Programs
Comprehensive training and implementation programs: A variety of packages are available on the 3-5-7 Model, developed in response to the unique needs of each state, county and/or organization.
TWO-DAY PROGRAMS provide the opportunity for a comprehensive overview, consisting of theoretical concepts that support the model and tools for practice implementation. This includes activities on Life Book development and engagement strategies for working with children and youth. In addition, participants are challenged to increase awareness on how to allow children and youth to do the work of grief and attachment.
SUPPLEMENTAL CONSULTATIONS are recommended for implementation planning and applications specific to agency and organizational practices. This is accomplished through the use of case reviews that demonstrate the experiences for children and youth, families, workers and administrations to assure permanency for children and youth.
STRATEGY MEETINGS for organizational change are facilitated within agencies and between public and private agency providers to assist in implementing the concepts of the 3-5-7 Model.
KEYNOTE and WORKSHOPS topics include:
- Giving voice to children and youth: letting them do the work
- Becoming practitioners to the feelings of children’s grief
- Belongingness: connections and permanency
- What is the 3-5-7 Model?
- Resource parent preparation for children and youth grief work
- Life Books, Life Lines and Life Maps
- Actualizing future for children and youth who hurt
Training and consultation on the 3-5-7 Model supports the work of states incorporating practice change in response to CFSR results, court improvement programs, Family Finding activities and Family Group Decision Making conferences, to prevent placements and/or minimize the number of days in care. It also provides another practice approach to working with children and youth who have experienced profound losses as a result of abuse and neglect and who have live in out-of-home care as a result of separations from families.
