PSP Certification

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Agency Readiness to Employ Parent Support Providers – This eight page brief reviews the steps an agency might take in preparation for beginning a parent-to-parent program and hiring Parent Support Providers. As part of the steps, the agency readiness includes developing a structure for the on-going support, supervision and evaluation of the program.

Best Personnel Practices in Parent Support Provider Programs -This nine page brief reviews the strategies for hiring and supervising Parent Support Providers as they work with families parenting children and youth with emotional, behavioral (including substance use) or mental health challenges.

Competencies of Parent Support Providers - The Parent Support Provider field is quickly evolving and becoming more complex and sophisticated. With the pending emergence of national certification from the National Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health, the current standard of practice has been translated into the following summary of core competencies. The purpose of this six page brief is to provide a description of the minimal competencies as understood as of December 2010 point in the evolution of Parent Support Providers and their work.  The 2012 Self-Assessment Training Checklist for your own use in evaluating a program of training.

The Certification Commission does not recommend or endorse any specific training.

While the Certification Commission of the National Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health does not endorse any specific training program, coursework or publication, it has identified information that has relevance to the competency of Parent Support Providers. The following list is not intended to be comprehensive nor directly preparatory to the Certified Parent Support Provider™ exam.  In alphabetical order, here are a few links to some published papers, articles and conference proceedings. 

•  Georgetown University National Technical Assistance Center for Children’s Mental Health – research, information and conference proceedings  http://gucchdtacenter.georgetown.edu/
• ICFMacro  – Children’s Mental Health Initiative – information, publications, and evaluation data related to systems of care  http://www.macrointernational.com/projects/cmhi/publications.aspx
• National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Development – information about child protection services, including  Primer Hands On-Child Welfare in 10 modules  http://muskie.usm.maine.edu/helpkids/agency_col_primer.htm
• National Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health – information about family support and children’s mental health, publications and conference proceedings.  http://www.ffcmh.org
• National Wraparound Initiative – information about wraparound for children and youth with serious behavioral health issues http://www.nwi.pdx.edu/#
• Research and Training Center on Children’s Mental Health – research and conference proceedings http://rtckids.fmhi.usf.edu/rtcconference/
• Research and Training Center  on Family Support and Children’s Mental Health – research, publications, and conference proceedings    http://www.rtc.pdx.edu/
• Technical Assistance Partnership on Child and Family Mental Health – information related to community systems of care and learning communities for communication, information sharing, problem solving, and collaboration http://www.tapartnership.org/  

Additionally, the following of useful courses available at No Cost Courses on the Internet.  The information can be downloaded as a document or reviewed below.   The listing of these internet courses does not necessarily constitute or imply endorsement by the Certification Commission of the National Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health.  The views and opinions of the authors expressed do not necessarily state or reflect those of the Certification Commission or the National Federation.  The Certification Commission and the National Federation take no responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or usefullness of any of the information contained in these courses and only offer the links for your convenience.

 Education
• On-line training on IDEA at   IDEA training modules   or IDEA training modules
 

Trauma
• On-line three module course on child trauma information and responding to child trauma Child Trauma Academy
• Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) – web-based training for people who will certify that they have Master’s level clinical training Trauma-Focused CBT training

. Child Protection
Child and Family Support Services Inc (Tempe AZ)
• Unique Needs of Children and Families Involved with Child Protective Services – Resiliency and Recovery Needs of Children and Families with Child Protective Services
• On-line self-paced course with certification at Magellan Primer on Resiliency and Recovery developed by Magellan

Military
• Training to increase understanding of the unique issues facing military youth dealing with the deployment and reunion of a parent or loved ones Issues Facing Youth with Military Parents

Diagnoses related trainings
• Autism Information Internet Training Modules – from identification to working with specific problems at Autism

• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
o FASD training modules
o Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Training Videos

• Homelessness – Intro to Health Care for the Homeless

• Substance abuse Questions related to substance use Question Related to Substance Use