FREE IN-DEPTH TRAINING Become a facilitator in After Deployment: Adaptive Parenting Tools (ADAPT) WHAT: Train to become a facilitator in ADAPT, a treatment and prevention intervention for military families WHO: Professionals who work with children and families suffering from trauma (do not need to be a licensed clinician). WHY: The ADAPT program has been shown through rigorous research to be an effective way to help parents improve the lives of traumatized children. Becoming a trained PMTO facilitator is also an excellent professional development opportunity. WHEN: August 7-10, 2017 and September 11-14, 2017 WHERE: Institute for Translational Research in Children s Mental Health University of Minnesota 1100 Washington Ave S., Minneapolis, MN 55415 RSVP OR LEARN MORE: Informational call-in session: Thurs., March 30, 11 a.m. CST 1.888.296.6500 Code: 488715# WebEx: https://dukemed.webex.com/meet/crf30 Questions/RSVP: Chris Bray at bray0021@umn.edu
Overview of Training Why ADAPT? Parents are their children s best teacher. A large body of research shows that strengthening parenting skills has enormous benefits for traumatized children, parents and families, and that these benefits only grow over time. Parenting interventions have been widely validated with families exposed to traumatic events such as interpersonal violence, war, military deployment, and maltreatment. After Deployment: Adaptive Parenting Tools (ADAPT) is a Parent Management Training program for military families and was originally developed for National Guard and Reserve (NG/R) families, as these families face disparities in access to military-sensitive traumainformed services, and NG/R service members are at higher risk for mental health problems including suicide. ADAPT has been tested in randomized trials. ADAPT can be delivered in multi-family group (prevention), individual family treatment, and online formats and can be delivered in homes, clinics, schools, or community settings. Group prevention consists of 14 weekly sessions, approximately 90 minutes in length, while individual family treatment ranges from 4-9 months (weekly sessions, 45-60 minutes in length). ADAPT facilitator training occurs in two workshops followed by weekly coaching. Who should attend? The training is intended for anyone who works with, or is training to work with, children and parents in service system settings. Facilitators do not need to be licensed clinicians
Details The training workshops will be held at the Institute for Translational Research in Children s Mental Health, University of Minnesota, 1100 Washington Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55415 ADAPT Facilitator training occurs in two workshops: Workshop1 training dates are Monday, August 7 through Thursday, August 10, 2017 from 8:30am to 4:30pm; Workshop2 training dates are Monday, September 11 through Thursday, September 14, 2017 from 8:30am to 4:30pm. Afterward, attendees will participate in weekly coaching calls. To be accepted, participants MUST agree to attend both sessions, coaching calls, and have the ability to implement their first use of ADAPT after the second workshop. Training in ADAPT is offered at no cost, but all travel-related expenses are the responsibility of the attendee. Applications need to be emailed to bray0021@umn.edu no later than May 5, 2017. Attendee confirmation letters will be sent out on May 19, 2017. Learn more by joining our information call Thursday, March 30 9:00 PT/11:00 CST/12:00 ET 1.888.296.6500 Code: 448715# Webex: https://dukemed.webex.com/meet/crf30
About the Center for Resilient for Resilient Families The Center for Resilient Families, a Category II Treatment and Service Adaptation Center in the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), under the direction of project director Abigail Gewirtz, PhD, LP and co-director Chris Bray, PhD, LP, is a partnership between Ambit Network at the University of Minnesota, and developers of evidence-based family programs at Arizona State University s REACH institute, Implementation Sciences International Inc. in Oregon, and the Research Consortium on Gender-based Violence. The Center aims to raise awareness of and increase access to family interventions that promote resilience in traumatized children and reduces disparities in service access, use, and training by targeting trauma-informed family interventions to isolated families: those with a parent deployed to war, Native American families on reservations, immigrant and refugee families, families involved in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems, and families in which a parent has been killed. The Center adapts and widely implements an array of five evidence-based parenting interventions, all of which have been tested and shown to be effective at strengthening resilience among traumatized families. These interventions are: Family check-up/fcu; the Family Bereavement Program/FBP; Parent Management Training-Oregon model/pmto, and its validated adaptations for military families After Deployment, Adaptive Parenting Tools/ADAPT and Latino immigrant families CAPAS. Developers will work closely with communities within and beyond the NCTSN to implement and sustain programs via learning collaboratives for providers serving our target family populations.
Meet the PMTO Faculty Abigail Gewirtz PhD, LP Professor and Director of the Center for Resilient Families Institute for Translational Research in Children s Mental Health University of Minnesota Molly Willer, PhD, LP Faculty, Institute for Translational Research in Children s Mental Health University of Minnesota Laura Rains, M.A., LCSW Faculty, International Sciences International, Incorporated (ISII) Luann Gray, LMSW Visiting Faculty, Michigan Community Mental Health
Included is an application for both organizations and individuals Please fill out both applications APPLICATION FOR THE CANDIDATE ORGANIZATION Organization Organization Name Street Address City State Zip Code Organization Mailing Address Organization Telephone Number NCTSN Funding Does your organization have funding through the National Child Traumatic Stress Network? Currently funded NCTSN grantee Previously funded NCTSN grantee Organization has not had funding through the NCTSN Contact First Name Last Name Position/Title Email Address Telephone Number
General Description of Organization Briefly describe your organization, including type, size, location, client population, and key referral sources. Specify the service systems where the at risk youth and families you serve reside; for example, juvenile justice, child welfare, education, child advocacy, etc. Describe your current treatment model, and whether your facility uses evidence based practices. State whether you are applying as a Single Agency or as a Partnership Team.
Describe prior experience team members have had with other treatments guided by a manual.
Target Population(s) Describe your target population(s) including: (1) urban or rural backgrounds; (2) pertinent characteristics of the target population (e.g., Native American military families); (3) settings in which the prevention intervention or treatment will be implemented (e.g. schools); and (4) number of families who may be eligible to receive the prevention intervention or treatment.
Parent/Caregiver Engagement Effective treatment implementation is dependent on engaging parents and caregivers. Briefly describe how your agency works to engage parents or caregivers to ensure they are partners in the intervention. Partnerships If your proposed team is a partnership between organizations, please describe the support system currently in place for delivering treatment. Additionally, please identify any barriers you foresee and suggest how you intend to address them.
Requirements for Participation in Program Please check all items that you agree to: All participating staff members will be attending the two workshops: August 7-10 and September 11-14, 2017 Your organization will begin implementation as soon as possible after the second workshop Facilitators will participate in weekly coaching calls and will agree to videotape their sessions Your organization will participate in collecting intake and outcome data Your organization will adhere to requirements for programmatic assessment and fidelity tracking Your site personnel will be apprised of the program implementation and efforts will be made to assure support is provided from all levels of the organization Staff Members to Attend the Training Please list each staff member to attend the training along with the specific information requested below. Please note that a minimum of two and a maximum of five staff members from each organization may attend. Name: Position/Title: TRAINEE #1 Choose One: Clinician Organization staff member Additional Team Member Email address: Telephone Number:
TRAINEE #2 Name: Position/Title: Choose One: Clinician Organization Staff Member Additional Team Member Email address: Telephone Number: TRAINEE #3 Name: Position/Title: Choose One: Clinician Organization Staff Member Additional Team Member Email address: Telephone Number: TRAINEE #4 Name: Position/Title: Choose One: Clinician Organization Staff Member Additional Team Member Email address: Telephone Number: TRAINEE #5 Name: Choose One: Position/Title: Clinician Organization Staff Member Additional Team Email address: Telephone Number:
INDIVIDUAL APPLICATION Each applicant should complete this page and submit with the organization application. Name: Position/Title: Choose One: Clinician Staff Member Additional Team Member Email address: Telephone Number: Group Experience Please describe your experience to date leading groups of adults parents. Please include information on The types of groups you currently conduct, the formal name of the group intervention, and what the group targets. How often are these groups conducted and in what setting (in classrooms, in therapy rooms, other).
Experience Conducting Manualized Programs Please describe your experience to date conducting manualized prevention intervention or treatment programs.