RPC Staff Facilitator Training
Designed for professionals in North Carolina who work with and provide trainings to foster, kinship or adoptive parents.
Welcome to the RPC Staff Facilitator Training!
RPC Staff Facilitator Training is a comprehensive train-the-facilitator event for the National Child Traumatic Stress Network’s Caring for Children Who Have Experienced Trauma: A Workshop for Resource Parents curriculum. This training is provided by staff at the Center for Child & Family Health and is sponsored by the NC Division of Social Services.
RPC is a trauma-informed, 16-hour in-service training that has shifted the way foster, adoptive, and kinship parents work with youth. The curriculum is publicly available, but can be complicated to deliver to parents. Experts in RPC will help Staff-Facilitators-in-Training fully understand the curriculum content; provide feedback on their delivery of RPC; and provide ongoing consultation as Staff-Facilitators-in-Training teach RPC to parents in their community.
Training Overview
The RPC Staff Facilitator Training year runs from the fall, when the application for the training is released, to the end of the following June (or sooner if workshops are delivered in early spring!) About 40 hours of virtual training are spread out through curriculum overview webinars, workshop planning calls and a 4-day practice session. Part of the training also involves facilitating a workshop to foster, adoptive or kinship parents with weekly consultation calls hosted by RPC Training Faculty.
Those who successfully complete the training can be listed on the North Carolina RPC Facilitator Roster.
FAQ
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How do I navigate this site?!?
If you are not sure how to navigate this site, please reach out to Dina Gerber at [email protected] and she will help you access this training course. We will make sure there are no technology barriers that will hinder your access to this training!
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Where do I go to sign up for specific training event times?
Sign into the course and you will be directed to links to sign up for the next small group training event that need sign ups. Throughout the training year you will sign up for the time that best works for specific small group training events. Sign up after acceptance for a Curriculum Overview Webinar at the time of your choosing (first come, first served). After the webinars wrap up, sign up for Workshop Planning Call (occurring in January.) After your Workshop Planning Call, sing up for Consultation Calls that start after the Live Practice Sessions occurring in early February.
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How much does RPC Staff Facilitator training cost?
RPC Staff Facilitator Training is free to trainees due to funding from NCDSS. However there are some costs associated with facilitating the workshop required to complete the training.
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Can I team up and facilitate with my co-worker who is also in this training?
Yes, you can co-facilitate a workshop with one other person. However, if you have three or more people from your agency in this training, you will need to provide separate workshops.
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Can I be both staff facilitator and parent facilitator?
Many of our staff-facilitators may have lived experience as a resource parent, but for the purpose of this training, we ask that you only wear one hat.