Foster children present unique safety issues in and out of the home. Michael F. Quinn, M.A., social worker, foster family agency supervisor and safety expert, offers insight into challenges faced daily by foster caregivers. His sound, practical advice gives parents the tools they need to develop and implement safety plans for the home and off-site environments. This course also covers collection of pre-placement information, preparing the home for the foster child, developing house rules, making in-home observations and safety adjustments, developing off-site safety plans, reporting unusual incidences, and working with a childcare team.

Running Time: 37 min

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These handbooks are a blending of time-tested and recently developed casework strategies. Increasingly, group home children and foster home children reflect throught their behaviors the struggles of society at large.

The aim of A Handbook for the Private Agency Caseworker is to help train the private-agency caseworker who is constantly on the move and adapting to the challenges presented by the dynamics of the childcare system.

The aim of A Foster Parent's Handbook is to provide guidelines. More and more, foster children mirror, through their behaviors, the social ills with which our society is struggling. We need committed and well-trained foster parents, now!

The aim of A Handbook for the Group Home Worker is to provide the reader with effective strategies for supervising group home children, emphasizing a team approach.

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