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Learning To Communicate: Developing Social Skills

May 9, 2023 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm CDT

Learning to Communicate: Developing Social Skills will equip parents to understand the process of communicating with children, teaching children to communicate with adults and peers, and developing interpersonal social skills. It offers strategies and ideas to help parents and children communicate with each other more effectively and offers strategies to help children in care specifically.

After completing this training, participants will be able to:

  • Utilize strategies to assist children in developing effective communication skills and communicate with their children more effectively.
  • Articulate types of social skills and assist children in developing these skills.

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.