An online workshop offering parenting support through an evidence-based trauma informed model has been made available to the public.
It is the second workshop in a 5-part series hosted by the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) and the New York Foundling’s Vincent J. Fontana Center for Child Protection. All six workshops focus on positive parenting.
The one hour workshop, which is being hosted on Zoom, costs $20 (around £16) to join, but if you have any queries or questions or just want to ask if you might be able to attend free of charge, the contact for this event is Leslie, who can be emailed at Leslie.Schmerler@nyfoundling.org
The conference would be particularly beneficial to UK child welfare practitioners working with families.
We’re adding additional information found in the invitation below:
Workshop Description
This is the innovative, evidence-based, trauma-informed model Dr. Ross Greene describes in his influential books The Explosive Child, Lost at School, Lost & Found, and Raising Human Beings. The model represents a significant departure from discipline-as-usual: it focuses on solving problems rather than on modifying behaviour, emphasises collaborative rather than unilateral solutions, encourages proactive rather than reactive intervention, de-emphasises diagnostic categories, and provides practical, research-based tools for assessment and intervention.
Date & Time
April 26th, 2 pm to 3pm ET (7pm to 8pm UK time – we think)
Speaker Biography
Ross W. Greene, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and the originator of the innovative, evidence-based approach called Collaborative and Proactive Solutions (CPS), as described in his influential books.
He also developed and executive produced the award-winning documentary film The Kids We Lose, released in 2018. Dr. Greene was on the faculty at Harvard Medical School for over 20 years, and is now founding director of the non-profit Lives in the Balance. He is also currently adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at Virginia Tech and adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Science at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia.
Dr. Greene has worked with several thousand children with concerning behaviours and their caregivers, and he and his colleagues have overseen implementation and evaluation of the CPS model in countless schools, inpatient psychiatric units, and residential and juvenile detention facilities, with dramatic effect: significant reductions in recidivism, discipline referrals, detentions, suspensions, and use of restraint and seclusion.
We like how the acronym CPS has been turned on its head* – perhaps deliberately to shift the way social work professionals think about their role and what they are there to achieve for families.
*CPS in the UK refers to Child Protection Services, a term which has become filled with negative meaning, including the underlying notion that child welfare professionals are hostile and unwilling to collaborate with families. By contrast, Dr. Greene uses the acronym for Collaborative and Proactive Solutions, which has a far more positive and sophisticated tone.
Language matters.
Many thanks to the End Violence Global Partnership’s Professor Joan Durrant for sharing this workshop with Researching Reform.
Researching Reform 
A curious twisting and cycling of human existence.
1. Origination of life and the continuing development of ever more complex systems of physiology, psychology and collectives.
Everything leading up to the emergence of homosapiens.
2. ~ 400,000 years ago; No wars, no slaves.
the emergence of homosapiens,
with small ‘tribes’ ~ 30 people,
tribes are well spread apart,
interactions are concentrated within tribes
and much less frequent between tribes,
these tribes are egalitarian,
the people are very COLLABERATIVE with each other.
3. ~ 20,000years ago; Wars start, slavery starts.
Agriculture and the city states start developing,
POWER and CONTROL establishes two types of people.
The previous tribal mores (essential or characteristic
customs and conventions of a group)
are now subjugated by a developing system
of power and control called THE LAW.
An adversarial system that is analogous to combat.
4. The records of the last 6,000 years show ample
violence and abuse at state and individual levels.
Controlling of other people becomes a highly praised
achievement. There is great disparity in the fortune
of people and children.
5. 2023. Somebody says it is a good idea to bring
cooperation to the front of how humans should interact –
meaning the entrenched adversarial and bullying activities
of cps should be completely changed back to collaboration.
6. Fantastic idea. but (sorry)
why would the insecure bullies in cps agree ?
what stops predators evolving in this ‘new’ version ?
I seem to recall the dissipation of nasty cps in Arizona
and being replaced with ‘nice’ people,
only for the ‘nasty’ people to return to power – quickly.
7. My point ?
If you want to change things, you need to understand
the workings of them in as much detail as possible.
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