Foster Care Training

With power point and lecture, trainers will discuss common challenging behaviors, particularly lying and stealing by foster youth. A behavior is defined as “challenging” when it is of such an intensity, frequency, or duration as to threaten the quality of life and/or the physical safety of the individual or others and it is likely to lead to responses that are restrictive, aversive or result in exclusion. Trainers will discuss the origins of these behaviors; as well as methods that can be implemented by resource and other care staff to reduce or eliminate these behaviors. Trainers will also discuss “observable and measurable” to be used with any particular behavior – as a means to devise an implementable treatment plan to reduce undesirable behaviors.