Alliance Training Opportunity

The National Alliance of Children’s Trust and Prevention Funds (Alliance) offers a training of trainers for the curriculum Bringing the Protective Factors Framework to Life in Your Work, which is complementary to our popular online training on the Strengthening Families™ Protective Factors Framework.

Bringing the Protective Factors Framework to Life in Your Work – In Person Training

This in-person adaptation of the Alliance's popular on-line training on the Protective Factors Framework includes the primary content from the online training with new interactive activities added to benefit from adult learning styles in group settings. This training is for those who want to use these materials to train others in understanding and applying the Protective Factors Framework in their everyday work.

The training consists of three dynamic days of learning. Your state or organization may be interested in hosting a training. If so, please contact us for further information at info@ctfalliance.org.

Benefits of Attending a Training Event

Participants who successfully complete this training become Certified Trainers and members of our national learning community of trainers from diverse fields who seek excellence in training around the protective factors.

An Important Message from the New Jersey Child Welfare Commissioner

Dr. Allison Blake, the Commissioner of the NJ Department of Children and Families, shares her endorsement of the Protective Factors Framework and her commitment to using the Alliance's training of trainers, Bringing the Protective Factors to Life in Your Work, to ensure that workers across the state are skilled in helping families build protective factors. She suggests that her colleagues around the country do the same. She is a great supporter of the Framework and puts that support into practice by requiring all NJ DCF grantees to show how they plan to implement the Framework in their work with children and families. This support is further expressed by the solid professional development foundation NJ is building by supporting multiple training cohorts of Alliance Certified Trainers for Bringing the Protective Factors Framework to Life in Your Work. Dr. Blake is well known and highly respected across the country and we appreciate her endorsement of this valuable resource provided by the Alliance.

Participants Share Their Experiences in the Three-Day Training of Trainers Event

Participants at a recent Alliance training of trainers sponsored by the Children's Trust of South Carolina share what they found to be most meaningful about their experiences in this training, Bringing the Protective Factors to Life in Your Work, and what they are now able to take back to their community that will move their work forward to prevent child abuse and neglect and strengthen families.
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Support as a Certified Trainer

Following the three-day intensive in-person training, Certified Trainers remain linked to the Alliance and receive numerous supports, such as:

• A limited license to use course materials to train local and state audiences
• An extensive trainer's manual with guidance for training the content in each of the seven sessions and the additional materials needed for the training
• Access to the Alliance’s private online Certified Trainer Support Site, where multiple resources are available to assist the Certified Trainer
• The ability to generate and track local online training registration for courses offered by each Certified Trainer
• Access for downloading print-ready copies of all training materials
• The ability to utilize a virtual library organized around the Protective Factors
• Membership in and access to a private forum for Certified Trainers to interact with each other and the Alliance
• Participation in periodic formal Learning Community Networking Events with other Certified Trainers and the Alliance

Thus far, over 550 have been trained in this curriculum. These trainers will offer the training to early care and education providers, family support professionals, child welfare staff and others.

Training Events

The training has occurred in:

• Salt Lake City, Utah hosted by the Utah Children's Trust Fund
• Honolulu, Hawaii, hosted by the Hawaii Children's Trust Fund
• Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, hosted by the Pennsylvania Children's Trust Fund
• Amador County, California, hosted by The Resource Connection
• Costa Mesa, California, hosted by the Orange County Department of Education
• New Jersey, has hosted three training events, co-hosted by Rutgers University School of Social Work and the New Jersey Department of Children and Families in 2014, 2015 and in 2016
• Arkansas, hosted by the Early Care and Education Projects, College of Education and Health Professions, University of Arkansas in 2014 and 2015
• Albany, New York, hosted by the Children and Family Trust Fund, Office of Children and Family Services, New York
• Tumon, Guam - Hosted by Rigalu Foundation; Early Learning Council; University of Guam, Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education Research and Service; Department of Public Health and Social Services; Guam Behavioral Health and Wellness Center; Department of Education; Guam’s Positive Parents Together
• Prescott, Arizona hosted by the Prevent Child Abuse Arizona
• Yakima, Washington hosted by the Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital
• Fresno, California hosted by the Fresno County Office of Education
• Utah hosted a second training event in 2016, held in Boutiful, Utah, hosted by the Utah Children's Trust Fund
• Wisconsin hosted by the Wisconsin Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board
• South Carolina hosted by the South Carolina Children's Trust Fund
• Arizona hosted a second training, hosted by the PCA Arizona
• Oklahoma co-hosted by the Oklahoma State Departoment of Health (DOH) and the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (OKMHSAS) in 2017

If you would like to be notified when upcoming training events are scheduled, please complete the "Get More Information" form.

Learn More About the Trainer Support Program

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Benefits of Attending a Training Event

Participants who successfully complete this training become Certified Trainers and members of our national learning community of trainers from diverse fields who seek excellence in training around the protective factors. Following the three-day intensive in-person training, Certified Trainers remain linked to the Alliance and receive numerous supports, such as:

• A limited license to use course materials to train local and state audiences
• An extensive trainer's manual with guidance for training the content in each of the seven sessions and the additional materials needed for the training
• Access to the Alliance’s private online Certified Trainer Support Site, where multiple resources are available to assist the Certified Trainer
• The ability to generate and track local online training registration for courses offered by each Certified Trainer
• Access for downloading print-ready copies of all training materials
• The ability to utilize a virtual library organized around the Protective Factors
• Membership in and access to a private forum for Certified Trainers to interact with each other and the Alliance
• Participation in periodic formal Learning Community Networking Events with other Certified Trainers and the Alliance

Thus far, over 400 have been trained in this curriculum. These trainers will offer the training to early care and education providers, family support professionals, child welfare staff and others.

Online Training Information

For more details on the online training courses, please click on the brochure image below. Or go to the Online Training page.