Session Description:

This session will review the Strengthening Families Protective Factors framework and how to apply them. The five protective factors include parental resilience, social connections, concrete support in times of need, knowledge of parenting and child development, and social and emotional competence of children. 

Objectives – Participants will:

-Have a general knowledge of the five protective factors

-Identify at least one concrete strategy to strengthen protective factors

Presenter

Dana Powell, Training Coordinator

Dana is the Training Coordinator at Children’s Trust of South Carolina where she works to make sure all child and family serving professionals, as well as foster parents, adoptive parents and others, have the information they need to support children and families by strengthening protective factors. She is the lead trainer for early childhood development, middle childhood development, and responding to abuse and neglect trainings. Dana is also a protective factors trainer and an adverse childhood experiences (ACE) master trainer and one of the lead facilitators teaching new ACE master trainers.

Prior to joining Children’s Trust, Dana worked with the South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (now Fact Forward) for nearly 10 years. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English and secondary education from Carson-Newman University and a master’s degree in higher education and student affairs from the University of South Carolina.