In response to requests from our members for additional training options to support FRCs and Networks, CFRA is proud to offer three new training opportunities to help build capacity in the family-strengthening field and improve our collective impact. Please share these opportunities with interested colleagues and professional networks.
Advocacy 101 for FRCs: 3/9 @1pm; 4/27 @9pm; 5/11 @1pm; 6/22 @9am; 7/13 @1pm
Family Resource Centers can be agents of social change through a variety of advocacy efforts, from constituent education to lobbying. Join us to walk through the basics of advocacy, understand the differences between advocacy and lobbying, and how to influence policy in many ways.
Bringing Family Strengthening to Life in Your Work: An Introduction to the Protective Factors Framework 3/23 @9am; 4/13 @1pm; 5/25 @9am; 6/8 @1pm; 7/27 @9am.
The Strengthening Families Framework and its Five Protective Factors provide a common language widely adopted across organizations, networks, systems, and communities. Serving as a powerful bridge between service providers and families, the Framework and its Protective Factors offer practical tools that are readily integrated into programs, services, and systems. The Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) conducted significant evidence-based research on the Framework and the Protective Factors, providing a vigorous foundation that has notably contributed to the growing legitimacy of the family strengthening field.
Goals of the Introduction Course-
- List five protective factors that help keep families strong and prevent child abuse and neglect.
- Identify multiple key strategies and concrete everyday actions that help families build those protective factors.
- Understand what it means to work with families in a strength-based way.
Equity for Family-Strengthening Work: Courageous Conversations & Timely Tools 3/17 @1pm; 4/21 @9am; 5/19 @1pm; 6/16 @9am; 7/21 @1pm
This training will provide a space for introspection, shared understanding, and tools to advance the equity conversation in your family-strengthening work. Join us as we explore our own definitions of equity, how we begin to understand how it works within organizations, and concrete steps that can assist this process.
During this training and facilitated conversation, participants will:
- Develop a working definition of equity
- Identify differences between equity and equality
- Initiate inquiry into personal, professional, and social impacts of power, equity and inequity
- Introduce frameworks and tools for increasing organizational focus on equity.
Member registration is $25 and non-members $50. (Members will receive an email with promo code).
To register for the trainings visit the CFRA website.