Trainings

FCSP offers trainings for frontline workers, supervisors and administrators in social service, mental health and health care settings. We customize our workshops to fit the needs of your particular agency or program, and have offerings that are applicable to clinic, residential, home-based and child protection contexts. Some of the trainings we offer include:

• Collaborative clinical practice
• Recasting resistance: Engaging reluctant families
• Assessment as intervention: Building resourcefulness while examining difficulties
• Collaborative approaches to proactive treatment planning
• Collaborative inquiry: Questions as interventions
• Helping families build communities to sustain positive change
• Invitations to responsibility: Working with people who have been abusive and violent
• Collaborating with families in crisis situations
• Building staff resilience: Managing the effects of working in traumatic situations
• Facilitating difficult conversations with staff and families
• Teaming with families and colleagues
• Sustaining collaborative practice in the "real world"
• Supervision to support family-centered practice
• Reflective leadership in community agencies
• Outcome measurement: Measuring what is valuable vs. valuing what is measurable

If you would like more detailed descriptions of our trainings or would like to request a training that does not appear on this list, please contact:
William Madsen, PhD
Family Institute of Cambridge
51 Kondazian Street
Watertown, MA 02472
617-868-9044; madsen1@comcast.net