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Session 1: Tuesday 8/26 from 9-11 AM Central Time

 Session 2: Wednesday 8/27 from 9-11AM Central Time

Please plan to attend both sessions.

About the workshop

CARE Training is an online interactive workshop hosted via Zoom and is free to attend. Each session contains new content, so please plan to attend both sessions. Registration is capped at 25 participants. If you register and are then unable to attend, please let us know so we can give your spot to another participant. Certificates of attendance will be provided. Learn about the CARE workshop, audience and more below. View flyer.

What is CARE?

Our goal is for EVERYONE to use good behavior management and relationship building skills.

• Child-Adult Relationship Enhancement (CARE) is a trauma-informed prevention program for adults who work with children.
• This highly interactive workshop involves learning and practicing skills to help manage challenging behavior.
• CARE is based on principles of the well-known and effective intervention program of Parent Child Intervention Therapy (PCIT). CARE strategies are based on decades of research in child development and behavior management.

Who is CARE for?

Anyone who wants to interact with children in a positive and meaningful way!

• Parents and caregivers of young children
• Mental health providers, such as psychiatrists, therapy providers, case managers, attendant care, and respite workers
• Education professionals, such as teachers, headstart or daycare providers, paraprofessionals
• Medical providers, such as pediatricians/family medicine doctors, nurses, OT, PT, SLP
• Foster care caseworkers, foster parents, child victim advocates
• Support staff who come in contact with children

How does CARE work?

The interactive nature of the training means skills are taught and practiced, and participants are given individual feedback - all in real time.

• CARE uses the 3 P skills (Praise, Paraphrase, Point Out Behavior) to connect with children.
• Attendees will learn preventative strategies to do with children on a daily basis, to improve behavior and reduce tantrums!
• Strategies are taught for giving directions in a way that children are most likely to follow through.
• We also cover a set of ignoring techniques to redirect problematic behaviors.

CARE data:

Research shows attending CARE workshops leads to...
For children of attendees:

• Fewer behavior problems and less anxiety

For parents attending:

• Greater sense of empathy for their children
• Greater value for child autonomy
• Less use of ineffective discipline

For providers (including behavior specialists) attending:

• High quality
• Would recommend to colleagues
• Useful for those with and without behavior training/expertise
• Provides novel ways of teaching parents skills

Research:

Murphy et al., 2019. CARE: Expanding evidence-based child behavior management skills to an academic medical center. In The Behavior Therapist.

Schilling et al., 2017. CARE: A Randomized Trial of a Parent Training for Child

Behavior Problems. In Academic Pediatrics. Messer et al., 2018. CARE: A Brief, skills-building training for foster caregivers to increase positive parenting practices. In Child and Youth Services Review.

CARE Trainers:

• Leni Swails, PhD, Clinical Child Psychologist, University of Kansas Medical Center
• Alice Zhang, PhD, Board Certified Behavior Analyst-Doctorate, University of Kansas Medical Center

Contact us

Email questions to telehealthrocks@kumc.edu.

This training was made possible by grant U3I43512 from the Office for the Advancement of Telehealth, HRSA, DHHS.