CECO1006 ACT Parents Raising Safe Kids: Violence-Prevention Facilitator Certification

Course Description

Applicable Field: Psychologist, MFT, LCSW, RN

Credit Hours:  14

Adults and Children Together (ACT) Raising Safe Kids is the American Psychological Association's (APA) highly successful, evidence-informed* national violence-prevention program for parents and caregivers of children from birth to age 8. The ACT mission is to educate and mobilize families, professionals and communities to help prevent violence against young children before it starts. JFK University in Pleasant Hill, California, is the ACT Western Region Training Center and provider of the ACT Facilitator Training, serving social workers, case managers, counselors, therapists, psychologists, childcare workers, school counselors, teachers, law enforcement personnel, nurses, physicians and clergy. Successful completion of this Training prepares participants to deliver the eight-week ACT Raising Safe Kids program in their local communities. Workshop participants receive:

• First-hand experience of the ACT Raising Safe Kids curriculum
• All materials needed, in English or Spanish, to teach the eight week ACT Raising Safe Kids program
• A Facilitator Manual that includes simple, explicit instructions for delivering each lesson (in English or Spanish)
• Four supplementary guidebooks: Child Development, Children’s Anger, Positive Discipline, and Video Games & Online Safety (in English)
• A Parent Handbook with handouts, worksheets and homework assignments to help parents integrate and apply each week's lesson at home (available in English or Spanish)
• A CD-ROM of 300+ teacher resources, articles and parent tip-sheets (PDF format)
• A powerful 30-second teaching video that shows the impact of family violence on children (Flash format)
• Over 300 electronic teacher resources, research articles and parent tip-sheets on violence-prevention topics and special needs (i.e. foster parents, sibling rivalry, electronic media, etc.)
• Greater effectiveness in working with families and children
• Increased income opportunities for your agency or practice.
• Ideas for implementing the program in your own community
• A certificate of completion
• 14 hours of CE credit

I teach 10 classes a year to hundreds of Bay Area parents, and use the course material in my work with churches, jails, and local neighborhoods. I highly recommend this training for anyone looking to do more work with children, parents and families. - Julio Escobar, President and Founder, YOCAL (Youth Change Alternatives), San Francisco. The Trainers are JFK University faculty or professionals with advanced degrees who are actively working in the field of violence-prevention. Each is also a Certified ACT Raising Safe Kids Program Facilitator and has taught the program in their communities. *Research funded by the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and conducted in 2010 by the Battelle Centers for Public Health Research and Evaluation in Baltimore, MD, indicates that the ACT Raising Safe Kids Program is a successful model and curriculum to prepare professionals and other adults to disseminate early violence-prevention knowledge and skills.

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