Name: Meaningful Visits: Supporting Families Through the Process
SKU: 19753
Availability: InStock

Description

This interactive workshop will provide participants the opportunity to learn ways to help support children and caregivers through the visit process with families and caseworkers. It will address barriers to meaningful visits, how to overcome those barriers, and how to manage the behaviors that may increase around visits. The workshop will also assist caseworkers in learning ways to make their monthly visits more meaningful.

Upon completion of the workshop participants will be able to do the following:

1. Identify ways to support children before and after visits
2. Identify ways to support foster parents in managing behaviors that may arise around visits
3. Assess and reduce barriers to make visits more meaningful

Sabrina Franks, M.S., BCBA

Sabrina is a Program Specialist with the State of Alabama Department of Human Resources (DHR) in the Office of Quality Child Welfare Practice. She is a graduate of Auburn University with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a Master’s degree in Applied Behavior Analysis. She has been a Board Certified Behavior Analyst since 2006. After working for Auburn University Master’s Program for Applied Behavior Analysis and Developmental Disabilities, she joined Alabama DHR in 2007. Sabrina has been teaching the Tools of Choice curriculum as well as working directly with families, children, and providers across the state. She and several others are dedicated to demonstrating the effectiveness of the Tools of Choice program on Alabama’s families and she had the outcomes published in the Research on Social Work Practice in 2013. She has served several terms on the Executive Board of the Alabama Association for Behavior Analysis and now will be serving her second term as President in 2018.

Jennifer Rios, BA

Jennifer Rios, BA, has worked for the Alabama Department of Human Resources for over 14 years. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology. Jennifer began her career as a Social Service Caseworker with Cleburne County primarily working with CANs. She was later promoted to Service Supervisor in Randolph County and supervised Foster Care, Licensing, CANs, APS and Family Preservation. Presently, Jennifer serves as a foster care consultant with the Family Services Division where she has been instrumental in negotiating and working out border agreements with Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi and Florida. She has been with the State Office for 2 years.