FREE IN-DEPTH TRAINING Become a facilitator in

Parent Management Training-Oregon model (PMTO)

WHAT: Train to become a facilitator in PMTO, a treatment and prevention intervention for parents of traumatized children

WHO: Professionals who work with children and families suffering from

trauma (do not need to be a licensed clinician).

WHY: The PMTO program has been shown through rigorous research to be an

effective way to help parents improve the lives of traumatized children. Becoming a trained PMTO facilitator is also an excellent professional

development opportunity.

WHEN: August 7-10, 2017 and September 11-14, 2017

WHERE: Institute for Translational Research in Children’s Mental Health

University of Minnesota

1100 Washington Ave S., Minneapolis, MN 55415

RSVP OR LEARN MORE: Informational call-in session: Tues., March 28, Noon CST

1.888.296.6500 Code: 488715# WebEx: https://dukemed.webex.com/meet/crf30

Questions/RSVP: Chris Bray at bray0021@umn.edu

Training overview

Why PTMO? Parents are their children’s best teacher. A large body of research shows that strengthening parenting skills has enormous benefits for traumatized children, parents and families, and that these benefits only grow over time. Parent Management Training- Oregon (PMTO) is a research-based “intervention” program that engages parents/adult caregivers as the agents of change to strengthen resilience of children from preschool to adolescence when children have been exposed to traumatic events like violence, war, military deployment, and maltreatment.

PTMO is listed as an effective program on the National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP). PMTO works to engage parents or caregivers in order to strengthen resilience of traumatized children from preschool to adolescence.

After attending the two workshops and weekly coaching sessions, participants in our training program will be able to deliver this intervention to parents in both individual and group settings. Participants will leave with skills for effectively improving the lives of parents and children exposed to trauma and will set themselves apart in the job market as a certified PTMO facilitator.

Who should attend? The training is intended for anyone who works with, or is training to work with, children or parents that have been exposed to trauma. Facilitators do not need to be licensed clinicians

Details

PMTO Facilitator training occurs in two workshops: • Workshop #1 training dates are Monday, August 7 through Thursday, August 10, 2017 from

8:30am to 4:30pm; • Workshop #2 training dates are Monday, September 11 through Thursday, September 14,

2017 from 8:30am to 4:30pm. Afterward, attendees will participate in weekly coaching calls. To be accepted, participants MUST agree to attend both sessions, coaching calls, and have the ability to implement their first use of PMTO after the second workshop.

Training in PMTO is offered at no cost, but all travel-related expenses are the responsibility of the attendee.

Applications need to be emailed to bray0021@umn.edu no later than May 5, 2017. Attendee confirmation letters will be sent out on May 19, 2017.

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AbouttheCenterforResilientforResilientFamilies

The Center for Resilient Families, a Category II Treatment and Service Adaptation Center in the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), under the direction of project director Abigail Gewirtz, PhD, LP and co-director Chris Bray, PhD, LP, is a partnership between Ambit Network at the University of Minnesota, and developers of evidence-based family programs at Arizona State University’s REACH institute, Implementation Sciences International Inc. in Oregon, and the Research Consortium on Gender-based Violence.

The Center aims to raise awareness of and increase access to family interventions that promote resilience in traumatized children and reduces disparities in service access, use, and training by targeting trauma-informed family interventions to isolated families: those with a parent deployed to war, Native American families on reservations, immigrant and refugee families, families involved in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems, and families in which a parent has been killed.

The Center adapts and widely implements an array of five evidence-based parenting interventions, all of which have been tested and shown to be effective at strengthening resilience among traumatized families. These interventions are: Family check-up/FCU; the Family Bereavement Program/FBP; Parent Management Training-Oregon model/PMTO, and its validated adaptations for military families – After Deployment, Adaptive Parenting Tools/ADAPT and Latino immigrant families – CAPAS. Developers will work closely with communities within and beyond the NCTSN to implement and sustain programs via learning collaboratives for providers serving our target family populations.

MeetthePMTOFaculty

AbigailGewirtzPhD,LPProfessor and Director of the Center for Resilient Families

Institute for Translational Research in Children’s Mental Health University of Minnesota

MollyWiller,PhD,LPFaculty, Institute for Translational Research in Children’s Mental Health

University of Minnesota

Laura Rains, M.A., LCSW Faculty, International Sciences International, Incorporated (ISII)

LuannGray,LMSWVisiting Faculty, Michigan Community Mental Health

Included is an application for both organizations and individuals Please fill out both applications

APPLICATION FOR THE CANDIDATE ORGANIZATION

Organization

Organization

Name

Street Address

City

State

Zip Code Organization Mailing Address

Organization Telephone Number

NCTSN Funding

Does your organization have funding through the National Child Traumatic Stress Network? Currently funded NCTSN grantee Previously funded NCTSN grantee Organization has not had funding through the NCTSN

Contact

First Name

Last Name

Position/Title

Email Address

Telephone Number

General Description of Organization Briefly describe your organization, including type, size, location, client population, and key referral sources. Specify the service systems where the at risk youth and families you serve reside; for example, juvenile justice, child welfare, education, child advocacy, etc. Describe your current treatment model, and whether your facility uses evidence–based practices. State whether you are applying as a Single Agency or as a Partnership Team.

Describe prior experience team members have had with other treatments guided by a manual.

Target Population(s)

Describe your target population(s) including: (1) urban or rural backgrounds; (2) pertinent characteristics of the target population (e.g., Native American military families); (3) settings in which the prevention intervention or treatment will be implemented (e.g. schools); and (4) number of families who may be eligible to receive the prevention intervention or treatment.

Parent/Caregiver Engagement Effective treatment implementation is dependent on engaging parents and caregivers. Briefly describe how your agency works to engage parents or caregivers to ensure they are partners in the intervention.

Partnerships If your proposed team is a partnership between organizations, please describe the support system currently in place for delivering treatment. Additionally, please identify any barriers you foresee and suggest how you intend to address them.

Requirements for Participation in Program

Please check all items that you agree to:

❏ All participating staff members will be attending the two workshops: August 7-10 and September 11-14, 2017

❏ Your organization will begin implementation as soon as possible after the second workshop

❏ Facilitators will participate in weekly coaching calls and will agree to videotape their sessions

❏ Your organization will participate in collecting intake and outcome data

❏ Your organization will adhere to requirements for programmatic assessment and fidelity tracking

❏ Your site personnel will be apprised of the program implementation and efforts will be made to assure support is provided from all levels of the organization

Staff Members to Attend the Training

Please list each staff member to attend the training along with the specific information requested below. Please note that a minimum of two and a maximum of five staff members from each organization may attend.

TRAINEE #1

Clinician Organization staff member Additional Team Member

Name:

Position/Title:

Choose One:

Email address:

Telephone Number:

TRAINEE #2

Clinician

Position/Title:

Organization Staff Member Additional Team Member

Name:

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Email address:

Telephone Number:

TRAINEE #3

Clinician

Position/Title:

Organization Staff Member Additional Team Member

Name:

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Email address:

Telephone Number:

TRAINEE #4

Clinician

Position/Title:

Organization Staff Member Additional Team Member

Name:

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Email address:

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TRAINEE #5

Clinician Organization Staff Member Additional Team

Name:

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Email address:

Telephone Number:

Position/Title:

INDIVIDUAL APPLICATION Each applicant should complete this page and submit with the organization application.

Staff Member Additional Team Member

Name:

Position/Title:

Choose One: Clinician

Email address:

Telephone Number:

Group ExperiencePlease describe your experience to date leading groups of adults parents. Please include information on ● The types of groups you currently conduct, the formal name of the group intervention,

and what the group targets. ● How often are these groups conducted and in what setting (in classrooms, in therapy

rooms, other).

Experience Conducting Manualized Programs Please describe your experience to date conducting manualized prevention intervention or treatment programs.