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The Smoky Mountain Children's Home: a model for house parent accession, training and development
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The Smoky Mountain Children's Home: a Model for House Parent Accession, Training and Development. Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/2776b0ed-f846-4672-9cc9-7a76690fad53.APA citation style (7th ed.)
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- The Smoky Mountain Children's Home is located in Sevierville, Tennessee. The home is a Church of God Cleveland, Tennesee institution established around 1921, originally for the purpose of caring, training, and educating orphans to be Christians and sensible members of society. The program functioned from a Christian, parenting perspective; however, the Home operated with a staff of house parents who were loving but professionally untrained. The need to develop a professionally trained house parent staff was deduced from the challenges brought on by the increased problems presented by the late twentieth and early twenty-first century child, as well as from the lack of a coherent on-site training program. The strategic point of meeting the modern needs of the children is to improve parenting skills in house parents. This is a paradigm shift from the children to the house parents as they carry out the mission of the Home. The new program establishes two stages: 1. The hiring and training of new house parents; 2. The on-going training program with the core based on the Common Sense Parenting program from Boys Town. The new professional training program is in its third year. Generally, many house parents now think of themselves as professionals. There is an improvement in the children's behavior and some children see their house parent calmer as they confront a crisis.
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