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APAC Webinar- Parenting Together in Blended Family Situations with Joel W. Hawbaker

Wednesday, February 12, 2020
12:00 pm1:00 pm
Online Webinar

DESCRIPTION:
Blended families pose unique challenges that don’t normally arise in more traditional households. When children from different backgrounds and various situations all come together into a new home, there is bound to be potential for intensified struggles for all parties involved. This can be even trickier for all of the co-parenting adults involved. Some of these issues include scheduling, relating well to other members of the family, respect toward adults, rivalries/jealousy toward siblings, as well as ownership vs. sharing of items in the home. In this webinar, Joel Hawbaker will explore the unique challenges often faced by blended family/co-parenting situations and offer some practical, common-sense approaches to address these difficulties from a place of patience and compassion. Regardless of the specific issues that families may be facing, this webinar will help blended families to work more cooperatively and positively together.

OBJECTIVES:

1. Recognize and identify unique difficulties in blended family/co-parenting situations
2. Discuss and analyze two foundational principles of blended family life
3. Examine and apply the ‘10 Commandments of Blended Family Life’

SPEAKER:
Joel W. Hawbaker
is a teacher, coach, speaker, and best-selling author from right here in Alabama. He works with blended families by helping them to live more cooperatively and positively together. Joel has been a high school teacher for over 13 years, and he uses his experience in the classroom to also teach from the stage, using story-telling, audience interaction, and humor to highlight key takeaways regarding blended families. His first book Inverted Leadership: Lead Others Better By Forgetting About Yourself was an Amazon #1 best-seller, and he is currently working on a book specifically geared toward blended family life. The son of divorced parents, he is also divorced and remarried, and so his experience with blended families is extensive from his own life as well as his work. He currently lives in Anniston with his wife Maryellyn, his two daughters, and their two rescue dogs Bruiser and Butterscotch. When Joel grows up, he wants to be a fighter pilot. Click HERE to learn more about what all Joel is up to.

REGISTRATION and CONTINUING EDUCATION:
As with all of our APAC services and events, admission to this training is FREE for all attendees and this includes a General Certificate of Attendance for foster parents and other attendees seeking attendance verification. Professional Social Work and Counseling CE verification can be purchased for $10 for live participation.
Participants must attend the entire webinar to qualify for continuing education verification. (Minimum of 45 minutes to account for possible technical difficulties or delay.)
You will be provided a link to join the webinar but also an audio number in the event you do not have computer speakers/audio. Participants who only join through the phone number only will not be eligible for continuing education verification.

NOTE: The CE fee is waived all Alabama DHR staff.

Cancellation Policy: In the event you cannot attend the live webinar, notify us at training@childrensaid.org before the conclusion of the training and we can issue a refund for continuing education cost. Unfortunately, we cannot issue credits for future events.

Social Work self-study CEs for this course will soon be available in the APAC Online Training site for $10.

CAS is an approved Continuing Education Provider for ABSWE (#0039).
Children's Aid Society is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements. Children's Aid Society is responsible solely for all aspects of the program.
(NBCC Provider #6459)

If you have questions, please contact our training staff at training@childrensaid.org, or call 866-803-2722.

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