FDC Overview:

 

The Cornell Family Development Credential (FDC) Program emerged in the mid-1990s from a research-policy collaboration between the Department of Human Development from Cornell University’s College of Human Ecology, and the Work Group on Family Support created by New York State’s Council on Children and Families (CCF).  This came about when CCF, representing fifteen major state family-serving agencies, sought Cornell’s expertise to reorient state family services from the deficit approach to a strengths-based partnership approach. This group recommended establishing the Family Development Credential to teach front-line family workers how to apply Cornell research on the ecology of human development and parental empowerment with their families and communities, and to teach agency leaders to effectively reorient policies and systems.

 

Kentucky Family Development Credential Project

FDC Forms Library

New Forms Added (March 15, 2008)

Other FDC Forms (previously added)

 

READING & PORTFOLIO ASSIGNMENTS

  • Session              Reading Assignment
    Session 1           Chap 1 (pp 27-66)
                             Chap 2 (pp 69-91)
    Session 2           Chap 3 (pp 93-124)
    Session 3            Chap 4 (pp 125-169)
    Session 4            Chap 5 (pp 171-195)
                             Chap 6 (pp 197-216)
    Session 5            Chap 7 (pp 217-260)
    Session 6            Chap 8 (pp 263-281)
                              Chap 9 (pp 283-337)
    Session 7            Chap 10 (pp 339-369)

  • Portfolio Requirements : (revised March 15, 2008 -- additions in italics)  
    • Statement of Confidentiality: Each Portfolio must include a Portfolio Statement of Confidentiality form, signed by the worker and the Portfolio Advisor.
    • Activities to Extend Learning: For each chapter, a worker is to choose three questions from the "Activities to Extend Learning" section, but do not complete all the questions in a particular section.  Example: in a particular chapter, a worker might choose to respond to questions A 3, D 4, and F 5 (if they exist in that chapter).  Make sure to include the Activities to Extend Learning & Skills Practice Plan form (signed by your Portfolio Advisor).  By the end of the Chapter 10, workers will have prepared responses to 30 Activities to Extend Learning questions.
    • Skills Practice: For each chapter, a worker is to choose one question from the “Skills Practices” section.  Make sure to include the Skills Practice Reflection form (signed by your Portfolio Advisor).  By the end of the Chapter 10, workers will have prepared 10 skills practices, 3 family development plans, and a final reflection on one family's progress.
    • Family Development Plans:  Each Portfolio must include three (3) Family Development Plans, reflecting appropriate practice with one family over a period of time.  All identifying information about the family (names, address, etc.) should be removed.
      • Reflection on One Family's Progress Documented Through the Family Development Plan – a one page statement in which the worker reflects on what s/he did or did not do, or say, to facilitate change, the skills used by the family, the outcome, and whether it was expected, and what the worker learned from the process.


FDC SITE INFORMATION

BEREA, KENTUCKY

  • Driving directions to Berea hotel and training site
  • Enrollment -- Berea FDC Training
  • Hotel:
    • Fairfield Inn -- ask for Kentucky Head Start Association room block
      1007 Paint Lick Rd
      Berea KY 40403
    • Phone:  859.985.8191
    • Rate:  $60 / night
    • Rate includes continental breakfast and high speed internet in the sleeping rooms.
  • Training Site:
    • Berea College
      Folwer Child Development Laboratory
      125 W. Jefferson Street
      Berea, KY 40404
    • Phone:  859.985.3000
  • Training Dates
    • Session #1 (3 days) – October 10-12, 2007 – class begins at 9:30 AM!!
    • Session #2 (2 days) – November 15-16, 2007
    • Session #3 (2 days) – December 11-12, 2007
    • Session #4 (2 days) – January 17-18, 2008
    • Session #5 (2 days) – February 7-8, 2008
    • Session #6 (2 days) – March 13-14, 2008
    • Session #7 (2 days) – April 29-30, 2008

BOWLING GREEN, KENTUCKY

  • Driving directions to Bowling Green hotel and training site -- NEW LOCATION!
  • Enrollment -- Bowling Green FDC Training
  • Hotel:
    • Hampton Inn  -- ask for Kentucky Head Start Association room block
      233 Three Springs Road
      Bowling Green KY 42104
    • Phone: 270.842.4100
    • Rate: $74 / night
    • Rate includes continental breakfast and high speed internet in the sleeping rooms.
  • Training Site:
    • Community Action Head Start
      921 Beauty Avenue
      Bowling Green, KY 42101
    • Phone:  800.869.9257 / 502.607.0770
  • Training Dates
    • Session #1 (3 days) – October 3-5, 2007 – class begins at 9:30 AM!!
    • Session #2 (2 days) – November 15-16, 2007
    • Session #3 (2 days) – December 11-12, 2007
    • Session #4 (2 days) – January 17-18, 2008
    • Session #5 (2 days) – February 7-8, 2008
    • Session #6 (2 days) – March 13-14, 2008
    • Session #7 (2 days) – April 29-30, 2008

FRANKFORT, KENTUCKY

  • Hotel:
    • Hampton Inn -- ask for Kentucky Head Start Association room block
      1310 US Highway 127 South
      Frankfort KY 40601
    • Phone:  502.223.7600
    • Rate:  $75 / night + tax
    • Phone:  800.869.9257 / 502.607.0770
    • Rate includes continental breakfast and high speed internet in the sleeping rooms.
  • Training Dates
    • Kentucky Head Start Association
      649 Charity Court, Conference Room
      Frankfort KY 40601
    • Phone:  800.869.9257 / 502.607.0770
  • Training Dates
    • Session #1 (3 days) – October 10-12, 2007, class begins at 9:30 AM!!
    • Session #2 (2 days) – November 15-16, 2007
    • Session #3 (2 days) – December 11-12, 2007
    • Session #4 (2 days) – January 17-18, 2008
    • Session #5 (2 days) – February 7-8, 2008
    • Session #6 (2 days) – March 13-14, 2008
    • Session #7 (2 days) – April 29-30, 2008

 

 
 
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