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

描述(由申请者提供)：在第二阶段，我们将完成并评估为未来寄养照顾者提供的网络增强的服务前培训计划。该项目由人类服务研究所开发，是目前在全国范围内使用的标准化职前培训课程。中介机构和家长之间的面对面接触使工作人员能够筛选并与家长建立关系。然而，培训的很大一部分涉及建立知识和塑造寄养所必需的态度的教学活动。在线授课提供了独特的优势：首先，在线模块可以作为缺课家长的补课课程。这将允许家长和机构完成整个培训，而不必为补课投入额外资源，也不必重新启动或推迟培训。这也将给家庭中的其他居家照顾者提供观看课程的机会。在线模块还可用作课堂培训的附加教学工具。在拟议方案中，拟议的12个在线培训单元将是独立的教学单元。在第一阶段，我们使用闪存技术开发了一个关于儿童虐待和忽视的基础模块。可行性研究显示，互动多媒体教学实际上比课堂教学更有效地传达知识；它也获得了比课堂培训更高的用户满意度；在增加亲生父母同理心方面，它略高于课堂培训。在第二阶段，我们将开发和评估其余11个培训单元。还将为CD制作在线模块，以满足无法接入高速互联网的父母的需求。公共卫生相关性：参与该项目的受试者将获得重要信息，为他们成为寄养或领养儿童的有效资源父母做好准备。因此，他们的育儿质量和技能可以提高，他们照顾的孩子的福祉也会得到改善。

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.