Caregiver Coaching

Caregiver Coaching Sessions are one-on-one sessions between you and a facilitator – designed to take your learning beyond the classroom setting, and to build specific skills relevant to your individual situation, at the time you need support.

Caregiver Coaching for Emerging Caregiver Needs

The topics covered may include:

  1. Understanding the child welfare system, regulations, expectations, and how to navigate available resources
  2. Navigating crisis
  3. Understanding and supporting child development
  4. Effective communication (with birth parents, extended family, social workers, and the child in your home)
  5. Self-care, secondary trauma, and healing
Caregiver Coaching for the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA)

The topics for this session may include:

  1. Understanding ICWA, regulations, and expectations DCYF staff must follow
  2. What is most important for caregivers to know (jurisdiction, Tribes’ voice in cases, connection for the child, etc.)
  3. Placement preference
  4. Active Efforts
  5. QEW (Qualified Expert Witness)
  6. LICWAC (Local Indian Child Welfare Advisory Committee)
  7. Permanency
Caregiver Coaching on Caregivers Report to the Court

You will understand the caregiver’s role in the court process and how to effectively communicate with the court and other parties through the Caregiver’s Report to the Court document. You will have the opportunity to compose an actual report about the child in your care with assistance from the Facilitator.

Caregiver Coaching on Family Time

You will explore your role in Family Time, including how you can support the child, and will more deeply understand the pivotal role that Family Time plays in supporting children’s relationships with birth families. You will gain skills to successfully team with others involved in the child’s Family Time, and will explore how to be a resource to birth families. Included in this session are activities that allow you to assess the effects of Family Time on the child(ren) in your care and create a plan to address any concerns which may arise in the future.

Caregiver Coaching on Kinship 101: Information for Relatives and Suitable Others

The topics for this session may include:

  1. Financial Needs
  2. Legal Challenges
  3. Navigating public service systems
  4. Needing more social services
  5. Information about resources/caregiving
  6. Positive Discipline
Caregiver Coaching on Positive Discipline

The topics covered may include a Positive Discipline response to any behavior identified in the Positive Discipline A-Z index. The intention of this coaching session is to help the participant apply the Positive Discipline lens and framework to issues that are currently coming up in their home. Participants must have attended at least one session of Positive Discipline training in order to utilize the coaching option.