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CFR believes that high quality training and technical assistance enhance the child welfare and family
court systems' ability to make difficult decisions about which children can remain safely with their
families, or if removed, can return home safely. Our training and technical assistance
focuses on how best to deliver effective services to families, how best to help them heal and reconnect
if separated and how to insure that once stabilized, a family does not find itself in crisis again.
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Before CFR was established, no one organization offered such a wide variety of training and technical
assistance existed. The few involved in extensive training were training their own staffs;
there was no "one stop shop" assisting with issues ranging from referrals to Spanish-speaking therapists
and parenting classes for a special needs child.
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CFR's training and technical assistance includes a range of programs, from brief, lunch time
roundtables to day-long seminars, to series that take place over a several weeks and we tailor our
presentation to our audience. In the past we have trained the following groups: parents;
youth in foster care; attorneys representing ACS, foster care agencies, children and parents; service
providers (such as drug rehabilitation counselors); foster care workers; CASA workers; a variety of
Family Court staff including judges and referees; and community agencies serving families, such as
Harlem Children's Zone. Our training staff provides materials, facilitate discussions, and
usually include simulation work to help enhance the audience's ability to understand and help families
involved in the child welfare and court system. Recent popular training topics have included:
The Adoption and Safe Families Act; the Permanency Bill of 2005; Visiting Arrangements that Support Children
and Families, Regulations that Govern agency obligations to children and families.
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Our staff is available daily to field phone and email requests from individual professionals on any
issue that arises for a family during a crisis or family court case: from which programs
exist in a family's neighborhood to how to draft litigation papers to achieve court orders for better
services for families.
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Since the program's inception, accomplishments include:
- Conducting over 125 training sessions for attorneys, caseworkers, community advocates,
families and even judges reaching more than 3600 practitioners and service providers
- Becoming Accredited as a New York State Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Provider
- Teaching more than 60 sessions for family court attorneys sponsored by The Supreme Court
Appellate Divisions in the First and Second Department
- Traveling to Washington State at the request of the Annie E. Casey Foundation to provide
technical assistance to child welfare workers trying to develop innovative approaches to
family visiting
- Providing more than 650 hours of technical assistance to attorneys representing indigent
parents and children via phone consultations, document reviews and provision of sample papers
- Training, for three consecutive years, The Juvenile Rights Practice of the Legal Aid Society
on service regulations, visits that support families and collaborative legal work on behalf of families
- Serving as faculty for the Child Welfare League of America and the Practising Law Institute
- Providing over 20 technical assistance sessions on parent engagement and visiting to foster
care agency staff citywide
- Training Law Guardians and parents' attorneys from around the state at the request of the
Third and Fourth Departments and the New York State Defenders Association
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For sample toolkits developed by CFR, click here.
For more information on training and technical assistance, contact us at info@cfrny.org
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