Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
Chaos to Calm: Promoting Attachment in Out-of-Home Care
  • Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • English
$0.00
This 6 hour focused training for caregivers provides an in-depth exploration of secure attachment and challenges to attachment as well as building caregiver skills to enhance attachment with children in out of home care.
Compassionate Parenting
  • Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • English
  • 6.00 Participation
$0.00
Discover what compassion really is, how it starts by being compassionate with ourselves and see the positive results with our families and others.You’ll hear about and learn the roadblocks, hurdles and challenges that often prevent this kind of parenting and discover ways to move through them so you, and your children, win!Topics include:
Eating Disorders and Beyond
  • Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • English
$0.00
This 6-hour focused topic training for caregivers covers how to recognize and support disordered eating and recovery from disordered eating. Participants will learn when and how to seek professional help, feeding practices to encourage a positive eating environment for all ages, and reasons that hoarding occurs and how to respond to it.
Fostering Children and Youth Through Transition, Grief and Loss: Helping Children With Their Feelings
$0.00
Grief for children is the disruption of a bond, and in any foster situation, significant bonds have been disrupted or broken. This makes foster children more emotionally vulnerable when other losses occur. A friend may move, a pet dies, or a teacher goes on maternity leave. All these events placed the foster child in a very precarious position. This training will help you to understand that a lot more is on their emotional plate then on other children. You will learn how to address and support the child in a time of transition.
Healthy Sexual Development
  • Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • English
$0.00
This three hour webinar will provide you with tools and resources about Healthy Sexual Development needed to ensure the children in your care have the necessary information and support to become healthy adults. Upon completion, you will be able to identify what healthy sexual development is by age and stage of development, recognize your own possible discomfort in talking about healthy sexual development with children and youth, and you will be able to integrate healthy sexual development conversations with children and youth into everyday life.
Honoring Their History: Memory Preservation for Children in Care
  • Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • English
$0.00
Without memories, how do you understand who you are? These slices of life are tied to emotions, learning and growth, and help us maintain connections to our personal history and life story. Often we use tools like photographs or stories or memorabilia to recall feelings or look back on events. The new training “Honoring Their History: Memory Preservation for Children in Care” focuses on how to support a child’s well-being through the recording of memories and other parts of their life during their time away from their family.
Individual Learner Centered Skill Development for the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA)
  • Caregivers
  • 3.00 Participation
$0.00
Support sessions are utilized to address a caregiver’s specific needs and build specific skills. Identified goals are created and progress toward those goals is measured by both the learner and the coach after the session. Prior to scheduling a support session, caregivers need to complete the class “Parenting a Native American Child: Partnering in the Interest of Culture for Caregivers (eLearning).” This session provides in-depth support around specific topics identified by the caregiver as needed. The topics for this session may include:
Individual Learner Centered Skill Development on Caregivers Report to the Court
  • Caregivers
$0.00
This 2 hour coaching session for Caregivers builds upon information contained in Caregivers Core Training (CCT) and provides detailed training related to the writing and submitting of the Caregiver’s Report to the Court (DCFS 15-313). Participants will understand the caregiver’s role in the court process and how to effectively communicate with the court and other parties through the Caregiver’s Report to the Court.
Introduction to the Investigative Process for Caregivers
  • Caregivers
  • English
$0.00
Going through an investigation can be scary. Understanding the process, knowing your rights, and being informed about the laws and process can make it a lot easier. This course provides licensed and unlicensed caregivers a deep look at the Licensing Division (LD) Child Protective Services (CPS) and Licensing Investigation (LD) processes, starting with Intake, through the investigation, and concluding with the report and the potential for appeals.
Invitation to Aggression Replacement Training
  • Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • English
$0.00
This 6 hour focused topic training for caregivers teaches what drives aggressive behavior and develops skills required to give youth a chance for success. Caregivers will learn skills to teach the children in their care increased moral reasoning, how to replace antisocial behaviors with positive alternatives, and how to respond to anger in a nonaggressive manner.

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