FREE ONLINE CARE TRAINING FOR RESIDENTIAL CARE, INSTITUTIONS AND FOSTER CARE
Here's a great tool for you - for building resilience and attachment based care organizations. Why?
In the US alone, more than 500.000 kids are placed outside home, in Europe 1.5 mio., and globally 143 million have lost contact with their parents. Their caregivers in foster care, institutions and orphanages have very few resources and no access to formal training. Instead of building resilience, more than half of these traumatized kids end up failing in school, never get a job, prone to abuse, lifelong attachment problems and social delinquency. We have a global challenge supporting the professional development and education of their caregivers!
As a Danish-American child psychologist, I decided in 2006 to gather a worldwide network of kids-at-risk researchers, and use our joint knowledge to design free online training and education program for staffs and leaders in attachment based resilience care - in all major languages.
The two programs have so far been tested for two years in 12 European countries by caregivers and leaders, funded by the European Union. Not only do they improve child development, they also provide caregivers with a common theory and practice foundation, and increase professional pride and knowledge, according to all feedback reports.
All you need is a group of caregivers, internet connection, a projector with sound connection for tutorial videos, and fifteen staff group meetings.
So far, you can find the training here: for infants and pre-school care, click Handbook for users and click the menu line for the 15 "sessions". Don't click any language flag, you're already in the English version. There's one in Spanish, too.
Training also for school age and teenage: foster care and institution programs - choose between Foster Care or Institution version, depending on your line of work, and also use the three Resource sessions about Children's Rights training, etc..
These programs are part of the global 3rd World project, where volunteer professionals around the world provide translations in developing country versions -learn about it from this video:
http://vimeo.com/60651610, from the site, or write fairstartglobal at Facebook or LinkedIn.
At Fairstartglobal, we'll provide free training for caregivers in developing countries in their native languages from Amhari to Urdu. It's already translated for use in Indonesia and standard for all staffs in their 8000 orphanages: Fair Start in Indonesia, and now spreading across Vietnam, Japan, Myanmar, reaching out to caregivers anywhere.
I cooperate with Pittsburgh University Office of Child Development - discussing effective interventions, we joined as editors of an upcoming special issue of Infant Mental Health Journal, and invited researchers in orphans worldwide to describe how their results support local government child policies and education/development in child institutions and foster care. Exciting: Editorial%20IMHJ%20PDF.pdf .
Here's a paper from Child and Youth Care, describing the use:Improving%20professional%20care%20Rygaard%20garfat%20%283%29.docx
Feel free to use the programs, and please pass on the training site links to any care unit in need of open source local training.
 If you want lectures, more info, or local trainer's training, here's my mail: npr@attachment.dk . I've been training people almost anywhere.
Lets join to provide professional care practices anywhere in the world!
Best from Niels, Denmark
