Redlands Christian Migrant Association

is

Transforming the Way Florida Agencies

Work with Families

by offering two credentials:

Family Development Credential

(FDC) for frontline Family Support Workers, Community Health Workers, Center Directors, Case Workers and others.
The FDC curriculum is based on the premise that all people, all families have hopes and dreams for a richer, fuller life. Sometimes the “how?” and “can I?” for an individual or a family needs encouragement, support, and perhaps even cultivating. This curriculum will give the family service worker the tools, support, and desire to be this strength-encourager to families. To “power-with” families in their pursuits for a better life.

Family Development Leadership Credential

(FDLC) for supervisors working in human services agencies.
The Family Development Leadership Credential (FDCL) is a component of the Family Development Credential (FDC) curriculum. It provides professional development training for frontline supervisors and other leaders interested in using empowerment-based leadership in their agencies. Leaders who already have FDC-credentialed staff in their organization will be able to enhance their organization’s capacity for providing empowerment-based support using the same principles and practices that their family workers use with families. Leaders who are unfamiliar with the FDC will learn practical ways to build their organizational capacities in areas of empowerment-based supervision, interagency collaboration, strengths-based assessment, multicultural competence and personal self-empowerment.

Florida Gulf Coast University issues the FDC and

St. Petersburg College issues the FDLC Credential Certificates

Curricula for both the FDC (Empowerment Skills for Family Workers) and FDLC (Empowerment Skills for Leaders) were developed at Cornell University’s College of Human Ecology by Claire Forest, Ph.D.