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The Family Development
Credentialing Program (FDC) is a 90 hour professional development
course for those who work with individuals and families: caseworkers,
aides, ministers, community leaders, counselors, college students,
volunteers, and more. FDC is a multi-disciplinary empowerment approach
that helps people identify and build on their strengths and develop a
plan to solve problems and achieve goals. This well researched,
strength-based curriculum was developed by Cornell University and is
currently offered in twenty states. Union-Snyder Community Action
Agency (CAA) is the local lead affiliate for this training. Students
earn the nationally recognized FDC credential
and are eligible for undergraduate college credits and
continuing education units.
A recently FDC-credentialed
worker said, “FDC training
teaches us that in order to help families achieve goals of healthy
self-reliance, they need to recognize their strengths and develop a
plan to reach goals that are important to them.
FDC empowered me both as a person and a family worker, and it
helped me build on my years of experience and training.
It was great to learn with other family professionals.
The course information and networking with other agencies has
definitely helped me help the families I work with.”
The training
is provided locally in conjunction with the Integrated Family Services
Council. Forty-nine workers from Snyder County Children and Youth,
Union County Children and Youth, SUM Child Development, CSIU, TIU,
CMSU, Nurse Family Partnership, CORE Susquehanna AmeriCorps, and
Union-Snyder CAA have earned certification since the first course in
2009. The implementation of the program was sponsored in part by the
PA Court system, and developed in coordination with Snyder County
Children and Youth.
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Session
Schedule and Cost
The
next FDC course, taught by certified instructors, is scheduled to
begin at Union-Snyder Community Action Agency in the beginning of 2012. The
cost of the course is $900. Some scholarships are available.
For more information about the course, please contact Denise
Kiess at Union-Snyder CAA, 570-374-0181, ext 176 or email
dkiess@union-snydercaa.org
How
to apply to the Family Development Credential Training Program
at Union-Snyder CAA.
Union-Snyder
CAA
Family Development Credential
Denise
Kiess
713 Bridge Street, Suite 10
Selinsgrove, PA 17870
Phone:
570-374-0181
ext. 176
1-877-497-1257
FAX:
570-374-2330
Email:
dkiess@union-snydercaa.org
Additional
information can be found on the FDC-PA website at www.fdc-pa.org.
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