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Sharing What Works: CFR's Training and Technical Assistance
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Our training and technical assistance focuses on how best to deliver effective services to families,
help families heal and reconnect if separated, and, once a family is stabilized, help insure that parent
and child do not again experience a child welfare crisis.
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Before CFR existed, no one organization offered such a wide variety of training and technical assistance.
There was no "one-stop shop" assisting with issues ranging from how to find parenting classes for a special
needs child to how to draft motion papers to secure needed services for families. Since its
inception, CFR has provided more than 160 training and technical assistance sessions, reaching more than 4,000
people.
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Our training programs range from brief, lunchtime roundtables to all-day seminars and longer programs.
We have trained parents, youth in foster care, attorneys representing ACS, foster care agencies, service providers
(such as drug rehabilitation counselors), foster care workers, CASA workers, a variety of Family Court staff
including judges and referees, and community agencies that serve families. CFR provides materials,
facilitates discussions, and usually includes simulation work.
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CFR's staff provides training throughout the city, state, and across the country.
Recent accomplishments include:
- CFR's Executive Director presented our interdisciplinary model of assistance to local and state
officials in the state of Vermont
- For the second year in a row, CFR's Deputy Director was co-chair of the Children's Law Institute, an
annual teach-in for family court practitioners who represent agencies, children, and parents from the
city and the region
- For the fourth year in a row, CFR staff trained new law guardians, city and statewide, and this
year also began training attorneys working for ACS
- CFR's Deputy Director was named to the faculty of the Summer 2008 Judicial Training Seminars, for
family court judges from around the state
- For the third year in a row, CFR social work staff trained staff in ACS's own parenting skills programs
- CFR designed a curriculum and training series on working with families separated by incarceration,
for staff at Court Appointed Special Advocates
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For sample toolkits developed by CFR, click here.
For more information on training and technical assistance, contact us at info@cfrny.org
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