Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
Impacts of Parental Mental Health on Child Safety
  • Area Administrators
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
$0.00
Participants will be engaged to consider their own thoughts, beliefs, and biases about mental illness; understand basic definitions associated with parental mental illness and child safety; and identify family assessment strategies that can focus on the intersection between parental mental illness and child safety. Additionally, ideas and tools for drafting effective case plans and objectives to achieve child safety with parental mental illness is a factor will also be discussed.
Caregiving for Children With Physically Aggressive Behavior Concerns (eLearning)
  • Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • English
  • 4.00 Participation
$0.00
This eLearning course for caregivers provides a foundation for caregiving and behavior management for children in out-of-home care who struggle with physically aggressive behaviors. You will explore the potential impacts of trauma and maltreatment on attachment, behavior and development as well as the risk factors for violent behavior in children. You will review the Washington Administrative Code (WAC) related to discipline and will contrast principles of positive discipline and punishment.
Regional Core Training
  • Social Worker
  • English
  • 320.00 Participation
$0.00
Regional Core Training (RCT) is Washington State’s pre-service foundational training designed to prepare newly hired social service specialists with the basic knowledge, skills, and understanding to begin their careers in public child welfare for the State of Washington. RCT is a comprehensive training containing multiple sessions which lay the foundation for continuous on-the-job learning and professional development critical to developing competent, confident, and effective child welfare professionals.
The Inherent Strengths of Kinship Families
  • Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • English
$0.00
 The Inherent Strengths in Kinship Families is a training series developed by Dr. Joseph Crumbley for kinship caregivers. The series takes a strength-based perspective in outlining different topics that are unique to kinship families and providing strategies for caregivers.
Parenting in Racially and Culturally Diverse Families
  • Caregivers
$0.00
This course helps participants understand the impact of parenting children from different racial/ethnic/cultural backgrounds and to know how to honor and incorporate child’s race/ethnicity/culture into their existing family system. Strategies are identified to help children develop positive and proud identities and to help children and families prepare for and handle racism in all forms.
Building Parental Resilience for Kinship Caregivers
  • Caregivers
$0.00
This course helps participants understand the importance of self-care and practical ideas for how to do it. Participants will understand signs of stress and burnout and recognize the importance of maintaining their mental, physical, emotional and spiritual well-being. The course also covers parental resilience, why resilience is important, and how caring for children who have experienced trauma, separation, or loss can impact a caregiver’s own well-being. Participants will also learn about the behaviors that foster a protective environment for parents and children.
CaRES Special Events: Kinship Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
$0.00
We would like to support your journey as a relative taking care of another family member. As a Kinship provider you are always welcome to take any of the training offered by the Alliance or CaRES. Each of these listed special events are planned with Kinship families in mind and provides an opportunity for kinship caregivers to build skills and knowledge related to kinship care and to talk through strategies with other caregivers that support the related needs of the children in their homes.  Participants who attend will receive credit for 2 training hours per session.
CaRES Special Events: Caregivers
  • Area Administrators
  • Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • Program Managers
  • Supervisors
$0.00
CaRES is offering special one-time events with local experts who will share the most up-to-date information, resources and support on topics relevant to caregiving. Foster and kinship caregivers can expand their understanding of these special topics, learn the latest approaches, and build strategies that support the related needs of the children in their homes.  Participants who attend will receive credit for 2 training hours per session.
Child Development
  • Caregivers
$0.00
This course helps participants understand typical child development as well as disrupted child development. Developmental delays and how to meet children’s developmental needs are also covered in this theme. The unique challenges associated with parenting children from each developmental stage are highlighted.
Cultural Humility
  • Caregivers
$0.00
This course provides participants with an overview of cultural humility and helps participants recognize the importance of honoring a child's cultural identity. Content also covers respecting families from varying races, religions, ethnicities, and economic statuses. Openness to a child’s sexual orientation and gender identity and expression and viewing these differences from a strengths-based perspective is highlighted.

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