Engagement with children and families may seem like a simple concept, but it is much more complex.  This training focuses on the importance of family engagement, which involves all aspects of interaction with youth and families in a deliberate manner to make well-informed decisions about safety, permanency, lifelong connections, and well-being. Family engagement is important to ensure the child’s safety, stabilize the child’s family when in crisis, prevent prolonged placement in foster care, and provide support for the child when ageing out of foster care placement is necessary. Tools and resources such as Xtreme Recruitment and Permanency Roundtables will be explored throughout the training.

• If you would like to attend one, please email us a savannah.price@st-francis.org
• Anyone is welcome to attend any ILC, regardless of their position.
• All ILCs are free.
• Please be sure to let us know if you need to cancel.
• If there are not 10 participants registered for each ILC 3 days prior to the ILCs, the ILCs may be cancelled.
• A few days prior to each virtual ILC, you will receive an email with the link to join the ILC
• If you need to miss more than 15 minutes of the training, please have a conversation with your trainer about receiving credit.

Please submit a short summary to your supervisor or certificate of completion (if received) to receive 2 hours on continuing education.