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ForwardTopic Support Group: Fostering as Part of a Team
As a caregiver for a child in the foster care system, you are part of a parenting team. The courts, the social worker, CASA, GAL, medical team, therapists and the child’s biological family all have a role to play.
Topic Support Group: Navigating Fostering as a LGBTQIA+ Caregiver
As an LGBTQIA+ caregiver have you felt that your Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIE) impacts your fostering journey?
Topic Support Group: Practical Parenting Skills for Caregivers
It isn’t always easy to meet the complex needs of a child while navigating a new parental role. Foster parenting calls for a trauma-informed, mindful, and positive response to a wide variety of behaviors.
Topic Support Group: Littlest Lives and Their Big Needs - Parenting 0 to 2
As a parent of an infant or toddler, the earliest development years are among the most critical to a child’s long-term development. Children under 2 who are in foster care often require supports and approaches that are not so typical for their peers.
Topic Support Group: Parenting in the Digital Age
Ready access to smart phones, tables, and computers has created a whole new world of challenges for parents of pre-teens and teens. Youth do not need to leave their bedrooms be introduced to risky situations.
Topic Support Group: Supporting LGBTQIA+ Youth in Foster Care
Understanding your child’s identity is critical to providing them the care and support they need to navigate the development years.
Topic Support Group: Grief and Loss in Your Foster Journey
As a caregiver for a child in the foster care system, grief and loss are an inherent part of your journey. You may be grieving a placement that isn’t going as expected or hoped.
Topic Support Group: Self Care for Caregivers
As a new caregiver, the very best thing you can do for those who depend on you is to take care of yourself. This group will engage in conversations around how to make sure you see how valuable your contribution is, as well as also how demanding it can be.
Topic Support Group: FASD Trying Differently Rather Than Harder Book Club
Join us for a Book Club! The CaRES team leads you through a reading and discussion of “Trying Differently Rather Than Harder: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders” by Diane Malbin.
Topic Support Group: Dancing With a Porcupine Book Club
Join us for Book Club! The CaRES team leads you through a reading and discussion of “Dancing with a Porcupine” by Jennie Owens.