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Safety-Care for Families; Advanced Skills Part II

Westbrook Training & Resource Center 15 Saunders Way, Ste 700, Westbrook, ME, United States

Safety-Care for Families provides parents, family members and caregivers with the skills, interventions and confidence needed to improve behavior and to prevent, minimize and manage potentially dangerous incidents. Advanced Skills Part II topics include emergency physical intervention, one-person stability hold, two-person stability hold (optional), releasing from stability hold, recovery and debriefing.  Prerequisites: Essential Skills Part […]

Safety-Care for Families – Essential Skills

Westbrook Training & Resource Center 15 Saunders Way, Ste 700, Westbrook, ME, United States

This class is intended for parents/caregivers/family members, and is open to the public. Essential Skills topics include: collaboration with professionals, legal issues, challenging behavior, reinforcement, safety habits, managing your own behavior, differential reinforcement, antecedents to challenging behavior, triggers, signals, basic principles of de-escalation, and development of a comprehensive family safety plan. The course is free […]

Safety-Care for Families – Intermediate Skills

Westbrook Training & Resource Center 15 Saunders Way, Ste 700, Westbrook, ME, United States

Prerequisite: Safety-Care for Families - Essential Skills This class is intended for parents/caregivers/family members, and is only available to families receiving services through Woodfords, or families receiving services through agencies that are working closely with Woodfords. Intermediate Skills topics include: use of behavioral momentum to improve cooperation, advanced de-escalation strategies, management of weapons, basic physical […]

Safety-Care for Families – Advanced Skills

Westbrook Training & Resource Center 15 Saunders Way, Ste 700, Westbrook, ME, United States

Prerequisites: Safety-Care for Families - Essential Skills and Safety-Care for Families - Intermediate Skills This class is intended for parents/caregivers/family members, and is only available to families receiving services through Woodfords, or families receiving services through agencies that are working closely with Woodfords. Advanced Skills topics include: emergency physical intervention, one-person stability hold, two-person stability […]

Understanding Trauma

Virtual - Adobe Connect

This training will provide parents, foster parents, care providers and professionals with an understanding of trauma and its potential effects on children, as well as the coping strategies often used by children who have experienced trauma. Also discussed will be the importance of self-care, developing strategies for preventing burnout and secondary traumatic stress, as well […]

$25

Sexuality and Personal Boundaries for Parents/Caregivers

Virtual - Adobe Connect

Discussing sexuality and personal boundaries with children can be difficult for even the most confident parents. It can be even more challenging to have these conversations with children and adolescents with developmental disabilities. However, because research shows that children with developmental disabilities are at a higher risk of being sexually abused or exploited, it is […]

$25