Advanced Guardian ad Litem Training

Online training process:

1. Register online
2. Select one of the training modules below
3. Complete all steps
4. When you have completed all parts of the training module, complete the GAL Advanced Online Training Completion Form and fax or mail it to Elsbeth Pelter.
5. As soon as we receive your completed form your name will be added to the Supreme Court’s list of GALs with completed advanced training.

Training Module One:

1. Watch: Dr. Lott's Presentation: Visitation for Children Placed Out of Home: Goals, Objectives and Strategies
2. Read: Visitation with Infants and Toddlers in Foster Care: What Judges and Attorney's Need to Know

Training Module Two:

1. Watch at least three hours of the following presentations:
   
   Dr. Mark Hald, Child Development, (48:52)
   Dr. Mark Hald, Parenting Time, (21:26)
   Lisa Blunt, Infant Mental Health Assessment and Parent-Child Dyadic Therapy
   Bunnell and Luebbers, Early Intervention, (23:57)
   Bunnell and Luebbers, CAPTA, (18:22)
   Kathy Carter, HHS Statistics, (10:04) Note: data charts used are difficult to read.
   Judge Douglas Johnson, Family Drug Treatment Court, (26:55)
   Judge Douglas Johnson, Pre-Hearing Conferences
   

Training Module Three:

1. Watch Part One of Dr Sturgis' Presentation: Getting the Most out of Psychological Evaluations in the Child Welfare Court System(49:20)
2. Watch Part Two of Dr Sturgis'Presentation: Getting the Most out of Psychological Evaluations in the Child Welfare Court System (51:50)
3. Read: Mental and Physical Conditions.

Advanced Training Completion Form