Training Institute
The Mockingbird Society presents, The Mockingbird Training Institute (MTI).
Trainings and Workshops
- Basic and Advanced Clinical Trainings
- Program Development and Consultation
- Senior Management Consultation
- Retreat Facilitation and Team Building
On-site Training Team
Providing foster care/group care services is demanding and complicated work. The ON-SITE TRAINING Team goes inside the residential treatment program and /or foster home to provide on-site program stabilization and direction. This can be a planned training event or in response to a program crisis.
Think-tank
Community forums with a range of stakeholders including family members, youth, foster parents, counselors, administrators, and others exploring critical issues that are relevant to the health and safety of children and youth who are in the foster home/group care system.
- 12,000 children in Washington live in the foster home/group care system
- 6,000 of these children are school age
- Group homes are reimbursed less than 70% of the true cost of care
- $9.00 is the average rate of pay for counselors who work in group homes
- Children and adolescents in the foster care system present with serious and complicated needs
- Quality foster parents and experienced professionals are essential
Contact Information
To learn more about how to join The Mockingbird Society contact:
Jim Theofelis, Executive Director2100 24th Ave S. Ste. 240
Seattle, WA 98144
(206) 323-KIDS (5437)