JEN’S PLACE PRESENTS TRAINER FRANK DELANO ON ‘THE REAL “MONEY IN THE BANK”: BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS WITH YOUTH IN CARE’

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FREE child & youth worker training opportunity august 1, 2013 - 10am - 4pm humber college - lakeshore campus to register, contact valerie fisher [email protected] or 705-440-3321 **register now as spaces are limited**

The Real “Money in the Bank”: Building Relationships with Youth in Care There are many different theories about what helps young people in care “get better” but very few would debate the importance of the power and have an impact on of relationships. In this highly interactive workshop the presenter will use his long held philosophy of “Money in the Bank” as a foundation in looking at techniques to build healthy relationships with children with an emphasis on the importance of just simple kindness… especially when a youth is acting in a way that would not instinctively raise that emotion in us. Participants will reflect on the importance of having relationship “money in the bank” with a child to draw out in times of crisis Frank Delano, LMSW! and Jill Shah, and speculate on how and when the young person may draw out that LPC [email protected] 914 “money” long after they leave care.!Topics covered include: -673-7802 About the Presenter: Frank Delano, LMSW was !**Qualities of a healthy adult-child relationship recently was the Director of the JBFCS Child Care **How do I get that “money in the bank”?? Training Institute, Director of the Herschel Alt Day Treatment Center and worked over 20 years as! a CYC **But, if I am kind won’t they just walk all over me? worker, Frank is an adjunct faculty member at the **Avoiding those dreaded power struggles we just knew we were too smart Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service to get into! and is a regular contract trainer with the University of Oklahoma. He has served on a National Task Force that **What about!the “kinder side” of the kids revised the Child Welfare League of America Standards of Excellence for children in residential group care in the **Keeping a crisis intervention therapeutic United States, and the CWLA National Residential **The importance of healthy boundaries Advisory Board. He is currently a member of the Board of the Association of Child and Youth Care **Stories to share