Therapeutic Crisis Intervention For Family Care Providers (TCIF)

Foster and adoptive parents often have children placed with them who exhibit destructive and aggressive behavior. One of the most critical tasks for these family care providers is to teach children to manage their feelings of frustration, anger, and loss in more socially and developmentally appropriate ways. Therapeutic Crisis Intervention for Family Care Providers (TCIF) stresses crisis prevention and crisis de-escalation in ways that help children learn to avoid losing control.
The five-day train-the-trainer program gives agency trainers the tools to teach crisis prevention strategies and crisis intervention techniques to foster and adoptive parents. There are opportunities to practice activities and to gain immediate training experience in the subject matter.

Program Objectives

Participants will be able to:
—Proactively prevent and/or de-escalate a potential crisis situation with a child
—Manage a crisis situation in a therapeutic manner
—Process the crisis event with the child to help improve their coping skills
—Effectively deliver TCIF in their agencies

Intended Audience

Trainers, administrators, supervisors, foster and adoptive care workers, and providers interested in training crisis prevention and intervention techniques to family care providers.

TCIF Curriculum Outline

Day 1 Defines crisis as an opportunity for the child to learn new coping skills; explores how self-awareness, awareness of the child and the environment relates to crisis prevention; and discusses how to assess a crisis situation.
Day 2 Presents different ways to approach children in crisis and builds nonverbal and verbal crisis communication skills.  
Day 3 Provides opportunities to practice intervention strategies to address children's misbehaviors, examines ways to avoid power struggles, explores behavior management skills, and teaches Life Space Interviewing.
Day 4 Continues with Life Space Interviewing and provides opportunities to practice the I ASSIST technique to defuse a potentially violent/aggressive situation.
Day 5 Examines the dynamics of a temper tantrum, explores how to modify the Life Space Interview for pre-school children, and discusses implementation and certification requirements. Participants are tested for certification.

Materials

All participants will receive a comprehensive trainer's manual (reference and activity guide), student workbook, and a CD power point presentation.

TCIF Certification Process

The Residential Child Care Project has a certification process for TCIF trainers. Please note that all participants must pass the certification requirements during the TCIF training in order to train TCIF. Attendance alone does not qualify a participant to be a TCIF trainer. For more information about certification, please click the button below.

 

Signing Up For TCIF

TCIF is offered on a fee for service basis. Please click the button below for a current schedule and application form.