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ForwardTopic 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.
Parenting Teens
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!
Kinship Core Training
Kinship Core Training (KCT) is designed to help kinship caregivers develop the skills they need to care for children who have experienced complex trauma. KCT is intended to meet the training requirements for those kinship caregivers pursuing licensing.
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.