Advanced Topics in Micro and Macro Social Work

The ACT Raising Safe Kids Program 2-day Facilitator Training is the introductory training to prepare child and family professionals to conduct the 9-week parenting training program, ACT Raising Safe Kids, developed and coordinated by the American Psychological Association Violence Prevention Office. The program is designed to have trained and certified professionals (ACT Facilitators) prepared to disseminate the ACT research-based curriculum and teach positive parenting skills and practices that create safe, nurturing, stable environments that prevent child maltreatment and its long term health, cognitive and behavioral consequences for children. The curriculum is based on knowledge about child development, the importance of relationships because abuse and violence happen in the context of relationships and the effectiveness of positive parenting skills and practices to prevent abuse.

This mini-course is the initial ACT 2-day training, which is designed to provide the skills for individuals to implement the ACT group-based program as facilitators with parents and community members. At this workshop, participants will acquire - through practice and simulations - the skills for how to teach parents the ACT program curriculum using motivational interviewing approach, supportive materials, facilitated discussions, group activities, role-plays, case studies, and pre-and-post-evaluation materials.