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Family Check-Up® Training

 

For organizations seeking to implement the Family Check-Up® either in-person or via telehealth, NPS supports individual and organizational capacity-building with eLearning, webinar-based skills training and personalized coaching. 

Provider training is available for both individuals and groups. Supervisor/Trainer Certification is offered to providers who will be supporting implementations with fidelity by a larger organization or community with program implementation.

Level 1:  Knowledge Base Training - E-Learning Courses are available for any professional seeking CEUs and/or interested in a general introduction to the model.  E-learning consists of 15 to 20 hours of self-paced learning and evaluation.

Level 2:  Implementation Training and Support - Following completion of e-learning courses, Provider Training is offered to individuals or groups in an agency who intend to begin offering the Family Check-Up® with families.  Interactive webinar sessions are provided to small groups who apply the content learned through the e-learning courses through practice and role plays.  These sessions are followed by individualized or small group consultations, as well as access to thefamilycheckup.com resource portal (the FCU Portal).  The FCU Portal enables provider access to the latest assessment tools, handouts, example videos, and other resources that support model delivery.

Completion of Level 2 training, including prep time to review materials, requires approximately 15 hours. 

In addition to provider training, implementation support and guidance is provided to the individuals or agency.

NOTE:  Level 2 provider training is not considered sufficient to sustain fidelity over time.  To sustain implementation with fidelity at an organizational or community level, NPS offers Certification of Supervisor-Trainers.

Level 3:  Sustainability Training and Support - Certified Supervisor-Trainers are necessary for any organization or community to sustain implementation of the Family Check-Up® with fidelity. A Certified Supervisor-Trainer is recognized by the UO/NPS as qualified to train and supervise new providers at their site and enables agencies to reduce long-term costs of training or re-training providers working on their team.  Time required to complete Level 3 training is tailored to the candidate for Certification and can vary widely, ranging from 20 to 25 hours for typical providers.   Certification is associated with individuals, not agencies, and retains validity in cases where a Supervisor-/Trainer changes their place of employment.

Sustaining Fidelity:  Key ingredients of any implementation that seeks to demonstrate fidelity over time include:

  • Maintaining Supervisor-Trainer Certification: recertification is required to be completed within 2 years of the last date of Certification, and every 2 years thereafter. 

  • Using the COACH fidelity tool to review sessions completed by providers;

  • Documenting fidelity using internal management systems 

  • New providers receiving complete training in the FCU model via the e-learning courses followed by delivery of the webinars by their Supervisor-Trainer

About the Family Check Up®

 

The Family Check-Up® is for any parent or any provider working with parents. The model has been used successfully in diverse service settings, including community mental health agencies, publicly funded health centers, public schools, hospitals, university clinics, and Native American tribal communities.

30 years of research with thousands of families from diverse economic and cultural groups show the Family Check-Up®:

  • Increases use of positive parenting

  • Strengthens parent-child relationships

  • Reduces family conflict

  • Reduces parent depression

  • Improves school readiness

  • Reduces child problem behaviors

  • Improves child emotional regulation

  • Improves academic achievement

  • Improves school attendance

  • Decreases child substance use through the young adult years

Prevalent diagnoses used with younger children in community health receiving the Family Check Up are Oppositional Defiant Disorder, General Anxiety Disorder, and ADHD.

 
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Everyday Parenting©

 

Grounded in behavioral parent skills training and 30 years of research, the Everyday Parenting© curriculum provides a valuable guide to help practitioners work collaboratively with parents to improve parenting and family management skills, based on goals established by parents. With regard to being an evidence-based program, Everyday Parenting© is considered to be part of the Family Check-Up® model.

This session-based approach is divided into three areas of skills grounded in the concept of mindful parenting: supporting positive behavior, setting healthy limits, and building family relationships by helping parents change interaction patterns that occur daily in families and relationships. 

The Everyday Parenting© curriculum is an adaptation of the social learning approach to parent training and family intervention and is based on years of research showing that behavioral parent training reduces mental health problems in children across the lifespan. The curriculum emphasizes ways to support changes in family social interaction patterns to help reduce problem behavior and mental health concerns, including depression, anxiety, and aggressive behavior, in children and adolescents.

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E-Learning

 

E-learning modules provide an orientation to the Family Check-Up® and Everyday Parenting© methodologies and are available via ASU Continuing Education. E-mail Northwest Prevention Science with information about your learning objectives and for group discounts.