Foster Care Training

Training will focus on assessing a system’s readiness to provide client-centered services, the identification of a system’s motivation points, and the use of O.A.R.S (open-ended questions, affirmations, reflections, and summaries) and values work to elicit/enhance system readiness. Examine the common systems with which clients need to engage (Department of Social Services, probation departments, schools, benefits agencies, medical service providers) and the establishment of the system’s motivation type. Practice assessing system readiness utilizing Prochaska and DiClemente’s Stages of Change and the identification of sustain and change talk. Multiple breakout sessions in which participants will practice the use of O.A.R.S to increase system readiness/client access to quality care. Please register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/motivational-interviewing-and-systems-tickets-440667617707