Children's Bureau, Inc. - Take CHANCES for Kids!

Children Healing and Attaching through Nurture,
Consistency, Emotional Regulation, and Structure

About the Program

Take C.H.A.N.C.E.S for Kids (CHANCES) is a three-day curriculum designed to teach mental health providers how to train other professionals about serving families affected by Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD). The concept behind this program is that providers need to take CHANCES to help children with attachment issues.

Treating attachment issues is difficult, in part because successful treatment of children diagnosed with RAD involves the entire family. The goals of the CHANCES training is to equip mental health providers with tools that empower them to better understand what it takes for a child to attach in a family.

Training Objectives

As a participant of this training, you can expect take away knowledge and treatment strategies that you’ll be able to put into practice immediately. You’ll learn about:

Attachment Theory, the Attachment Cycle, and Emotional Regulation
Assessment and Intervention Techniques for families affected by RAD
Coordinating Attachment and Permanency (CAP) curriculum
Training others using the CHANCES curriculum

Becoming a Trainer

This workshop is a “training of the trainers” curriculum. Participants in this program are asked to sign a Commitment Agreement before being accepted into the program.

This agreement commits you to training the CHANCES curriculum, in its entirety, to other mental health professionals at least twice in the two years after you are trained. It also requires that you attend a one day follow-up training between June 2010 and June 2011.

The Commitment Agreement must be signed by both you, and your CEO or agency director. We take this commitment to train others seriously, and want this agreement to be important not only to you, but also to the leadership in your agency.

>> Download the Commitment Agreement (PDF)

You will be expected to recruit other mental health professionals to attend the trainings you lead. We’ll help prepare you to lead your own training by supplying you with:

a bound copy of the entire CHANCES curriculum
a CD containing electronic versions of the manual and PowerPoint slides
a copy of the CAP curriculum
a therapy toolkit

Participant Selection for CHANCES

There will be a maximum of 20 individuals selected to attend each training. Upon receipt of applications, participants will be selected based location, receipt of a completed Commitment Agreement, educational background, and experience. There will also be an agency cap of 2 individuals per agency, per region.

At this time, the CHANCES trainings are not open to Indiana Department of Child Services staff.

Cost & Continuing Education Hours

The CHANCES training is at no cost to participants, thanks to the funding of the Indiana Department of Child Services. Additionally, participants will also be served lunch onsite at the training facility, free of charge.

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) grants successful completers of this training 20 Approved Social Work Continuing Education Hours (CEHs).

Training Locations & Registration

Trainings will be offered in all 18 DCS Regions throughout the state of Indiana. If your region is not currently on the calendar, please check again in upcoming months. Here is a snapshot of our calendar:

Terre Haute:	April 21 - 23, 2009	Anderson:	March 3 - 5, 2010
Muncie:	May 18 - 20, 2009	South Bend:	April 6 - 8, 2010
Valparaiso:	June 17 - 19, 2009	Columbus:	May 4 - 6, 2010
Bloomington:	July 28 - 30, 2009	Greendale:	February 24 - 26, 2010
Indianapolis:	August 3 - 5, 2009	Portage:	March 17 - 19, 2010
Sellersburg:	August 25 - 27, 2009	Lafayette:	May 12 - 14, 2010
Kokomo:	October 27 - 29, 2009	Evansville:	June 8 - 10, 2010
Avon:	November 10 - 12, 2009	Fort Wayne:	July 13 - 15, 2010

>> View the Quicklist of Current Events
and register online in the region of your choice.

Questions?

Feel free to contact Sarah Hahn, CHANCES Training Coordinator, at shahn@childrensbureau.org or 317-545-5281 x230 with questions or comments. You may send your completed Commitment Agreement to her at:

Children's Bureau, Inc.
Attn: Sarah Hahn
3801 N. Temple Avenue
Indianapolis, IN 46205