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Staff Receive SPIN Certification
Lolita Gleaton, Maryland caseworker, Jodie Glossick, Greater Berks caseworker, and Teeda Jagne, Maryland supervisor recently became Certified Video Home Technicians through SPIN® USA as part of their work in CONCERN’s Mother/Baby Independent Living Program.
SPIN, which is a Dutch acronym, translates as the Association for the Promotion of Intensive Home Training. SPIN is an internationally validated strength-based training approach focusing on what an individual is already doing that is successful. The goal of all interactions is to identify and augment every individual’s strengths and resources. There is an assumption that strengths exist both in the individual and in his/her larger environment. The individual and the professional work in partnership to determine how to corral and best utilize these resources to build lasting change. Worldwide, there are about 5,000 certified practitioners of SPIN Video Home Training® and SPIN Video Interaction Guidance™.
Direct care staff learns to use direct videotaped observation, detailed analysis of interaction and strengths-based feedback and coaching to strengthen families. SPIN® Video Home Training focuses on supporting parents in developing the qualities of responsive nurturing of their children that will support optimal learning and healthy social, emotional and cognitive development. Over the course of the 18 month certification program, each Apprentice Video Home Trainer will receive 98 hours of direct individual and small group training/coaching.
CONCERN’s Mother/Baby Independent Living Programs are designed to provide support to the adolescent or expectant mother in her efforts to develop a good parent-child relationship and become a productive citizen. The program focuses on four areas of competency: parenting skills, child development, safe sexual practices and independent living skills with CONCERN determining outcomes by the use of pre- and post-competency testing.
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