Northwest Media President, CEO to Participate in MSSA Conference

March 14, 2011 - PRLog -- Northwest Media, Inc.™ President and CEO Lee White will attend the Minnesota Social Service Association’s 118th Annual Training Conference & Expo, March 21-24 in Minneapolis. This marks Mr. White’s first time at the MSSA Conference.

Charley Joyce, FosterParentCollege.com™ instructor and PATH Inc., ND supervisor, will also attend. White and Joyce will each present twice and will have a booth in the Exhibit Hall.

In his role as president and co-founder of FosterParentCollege.com™, White will lead a workshop on “Exploring Using Online In-Service Parent Training as a Budget Cutting Alternative,” at 1:45 p.m. on Tuesday, March 22. In his role as president and founder of VStreet.com®, he will present “Online Life Skills Curricula & Mentoring Tools” at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Mr. Joyce, LICSW, will talk about “Survival Behaviors in Foster-Adoptive Care: Hoarding Food & Wetting Behaviors,” at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday. Then at 1:15 p.m. he will lead a three-hour institute on “The Impact of Providing Foster Care on Foster Parents and Their Children.” Joyce is social work supervisor at PATH, Inc. of North Dakota; an author; and a faculty member at FosterParentCollege.com™.

Mr. White and Mr. Joyce will host a booth in the Exhibit Hall on Tuesday and Wednesday and invite conference attendees to stop by.

FosterParentCollege.com™ offers online, interactive multimedia courses for adoptive, kinship and foster parents. FosterParentCollege.com™ is:
•   Rated by the California Evidence-based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare
•   Endorsed by the Foster Family-based Treatment Association and the Canadian Foster Family Association
•   Approved by CASA and the National Adoption Center
•   Approved for NASW CEUs.

VStreet.com® is a comprehensive online life skills site for youth in transition.

For more information, please visit www.fosterparentcollege.com  or www.vstreet.com or call toll-free 800-777-6636. FosterParentCollege.com™ and VStreet.com® are divisions of Northwest Media, Inc.™

For more information about this article, contact Lisa Siegle at press@northwestmedia.com .

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FosterParentCollege.com provides affordable, research-based, interactive, online classes for foster, adoptive and kinship caregivers. Courses are taught by psychologists, pediatricians, behavior specialists and educators and are proven effective.