“Quality trainings for my staff and me have
helped us to stay in compliance with annual training requirements.”
~ Bruce Anderson, CEO San Mar

MARFY Trainings, Annual Conference & Special Events :

The Maryland Association of Resources for
Families and Youth
Annual Youth Achievement Awards Banquet

 Wednesday, April 16, 2008
6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.

Michael's 8th Avenue, Glen Burnie, MD

Special Guest Speaker: Ashley Rhodes-Courter

 This banquet will honor those youths nominated by their
MARFY member agencies for outstanding achievement.
We will also give an award to adult nominees from
MARFY member agencies for
Child Care Worker of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.

We hope you will be able to join us for this night of celebration!

Ashley Rhodes-Courter wrote her book “Three Little Words” (chosen as one of Barnes and Noble’s Discovery titles) as a way to piece together the puzzle of her past and also to thank those who step up for child welfare issues every day. An advocate for adoption and foster care reform, twenty-two-year-old Ashley has been featured in Teen People, Glamour, and USA Today. This memoir began as an essay, also titled "Three Little Words," which won a writing contest for students, and ran in New York Times Magazine. Ashley lives in Florida and is a recent graduate from Eckerd College.

We are honored to have Ashley speak at MARFY’s Awards Banquet and we hope that her incredible story and accomplishments will inspire the youth of our agencies and touch the hearts of all those who work with these children.

For the Awards Nomination Form, click here.

For the RSVP Form, click here.

Don’t miss this amazing opportunity to inspire the children in your agency and to be inspired, yourself.

If you have questions, please contact Virginia at 410-974-4901, ext. 4 or vholt@marfy.org.

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Register online for MARFY trainings!

The Maryland Association of Resources for Families and Youth (MARFY) offers a professional training program for individuals that work with Maryland's most vulnerable children and families. We offer approximately 35 workshops a year for direct care workers in residential and non-residential programs, clinicians, i.e. social workers, therapists, psychologists and administrators. We are looking to expand and improve our training workshops and would like for you to submit a proposal to our training program. If you have a workshop that can benefit this target audience, we would like to know about it and possibly offer it to employees of child and family serving agencies throughout Maryland.

Workshops are full days (9 AM-4:30 PM, including lunch). MARFY is privileged to offer CEUs to social workers, professional therapists and counselors, and psychologists to training participants. If you have a workshop that is half day, indicate that in your proposal. If you do not indicate that information, we will assume it is for a full day.

If you are a current MARFY trainer and recently developed a new training workshop, please send in your proposal also. The subjects that are covered are generally in the areas of child welfare, juvenile justice, mental health, substance abuse, ethics, administration, etc.

Once submitted, the proposal will be reviewed by MARFY's training committee. If your proposal is selected, I will get in contact with you on possible dates, locations, etc. The following components should be included in the proposal:

• name of workshop
• description of workshop
• learning objectives
• outline on length of training
• target audience
• trainer fee
• brief bio of trainer
• contact information

Submit your proposal to Heidi Holland  via email, hholland@marfy.org or fax, 410-757-9530.

Please contact Heidi Holland if you have any questions at 410-974-4901 ext. 6 link