FIS Center for Family Success offers workshops on a full range of topics related to serving children and families. Most of our workshops offer clinical continuing education credits.
We have a selection of courses in Ethics and Cultural Competence.
We offer a 20-hour Certificate in Clinical Supervision, approved by the NJ Board of Social Work Examiners.
All workshops are 5 hours and offer5 CEHSunless otherwise indicated. Other workshop topics include:
Adolescents
Engaging Difficult to Engage Adolescents
Making the Grade: Transitioning from High School to College
Working with Adolescents: Examining Gender Differences
Working with Teens and Getting it to Work
Attachment
Attachment Issues in Children who have Experienced Multiple Placements
Foster Care and Attachment
Case Management: Integrating Case Management into Practice
Crisis Intervention: Theory and Techniques
Children
Building Self Esteem and Enhancing Social Skills in Children and Youth
Creative Interventions with School Age Children
Challenging Cognitive Distortions in Children
Children in Transition: Helping Children and Parents transition through Divorce and Death
Developmental Milestones in Children and Adolescents
Implementing Creative Therapeutic Interventions with Children and Youth
Kidstress: Helping Parents and Teachers to Help Kids Handle Stress
Teaching Social Skills to Youth
Climbing Up and Out of the Role of Victim: A Guide for Professionals and Survivors
Cultural Reciprocity
Cultural Competence 1: Providing Culturally Competent Work With Families
Celebrating Culture: Working with Latino Families
Cultural Competence 2: Culturally Competent Assessment and Treatment
Cultural Diversity: Immigrants and Refugees
Using a Cultural Lens to Understand Family Dynamics
Moving From Cultural Competence to Cultural Reciprocity
Navigating the "Coming Out" Process with LGBT Persons and Families
Documentation
Capturing your Work with Families
Developing Behaviorally Specific and Measurable Goals
How to Write with Clarity and Impact
Eating Disorders: How to Work with Eating Disordered Clients
Evidence Based Treatment with Families
Ethics
Ethics: Basics and Beyond
Ethics: Exploring Confidentiality in Clinical Practice (3 hrs)
Ethics: Confidentiality in Schools (2 or 3 hrs)
Exploring Confidentiality in Work with Children and Families
Ethics: Creating Ethical Work Environments
Ethics: Exploring the Ethical Boundaries of Our Personal and Professional Relationships
Ethics: Managing Ethical Boundaries with Colleagues and Supervisees
Ethics: Negotiating End of Life Issues
Ethics: The Supervisor/Manager as an Ethical Role Model
Families/ Family Therapy
Enhancing Family Communication and Conflict Resolution
Family Systems 1: Developing A Framework
Family Systems 2: Introduction to Systems Theories
Fundamentals of Family Assessment
Solution Focused Family Therapy
The Art of the Genogram: From Assessment through Termination
Using a Strength Based Approach to Empower Families
Family Violence
An Introduction to Work with Domestically Violent Families: Assessment and Structuring for Safety
Couples Therapy and Domestic Violence: When is it Safe to Proceed? (3 hours)
Interviewing Techniques when Assessing for Family Violence
Providing Safe and Effective Treatment When Working with Domestic Violence
Foster Care: Working with Foster Families Using a Systems Focus
Home Based Services: Structuring Home Visits for Effective Practice
Medication: A Clinician's Guide to Talking to Parents about Kids' Psychotropic Medications (3 hours)
Parenting
Infant Care Basics: Assisting Non-Parenting Social Workers with the Baby Basics
Parenting In a Developmentally Appropriate Context
Screaming, Shouting, Hitting: What To Do Instead
Performance Improvement
Putting the Person Back into Performance Improvement.
Recognizing Red Flags for Mental Health Issues in Children with Cerebral Palsy (2 hours)
Sexual Abuse in Families: Assessment and Preliminary Treatment Strategies
Substance Abuse
Substance Abuse: Assessment and Impact on Family Functioning
Working with Children from Substance Abusing Families
Supervision
Addressing Counter transference With Supervisees (3 hours)
Enhancing Supervisors' Conflict Resolution Skills
Exploring Supervisees' Personal Reactions to Domestic Violence
Fostering Competent Confident Supervisees: A Solution Focused Approach
Managing Staff for Effective Performance
Stress and Time Management Skills for Social Workers
Teambuilding
Teambuilding Strategies for Human Services Programs
The Supervisor/Manager as an Ethical Role Model
Skill Building
Building Self-Esteem and Social Skills
Family Stress and Anger Management Skills
Tools of the Trade: Teaching Skills to Families
Utilizing Pro-Active Anger and Stress Management Skills
Training
Creating Effective Training Presentations
Vicarious Trauma
Vicarious Trauma: When Helping Hurts
Examining Personal Reactions to Domestic Violence
Examining Personal Reactions to Family Violence (1.5 hours)
Training Fees:
A full day 5-hour workshop held at your agency is $1000 for the first 25 participants.Additional participants cost $40 per person, up to 40 participants.
Scheduling: Contact Maureen Braun Scalera LCSW at (973) 596-9300 or mbscalera@fisnj.org to schedule a Traveling Training or to obtain additional information.
