SNELLVILLE — Dream House for Medically Fragile Children has launched an eLearning curriculum to help nonmedical professionals learn more about caring for children with complex health issues.

The Family for Keeps Professional eCourse, developed and copyrighted by the Dream House, is geared toward case supervisors and managers and social workers involved with placement decisions for a child experiencing complex, chronic health care issues.
According to the Dream House, the training module allows for more effective supervisory support of the family caring for a medically fragile child through actual case scenarios.

“This eCourse was created to address ‘you don’t know what you don’t know’ about the specialized needs of medically complex children and the families caring for these children at home, in communities throughout the United States,” said Dream House Founder and CEO Laura Moore, foster parent to 12 medically fragile children and adoptive parent of one. “Understanding the scope of what that child and family face is paramount to making informed recommendations about the child’s future and well-being.”

Each course participant receives a manual and the eCourse includes documentation tips and tools to enable “best placement” decision making. At the end of the 10 to 12 hour course, participants will earn a Certificate of Completion that will then provide access to downloadable template forms for home studies, home safety check-lists and court reports.

“Training of this nature is not available anywhere else in the nation,” said Dream House Education Manager Toni Hubbard. “We have brought a revolutionary training tool to this core group of non-medical professionals, one they can pursue in the context of their very demanding schedules. What they learn will guide and direct how they assess cases involving medically fragile children — whether they encounter only one or many throughout their careers.”

The Family for Keeps Professional eCourse is the first of four copyrighted curriculums Dream House plans to covert to eLearning modules. Other Family for Keeps courses planned for release later this year are the Basic Caregiver Course, the Community Course and the Advanced Skills Training Workshop series.