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Cornell's Family Development Credential (FDC) system collaborates with state and local agencies to teach agency workers how to coach low-income families to set and reach their own goals for healthy self-reliance. Based on Cornell research, the interagency FDC program is available in communities across the state and country to frontline workers from all public, private and non-profit service systems (e.g. home visitors, case managers, family resource center workers, community health workers, and teacher aides). To earn the FDC, front-line workers take 90 hours of classes based on Empowerment Skills for Family Workers (Forest 2003), complete a portfolio documenting their ability to apply these concepts and skills, and pass a standardized exam. Since the first FDC credentials were issued by Cornell's School of Continuing Education in December, 1997, 5,369 front-line workers in New York State have earned the Cornell FDC and thousands more have earned it through affiliated systems in other states. The FDC emerged a decade ago from a research-policy collaborative between Cornell College of Human Ecology's Department of Human Development, and New York State's Council on Children and Families' Commissioners' Work Group on Family Support. Learn more about the Family Development Credentials. Eighteen other states and the District of Columbia have established affiliated systems with the Cornell Family Development Credential Program. For more information contact: Katie Palmer-House, kep26@cornell.edu.
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