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County-based Workshops

NEW Schedule and Workshop Descriptions
for 2008 Listed Below!

1. We encourage you to pre-register with FAFS if you plan to attend a workshop, especially if you are bring a child to the TAD training. We want to know whom to reach if we have an emergency. To pre-register:

Call FAFS Hotline: 1.800.222-0047.
or
Register below

2.Please arrive promptly at the designated workshop site. Late arrivals will not receive training hours.

3. A reimbursement is given to licensed NJ resource parents attending and completing each FAFS county workshop. In order to receive the reimbursement, a registration form must be completed at the workshop. The following information will be needed: name, address, telephone number, and your NJ Resource Family license number.

4. Flyers announcing individual county-based trainings will be sent to resource parents of that county.

5. Remember, you can attend a workshop in any county. If you attend two workshops in two different counties with the same topic, you will only receive credit once.

6. In case of inclement weather, call the toll-free FAFS Hotline: 1.800.222.0047 to see if the scheduled training will be conducted.

Schedule for 2008

COUNTY

DATE/TIME

TOPIC

LOCATION

Atlantic	3/20/08 6-9 pm	Tobacco,Alcohol and Drugs	Atlantic County Library 451 Egg Harbor Road, Hammonton 08037
Bergen	TBA	Permanency Planning	Bergen South Local Office 125 State Street 2^nd Flr. Hackensack 07601
Burlington	3/10/08 6-9 pm	Permanency Planning	First Methodist Church 25 Brainerd Street Mt Holly 08060
Camden	4/8/08 6:30-9:30pm	Permanency Planning	Voorhees DYFS Office 201 Laurel Road, Voorhees, NJ 08043
Cape May	4/16/08 6-9 pm	Permanency Planning	Martin Luther King Recreation Center 209 W. Main Street, Whitesboro 08252
Cumberland	4/23/08 6-9 pm	Permanency Planning	Vineland YMCA 1159 East Landis Avenue Vineland 08360
Gloucester	3/31/08 7-10 pm	Permanency Planning	Mantua Methodist Church 201 Mantua Blvd, Mantua 08081
Hudson	3/18/08 1-4 pm	Permanency Planning	Jersey City Public Library 489 Bergen Avenue, 2^nd Fl. J.City, 07305
Hunterdon	4/7/08 7-10pm	Permanency Planning	Hunterdon Local Office 84 Park Avenue 2^nd Flr, Flemington 08822
Mercer	4/8/08 7-10 pm	Permanency Planning	St. Gregory the Great Catholic Church 4620 Nottingham Way, Hamilton NJ 08690
Middlesex	3/20/08 6-9 pm	Permanency Planning	Foster and Adoptive Family Services Suite 140 Monmouth Junction 08852
Monmouth	4/19/08 1-4 pm	Permanency Planning	Middletown Library 55 New Monmouth Rd, Middletown 07748
Morris	3/19/08 6:30-9:30pm	Permanency Planning	Morris Local Office 855 Route 10 East, Randolph 07869
Newark	3/25/08 6-9 pm	Permanency Planning	Community Hills 85 Irvine Turner Blvd, Newark NJ 07103
Ocean	5/6/08 6:30-9:30 pm	Permanency Planning	Ocean County DYFS Local Office 1510 Hooper Avenue, Toms River 08753
Passaic	3/13/08 6-9pm	Permanency Planning	St. Joseph�s Hospital- Mayer Room 224 Hamburg Turnpike, Wayne 07470
Salem	4/30/08 6-9 pm	Permanency Planning	The Penns Grove-Carney Point Library 222 South Broad Street, Penns Grove 08069
Somerset	4/24/08 6:30-9:30 pm	Permanency Planning	Somerset Medical Center-Hamilton Wing Conf Room 110 Rehill Avenue Somerville 08876
Sub.Essex	TBA	Permanency Planning	1^st Unitarian Church of Essex 34-37 Cleveland Street Orange 07050
Sussex	4/28/08 6:30-9:30 pm	Permanency Planning	Newton DYFS Local Office-1^st Floor 20 East Clinton, Newton NJ 07860
Union	4/18/08 10:30 am- 1:30 pm	Permanency Planning	Union W. Local Office -4th Floor Conf. Rm. 200 West 2nd Street,Plainfield 07060
Warren	3/17/08 6-9pm	Permanency Planning	Harmony Presbyterian Church 2727 Belvidere Road, Harmony 08865

Workshop Descriptions

TAD - Tobacco, Alcohol, & Drugs
Children 9yrs old and older are invited to attend!

Telling children and young people to JUST SAY NO to drugs is not enough. They should be encouraged to reject drugs because they believe that it is the right thing to do, not just because they have been told to say no.

This workshop will provide a safe and encouraging environment supporting foster parents and adoptive parents in their efforts to talk and keep talking to their children. Parents will gain a clear unerstanding of the challenges that children in placement face as we openly and honestly discuss tobacco, alcohol and drug addictions, including the use of substances such as inhalants and steroids. The children will explore the differences between wise and unwise choices and will be given the opportunity to practice prevention techniques to successfully resist the use of TAD.

This program contains some graphic images of the effects of drug use and may be disturbing to some audience members. Children from the age of nine are invited to take part in this county-based workshop; please call to register your kids, however, you need not bring a child to participate!

3 hrs. in-service training credit - Registration for this workshop is requested!

On Solid Ground:
Permanency Planning For Children in Care

This workshop will not only look at the available methods and procedures used for achieving permanency in the life of a child in care, but, also explores the critical psychological and social impact on a child when permanency is not achieved within a reasonable time frame.

The course also addresses the role of the resource parent as an advocate for permanency and offers insights into the resulting feelings of loss that may be present when a child achieves a permanent home with someone other than the resource parent who has been involved with the child's care.

3 hrs in-service training credit - Registration for this workshop is suggested!