Empowering the Parent Team

NJPC is offering a FREE five-week Professional Parent Advocacy Training program for parents, grandparents, foster parents, adoptive parents, and other caregivers raising children with emotional and behavioral challenges. Parents and caregivers attending the training are given the opportunity to strengthen their knowledge of the systems that serve their families, their rights and responsibilities within those systems, and the advocacy, professional, and collaborative skills needed to successfully negotiate those systems.

Parents will become better able to advocate for themselves and their communities, resulting in increased access to appropriate care and treatment for all children. The Professional Advocacy Training is approved for foster, adoptive, and kinship training through NJPC.

Instructor
Kathy Wright, Executive Director, NJPC

To register, please email [email protected]

May 31

• Introduction to Professional Parent Advocacy
• Motivation & Assertiveness

June 14

• Empowering vs. Enabling
• Conflict Resolution Skills & the Power of Persuasion
• Professionalism & Persuasion Skills

June 28

• Navigating the Special Education System and the IEP Process

July 12

• Understanding Childhood Mental Health Challenges & DSM 5
• Navigating the Juvenile Justice System

July 26

• Understanding the Child Welfare System
• Ensuring Cultural Competence & Diversity in the Child Serving Community
• Collaborating with Children & Family Agencies

Event Type	Family Support
Age Groups	Adults
Community Services	Family & Support Services Family Support Parenting & Caregiving
Health Services	Behavioral / Mental Health Teen Issues
Areas Served	Middlesex County

Last Updated: 05/23/25