CHECK OUT OUR CALENDAR FOR UP TO DATE TRAINING INFORMATION!
 
Mark Your Calendars for In-service Trainings in 2012!
  • January 14, 2012:  Kearney
    • Sara Goscha:  DHHS Policy & Regulations
    • Jackie Meyers:  Attachment & Parenting
  • February 11, 2012:  North Platte
    • Eileen Bisgard:  Fetal Alcohol & Behaviors
    • Brenda Nelson:  Attachment & Parenting
      • Our children's behavior and why they act as they do
      • Attachment parenting/Theraplay
      • Caring for the caregiver
  • February 11, 2012:  Gretna -
    Cancelled, it has been rescheduled for August 4, 2012.  See below.
  • March 17, 2012:  Scottsbluff
    • Eileen Bisgard:  Fetal Alcohol & Behaviors
    • Brend Nelson:  Attachment & Parenting
      • Our children's behavior and why they act as they do
      • Attachment and parenting/Theraplay
      • Caring for the caregiver
  • April 14, 2012:  Grand Island
    • Derek Clark: Never Limit Your Life  (for parents and teens)
      • Derek Clark, international speaker, singer/songwriter suffered severe child abuse.  Derek was in foster care for 13 years and identified as a high risk youth.  He now empowers others and shares his message of hope. 
      • Teens are encouraged to attend (ages 13-18)
         
  • June 2, 2012:  Hastings
    • TBA
  • June 2, 2012:  North Platte
    • TBA
  • August 4, 2012: Gretna - 
     Due to illness, we have rescheduled Beth Thomas's workshop from February 11, 2012 to August 4, 2012. 
    • Beth Thomas: Child of Rage (See You Tube for preview)
      • Once labeled the "Child of Rage", Beth Thomas is a graduate of the University of Colorado in pediatric nursing, author, and international speaker. She shares her experence and wisdom with love and laughter.
      • Beth gives hope in a hopeless situation, empowering parents with a positive vision for their child's future.
      • Insight into the mind of a child with RAD
      • 12 Step Parenting Plan for healing
      • Hope for the future
Each in-service training will offer up to 6 hours of training.  Registration required.  Click on each training for individual registration form or use this:   2012 Foster Parent Registration Form


GRETNA ONE DAY

CONFERENCE

 

We had a wonderful conference in Gretna on October 29, 2011 at the Good Shepard Lutheran Church.  Foster & Adoptive families received up to 6.5 hours of in-service training and were able to network with each other.  Workshops were Advocating for Your Child in Juvenile Court, Independence is Taught...not caught, Panel of former wards and Struggle For Identity:  Masting Race + Adoption in Transracial Parenting.  A soup lunch was provided.  We hope to see you at a future training!!!

 

                         Spaulding Training
        "Making the Commitment to Adoption"

The Spaulding program is offered to prosepctive adoptive families.  We had this 12 hour training in Kearney and Scottsbluff over the first weekend in November.  Many families attended.  Another training is not scheduled at this time.  
 
 
            


Lincoln On Day In-Service Training
3901 N. 27th Street
(Center for People in Need Meeting Room)
August 20, 2011

NFAPA had a wonderful one day training on August 20, 2011.  Sara Goscha from DHHS talked about Policy and Regulations; Tammy Hereth discussed the Importance of Birth & Foster/Adoptive Family Relationships and Josh Kroll from North American Counsil on Adoptable Children (NACAC) presented on three workshops Adoption, Advocacy and the Tax Credit.  We had a packed room for this conference and was enjoyed by all. We hope to see even more at the Gretna One Day Conference in October.   

 

NFAPA Annual Membership Meeting/Training
 Hastings
July 16, 2011

 NFAPA had its annual membership meeting in Hastings on July 16th. We included a 6 hour in-service training. 

Speakers included Tom Osterbuhr  who talked about raising independent children and how to focus on the positives in our lives and Jodi Ortman, our Region 7 VP of the National Foster Parent Association, who talked about Reactive Attachment Disorder.  We hope these wonderful speakers will return for future workshops!


Tom Osterbuhr and Pam Allen, NFAPA Executve Director

 

THE HASTINGS AND SCOTTSBLUFF ONE DAY CONFERENCES WITH RICHARD DELANEY, PHD WERE A HUGE SUCCESS!  WE HAD OVER 100 PARTICIPANTS ATTEND ON THIS VERY BUSY WEEKEND. 

FOSTER & ADOPTIVE PARENTS WERE ABLE TO LEARN ABOUT THE MULTIPLY IMPACTED CHILD.  HE ADDRESSED ADOPTIVE PARENTING ISSUES, HOW TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF WHY CHILDREN BEHAVE AND HOW TO APPROACH PROBLEMS.

HIS INTERACTIVE PRESENTATION ALLOWED FAMILIES TO ASK SPECIFIC QUESTIONS AND ADDRESSED POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS.

FAMILIES WERE ABLE TO RECEIVE 6 HOURS OF TRAINING FOR ATTENDING.