HGTX Training: Child Development and Adoption

Join Heart Galleries of Texas for their post-permanency best practice training on child development and adoption.

Our two-hour training will provide knowledge and skills in best practices for working with children and families in foster care, adoption, and guardianship. This training is open to child welfare professionals working with children and families in foster care and adoption. Professionals working for the Department of Family and Protective Services, Single Source Continuum Contractors, CASA, post-permanency agencies, child placing agencies and those providing mental health services.

Objectives:

• Demonstrate understanding of childhood development;
• Identify how trauma, relational loss, and grief is experienced by children throughout development, and;
• Apply knowledge of adoption and development to your work with children and families

Presenters:

• Nelkasia Graves, M.Ed, LCPAA – Permanency Resource Specialist at the Texas Alliance of Child and Family Services (TACFS)

2 CEUs will be offered for attending this training

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