Web-Enhanced Pre-Service Training for Foster, Adoptive, and Kinship Parents

描述（由申请人提供）：在第二阶段，我们将完成和评估一个网络增强的服务前培训计划，为未来的寄养照顾者。该方案由人类服务研究所开发，是目前全国使用的标准化职前培训课程。代理机构和家长之间的面对面接触使工作人员能够筛选和建立与家长的关系。然而，培训的很大一部分涉及培养知识和形成寄养所必需的态度的教学活动。在线提供这些组件提供了明显的优势：首先，在线模块可以作为补课谁错过了一节课的父母。这将使家长和机构能够完成整个培训，而不必投入额外的资源来补课，也不必重新开始或推迟培训。它还将使家庭中的其他在家照顾者有机会查看课程。在线模块也可用作课堂培训的补充教学工具。在拟议的方案中，12个拟议的在线培训模块将是独立的教学单元。在第一阶段，我们使用Flash技术开发了一个关于虐待儿童和虐待儿童的基础模块。可行性研究表明，互动式多媒体传递实际上比课堂传递更有效地传递知识;它也比课堂培训获得更高的用户满意度;在增加对亲生父母的同情方面，它比课堂培训略有效。在第二阶段，我们将开发和评估其余11个培训单元中的每一个。还将制作在线模块的CD，以适应无法访问高速互联网的父母。公共卫生相关性：参加这个项目的主题将获得重要的信息，这将使他们成为寄养或收养儿童的有效资源父母。因此，他们养育子女的质量和技能以及他们所照顾的儿童的福祉都可以得到改善。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In Phase II we will complete and evaluate a Web-enhanced pre-service training program for prospective foster caregivers. The program, developed by the Institute for Human Services, is a standardized pre-service training curriculum in current use nationally. Face- to-face contact between agencies and parents allows staff to screen and forge relationships with the parents. However, a substantial part of the training involves instructional activities that build knowledge and shape attitudes essential to foster care. Delivering these components online offers distinct advantages: First and foremost, online modules could serve as make-up classes for parents who miss a class. This would allow parents and agencies to complete the entire training without having to devote additional resources for a make-up class or having to restart or delay the training. It would also give other homebound caregivers in the family the opportunity to view the curriculum. The online modules could also be used as an added teaching tool for classroom training. In the proposed program the 12 proposed online training modules would be stand-alone instructional units. In Phase I we developed a foundational module using Flash technology on Child Abuse and Neglect. The feasibility study showed that the interactive multimedia delivery was in fact more effective than the classroom delivery in conveying knowledge; it also received higher user satisfaction ratings than the classroom training; and it was slightly more effective than the classroom training in increasing empathy for birth parents. In Phase II we will develop and evaluate each of the remaining 11 training modules. The online modules will also be produced for CD to accommodate parents who do not have access to high-speed Internet. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Subjects participating in this project will gain important information that will prepare them to be effective resource parents for foster or adopted children. As a result, the quality and skill of their parenting could improve, as well as the well-being of the children in their care.