Family for Keeps® Referral Line: 678-485-4810
Now Accepting Respite Care and Transition Care Referrals
Transition Care Home in Lilburn, Ga.
Working in Kentucky, with the medically fragile program, I feel that this information is very important for the workers to have. Some workers may not have a medically fragile case for years, and others may be new workers and not have much medical experience or knowledge with the medically fragile. Thank you for letting me participate! - D. Glenn, RN, State of Kentucky Child Protective Services
What part of this course did I find most valuable? EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!! - D. Mitchell Clarke, Meritan Foster Care
Dream House Family for Keeps® Professional eCourse teaches the non-medical professional how to make sound decisions regarding the placement and supervision of a child with complicated health care conditions.
Eligible for 12 CEUs Register Now
Ideal for Case Supervisors/Managers and Social Workers, this course offers, on your own time, the opportunity to learn more about these children and their needs. The Family for Keeps® Professional eCourse is a training resource not available elsewhere. Through actual case scenarios, participants will delve into the family needs, and what is required to support the child and family for more successful outcomes.
Family for Keeps® Professional eCourse highlights:
- Created to address, "you don't know what you don't know," about the specialized needs of medically complex children and the families caring for these children in home environments.
- Documentation tips and tools to enable "best placement" decision-making.
- Downloadable forms for home studies, home safety check-lists and court reports.
- Course length is 10 to 12 hours from start to finish. Participants may log in and out to resume the course on their own time table.
Additional eLearning modules, ideal for families and care givers, available Spring 2010.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
- Tools: Professional Resource Guide to Common Health Conditions of the Medically Fragile Child, a copyrighted reference guide created for ease of use when timing is critical (one copy per paid course) Click Here to purchase additional copies
- Definition of a medically fragile child
- Challenges of caring for a medically fragile child
- Addressing the challenges of training, support, and resources
- Understanding how the body works
- Assessing the child to identify placement needs
- Assessing the family to evaluate effectiveness and stability of placement
- Assessing the home and community to identify resources and make appropriate referrals
- Documentation to facilitate communication among family members, agencies, the court and health care providers
Seeing a poster at work advertising the Dream House Family for Keeps® Transition Care Program, a social worker recognized an opportunity that had the potential of helping a young mother keep her child. Although unfamiliar with the Program, she was empowered to contact Dream House on this mother’s behalf and refer her for training – an action that kept this family together.
