Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
African American Hair and Skin Care
  • Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • English
$0.00
This focused topic training for caregivers, social workers and supervisors teaches participants to understand the complexity of caring for African American and biracial hair and skin. Participants will gain skills and knowledge to be culturally responsive to the needs of the children/youth in their care. The provider will demonstrate how to properly wash, dry and style (including braiding) for African American children and youth in their care. The provider will give resource tools on how participants get the appropriate hair and skin products for children/youth.
Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • English
$0.00
This 6-hour focused topic training for caregivers develops an understanding of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) as presented in DSM 5 and alternate behavioral descriptions from Daniel Amen MD. The training also covers the common developmental course of ADHD and a 7 Step Intervention pathway for home and school success.
Behavior Management Tools for Foster Parents and Caregivers
  • Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • English
$0.00
This 6 hour focused training for caregivers provides a foundation for understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) and challenging or escalating behavior among children in out-of-home care. The training provides specific behavior management skills for caregivers to deescalate and manage behavior including trauma informed caregiving, authoritative parenting, therapeutic environments, engagement, and more.This workshop will give caregivers practical tools to help manage behaviors such as:
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.
Emotion Coaching
  • Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • English
$0.00
Emotion Coaching is a research based method from the Talaris Institute and the Gottman Institute that gives caregivers a way to help children learn about emotions. Research shows that when caregivers value and guide emotions using this important method, children do better in many ways.These children tend to:
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.
Identifying and Supporting Commercially Sexually Exploited Children for Caregivers
  • Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • English
  • 3.00 Participation
$0.00
This 3 hour in-service level training will help caregivers identify and support youth who are at risk for or are being commercially sexually exploited. The training will provide a framework for understanding this issue that greatly impacts adolescents in the child welfare system, as well as for understanding the basic practices that support helping these youth reach positive outcomes.

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