Education, Training,
and Conferences
Conferences and Workshops
Family Check-Up and Everyday Parenting Institute
Family Check-Up Trainings
Training and Consultation
CFC Practicum
Family Check-Up and Everyday Parenting Institute
August 12-15, 2013
August 12-13: Family Check-Up
August 14-15 Everyday Parenting
Location: University of Oregon, Eugene
Registration opens: April 15, 2013
Final day for registration: August 2, 2013
The Family Check-Up training provides background, instruction, and practice in
- empirical evidence and foundation for the FCU model
- motivational interviewing techniques for initial contacts with caregivers
- systematic, ecologically based assessments of family strengths and challenges
- assessment-driven case conceptualization
- providing assessment-based motivational feedback
- goal setting
- selection of a menu of tailored follow-up implementation
Participants in Everyday Parenting training then learn about
- transitioning from feedback to family-tailored, follow-up behavioral intervention
- behavioral interventions to support parenting practices:
- use of positive behavior support
- limit setting and monitoring
- relationship-building skills
FCU and Everyday Parenting Trainings are designed for
- intervention scientists
- psychologists
- family therapists
- social workers
- program developers
- community mental health workers
- school personnel
- educators
- advanced graduate students
How to Register
For more information or to register:
Contact Nancy Weisel
Phone: 541.346.4645; email: nancyw@uoregon.edu
Cost Per Workshop
Professional rate with CEUs: $525
Professional rate without CEUs: $500
All payments must be made in full by end of the day, August 5, 2013.
Registration rates will increase on July 10, 2013
Rates per workshop will be:
$575 with CEUS
$550 without CEUs
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Family Check-Up Trainings
The Family Check-Up, which is central to the EcoFIT model, is
- an empirically validated clinical intervention designed by CFC researchers
- designed to effectively reduce problem behaviors and mental health problems in children and adolescents
- a strengths-based, assessment-based approach that is model-driven
- designed to increase caregiver motivation
- designed to link directly to various treatment modules within the broader EcoFIT model
- a tailored, adaptive intervention that meets the challenges of each family’s specific needs, including families from a variety of cultural backgrounds
- empirically validated with toddlers, school-age children, and adolescents with problem behaviors and with adolescent depression
Training in the Family Check-Up
Training in the Family Check-Up involves three steps:
- Needs assessment and consultation with our team. A member of our training team will work at your site to assess the need for site and staffing support and evaluate the level of training required, based on your plans.
- Training workshops. Training workshops are tailored and adapted to your site on the basis of the needs assessment. The workshops offer relevant training of intervention and supervisory staff. Initial training workshops range in duration from two to four days and may be delivered on site or at the Child and Family Center or at Arizona State University.
- Fidelity assessment and follow-up. Support is provided in the uptake of the model, including fidelity assessment and ongoing supervision and feedback.
General Workshop Training Model
The workshops provide a foundation in the EcoFIT model. Attendees are walked through each step of the model, from conceptualization to implementation of the intervention with various age groups. Continued consultation is available to address and support high-quality implementation.
The FCU Training Workshops provide instruction and practice in
- empirical evidence and foundation for the FCU
- motivational interviewing techniques for initial contacts with caregivers
- systematic assessments of family strengths and weaknesses
- assessment-driven case conceptualization
- feedback on assessments and motivating change
- selection of a menu of follow-up interventions
Workshop attendees also learn about
- transitioning from feedback to family-tailored, follow-up intervention
- tailoring the FCU to service delivery needs
- basic strategies for supporting skills and use of positive behavior support, limit setting and monitoring, and relationship-building skills based on the content of the Everyday Parenting Curriculum
The FCU Training Workshops are designed for
- intervention scientists
- psychologists
- family therapists
- social workers
- program developers
- community mental health workers
- school personnel
- educators
- advanced graduate students
For More Information:
Contact: Nancy Weisel, 541.346.4645, nancyw@uoregon.edu
Location: Child and Family Center, Eugene, Oregon; Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona; or at your site
Continuing education credits are available.
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CFC Practicum
The Child and Family Center houses a community clinic that serves children and families with mental health needs. The University of Oregon Counseling Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and School Psychology programs’ clinical practicum connects students with training at the CFC clinic, where their work focuses on providing interventions to children and families. Students enroll in the practicum for one year and have four or five families in their caseloads. They must successfully complete this part of their practicum sequence before they proceed to an internship. The university’s doctoral programs in psychology emphasize an ecological model of training, research, and practice, with a particular focus on prevention and treatment relevant to work with children, adolescents, families, and adults within their environments. As such, students combine theory and research with clinical practice.
Fifty to seventy-five families participate in the CFC clinic each year, and they pay for services on a sliding fee scale. Using the Family Check-Up model, doctoral students learn to deliver effective interventions to families in the community.
Dr. Jennifer Mauro’s clinical supervision ensures that the doctoral students receive adequate support for developing professional expertise, and that families and children benefit from these services. The participation of graduate students and undergraduate students in research and clinical service is integral to the success of CFC’s mission and to the success of families on the receiving end of that participation.
Dr. Elizabeth Stormshak, CFC director, teaches the CFC practicum program. Dr. Stormshak is a professor in the University of Oregon Counseling Psychology program.
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Student Trainees Play a Vital Role at CFC
