Next FCFCAA Meeting
Thurs., March 3rd, 2011
Meet & Greet (with snacks!) starts at 6:30pm
Meeting from 7pm (sharp) to 8:30pm (approx)
At the Pennino Building on the 10th floor.
Come enter the lottery for expense-paid conference or training
(click here for the training lottery & conference flyer)
We are also taking nominations for officers for 2011/2012.
Here is your chance to help out all of the other foster and adoptive parents.
Child care is available if you RSVP by Tuesday, March 1st
RSVP to Terri Williams-Henderson at (703) 324-7481.
Upcoming Training Classes
We have LOTS AND LOTS of training classes coming up.
Click here for more information
Remember, each foster parent is required to have
10 hours of training per year to maintain your certification
(or 9 hrs of PRIDE training in the first year after your approval)
Speaking of training opportunities...
The CWLA National Conference
March 27th to 30th, 2011 in Crystal City
Child Welfare League of America's 2011 conference is entitled
State of Children & Families: Building an Effective National Voice
Conference programs count towards your training requirements.
http://www.cwla.org/conferences/default.htm
And even MORE training opportunities...
Risks and Rewards:
Treatment and Parenting Strategies for the Drug-Exposed Child
Saturday, April 30th, 2011 in the Fairfax County Gov't Center
ATTACH (Association for Treatment and Training In the Attachment of Children)
and Hope Villiage are bringing this training to Fairfax.
Download the flyer here (a PDF document)
Faces of Virginia
May 20-22, 2011 in Roanoke, VA
Keynote speaker David Pelzer, author of A Child Called It
Conference programs count towards your training requirements.
www.facesofvirginia.org/families
National Foster Parent Conference
June 25-27 in Mobile, Alabama
Foster Care: The Road to Permanency
Expense-paid trips available at the March 3rd FCFCAA meeting
Click here for conference info
DFS Policy Update and Resource News (Dec 2009):
The Fairfax County DFS (Department of Family Services)
has sent out a flyer outlining new policies and some
addtional resources that are being made available to
foster and adoptive families.
Click link above to download the flyer (PDF document, 79Kb)
New MANDATORY Training
Bridging the Gap is a training course to help foster families
build and maintain relationships with the birth families in order
to help the foster children both while in foster care and during
their return home. See our Training Calendar
for schedules and contact information.
FCFCAA HAS A NEW
US POST OFFICE MAILING ADDRESS
As of 16 October 2008 the mailing address has changed to:
FCFCAA
P.O. Box 2882
Springfield, VA 22152
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