Nurturing Program (NP) Facilitator Training Virtual: July 17-19, 2023

Training Location: Zoom Meeting

Webcam and audio are required for participation.

9:00am-4:00pm CST

Trainer: Natalie Beck Aguilera, DSW, LCSW-S

This training requires you to have Nurturing Program curriculum available to you for the duration of the 3-day training (as well as after to implement the program properly). Your agency may already have the materials you need, so please check with them. If not, you will need to purchase the applicable curriculum from the nurturingparenting.com website. When purchasing, it will ask if you are working with a trainer/consultant, so you should find Natalie Beck Aguilera from the drop-down options (#243) to show that you are getting trained.

There are no pre-requisites for attendance at this workshop. This training targets direct service staff and is not intended to follow a train the trainer model. The three-day virtual training focuses on understanding the philosophy of nurturing parenting, assessing high risk parenting beliefs and environments, creating competency-based parenting lessons and programs tailored to meet the individual parenting needs of families, and implementing programs at the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of prevention. Participants will also learn how to monitor the success of families through on-going process evaluation strategies designed to measure the attainment of parenting knowledge and skills. Participants will experience hands on approach to implementing home based, group based and a combination home-based and group-based program models; learn how to administer and score the online version of the Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory (AAPI-2) and how to select the best Nurturing Program model for your agency.

This virtual training provides 18 hours of Continuing Education Credits for the following licenses: Psychologist, Professional Counselor, Psychological Associate, Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapist. Chemical Dependency Counselor, Peer Specialist, Supported Employment Specialist and Certified Family Partner. Upon successful completion of this virtual training, you will earn a certificate of completion and (if applicable) continuing education credit.