Building Positive Relationships with Caseworkers and Community Partners

Building Positive Relationships with Case Workers & Community Partners provides foster parents the information and tools needed to establish a positive working relationship with their caseworker and child’s caseworker, with the goal of providing the best possible continuum of care for the child.

After completing this training, participants will be able to:

• Work in partnership with social service workers and community partners to ensure the needs of the child(ren) in their home are being met and align with permanency goal(s).
• Utilize strategies to foster mutual respect, communicate effectively, and maintain appropriate boundaries.

ASK-VIP trainings are expressly designed to meet the needs of foster and adoptive parents. Skilled trainers who have lived experiences with fostering and adoption provide these trainings in a virtual group setting. There is 1.5 hours of ongoing, elective foster parent training credit available for Kentucky’s foster parents.

Create an account or log-in to register for this training. A reliable internet connection and a smartphone, tablet, or computer with web camera is needed to participate. If there are two adults in the same household that want to participate in this training, each person must register separately. Foster parent training credit is administered based on the duration of the meeting and each attendee’s participation. Training credit is only available if you have not participated in this training within the past twelve months.

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If you have any questions about this training or how to register, please email ask@uky.edu or call 859-257-7361.