Time: 2 Hours Unit Overview: The purpose of Unit 3 is to explain how assessment is an ongoing and mutual process that is fully woven within the fabric of a licensing specialist’s job. Learning Objectives: Define ongoing and mutual assessment. Identify the phases of assessment and explain how these phases relate to the licensing process. Trainer Instructions and Script: Display Slide 2.3.34: Unit 2.3: The Role and Skills of Assessment (PG: 25) Say: The purpose of Unit 3 is to explain how assessment is an ongoing and mutual process that is fully woven within the fabric of a licensing specialist’s job. Display slide 2.3.35: Learning Objectives (PG: 25) Display slide 2.3.36: Foster Family Assessment (PG: 26) Say: As a licensing specialist, you have the important role of identifying caregivers who can manage the special challenges of fostering and placing children with the best-matched family. This great responsibility requires far more than a check-list; it requires insight, relationship-building, and hard work to identify and continue to build great foster parents. You need to understand the importance of and develop skills in deepened assessment so that you may have a complete picture of a foster parent's strengths and needs that will enable them to successfully help a child reach the outcomes of safety, permanency and well-being. Display slide 2.3.37: What is Assessment? (PG: 26)
Time: 2 Hours Unit Overview: The purpose of Unit 3 is to explain how assessment is an ongoing and mutual process that is fully woven within the fabric of a licensing specialist’s job. Learning Objectives: Define ongoing and mutual assessment. Identify the phases of assessment and explain how these phases relate to the licensing process. Trainer Instructions and Script: Display Slide 2.3.34: Unit 2.3: The Role and Skills of Assessment (PG: 25) Say: The purpose of Unit 3 is to explain how assessment is an ongoing and mutual process that is fully woven within the fabric of a licensing specialist’s job. Display slide 2.3.35: Learning Objectives (PG: 25) Display slide 2.3.36: Foster Family Assessment (PG: 26) Say: As a licensing specialist, you have the important role of identifying caregivers who can manage the special challenges of fostering and placing children with the best-matched family. This great responsibility requires far more than a check-list; it requires insight, relationship-building, and hard work to identify and continue to build great foster parents. You need to understand the importance of and develop skills in deepened assessment so that you may have a complete picture of a foster parent's strengths and needs that will enable them to successfully help a child reach the outcomes of safety, permanency and well-being. Display slide 2.3.37: What is Assessment? (PG: 26)
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