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The "Parenting Teens" series comprises seven parts for prospective and current foster, adoptive, kinship and guardian parents who are or will be raising older children from foster care who have moderate to severe emotional and behavioral challenges.
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.
Topic Support Group: Parenting Teens
This facilitated discussion group is a continuation of the seven-part “Parenting Teens” webinar.
Topic Support Group: Fostering While Parenting, Supporting Our Biological and Adopted Children
When you have children who live at home with you, becoming a foster parent also means becoming a foster family. Growing up with foster siblings comes with unique challenges but there are strategies you can use to help your bio and adopted kids adapt and thrive!
Advanced Adoption: Effects of Trauma and Loss on Adopted Children
For many children in foster care, the path up to, including and even after adoption can include trauma, grief and loss. As a potential adoptive parent, it’s crucial that you understand the story a foster child is bringing to you and what part you can play in that.
Building Life Skills for Drug Impacted Children
This 3-hour focused topic training for caregivers will focus on how children exposed to prenatal substance abuse in their life have an increased chance of experiencing many effects, such as poor social, cognitive, and emotional development, physical, mental, and health issues, depression, anxiety
Impacts of Prenatal Drug Exposure
This 3-hour focused topic training for caregivers will identify and address the various types of drugs used during pregnancy; the impacts those drugs have on the Infant, toddler, and school-age child; and recognize the effects of prenatal drug exposure so caregivers can be proactive in their care
Caring for Drug Impacted Infants and Toddlers
This 3-hour focused topic training for caregivers provides an in-depth exploration of Drug Impacted Infants and Toddlers.
Engaging Youth In Group Care — Foundational Module 1: Understanding the Impact of Trauma
The “Engaging Youth In Group Care” series is composed of seven modules for those working with youth in a group care setting who have moderate to severe emotional and behavioral challenges.