Instructor Outline for In-Service DC - 1025
DC - 1025 Attendance Acknowledgement
In-Service • Indiana AFCH • Michigan AFC CEU Catalog
Learn how to use social media thoughtfully and professionally to strengthen your adult family care home’s brand. This concise Indiana in-service—featured in Direct Care Training & Resource Center, Inc.’s Michigan Adult Foster Care CEU catalog—helps managers protect reputation, communicate clearly, and attract the right audience without compromising ethics or dignity.
Define who you are as an adult family care home, what makes your service different, and which audiences you should reach with your social media presence so every post supports your brand.
Review the strengths of common platforms and decide where your messages belong. Learn to match Facebook, Instagram, and other tools to your goals and to your community’s expectations.
Explore how to handle comments, reviews, and complaints without violating privacy or dignity. Recognize what should never be posted and how to keep communication aligned with policy and law.
Use photos and stories in a way that feels uplifting—not exploitative. Learn consent considerations and how to showcase your home’s strengths while respecting residents and families.
Connect your social media efforts to overall quality, professionalism, and compliance in Indiana adult family care homes and Michigan Adult Foster Care programs using this course in broader CEU plans.
Use this in-service to guide staff discussions, refresh your marketing approach, and ensure that any social media presence reflects the professionalism of your Indiana adult family care home and your Michigan Adult Foster Care partnerships.
The examples are Indiana-focused, but the principles apply to many small residential care operations. Michigan Adult Foster Care providers and other long-term care managers can use the same strategies when planning social media and brand development.
Yes. The DC 1025 outline is designed to support group presentation and discussion. You can present the material, lead conversation about your local policies, and then document participation using the attendance acknowledgement.
The course appears in Direct Care Training & Resource Center, Inc.’s Michigan Adult Foster Care CEU catalog. Its focus on communication, reputation, and community relations can be integrated into CEU plans where consistent with licensing expectations and agency policy.
DC 1025 is intentionally concise, with two focused lessons. It is often used as part of a one-session in-service that can be completed within a typical staff meeting block, depending on the depth of your discussion and local examples.
When staff complete the course through the Thinkific platform, a certificate of completion can be downloaded for personnel files, in-service documentation, and AFC/AFCH training records.
