Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
Parenting Teens
  • Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • English
$0.00
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
  • Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • English
  • Support Groups
$0.00
Join us for Book Club! The CaRES team leads you through a reading and discussion of “Dancing with a Porcupine” by Jennie Owens.“Dancing with a Porcupine” shares the compelling story of the author’s struggle to save her own life while caring for three children she and her husband adopted from foster care.In the three sessions, you will discuss themes including: self-care; trauma-informed care; expectations and hurt feelings; compassion fatigue; and balancing real life with the outside pressure to look like you are doing it all well.
Topic Support Group: Fostering While Parenting, Supporting Our Biological and Adopted Children
  • Caregivers
  • English
  • Support Groups
$0.00
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!During both sessions of this supportive facilitated discussion, you will collaborate with fellow caregivers to identify some of the unique challenges bio and adopted kids face, consider the impact fostering may have on your children, and share strategies you can use to nurture strength and resilience as a family unit.
Kinship Core Training
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • English
  • 12.00 Participation
$0.00
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.KCT consists of the four sessions listed below and can be taken in full or individually in any order. Check with your licensing contact to determine the right plan for you.
Advanced Adoption: Effects of Trauma and Loss on Adopted Children
  • Caregivers
  • English
$0.00
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.
Intake (eLearning)
  • Social Worker
  • English
$0.00
The Intake In-Service course, which will support new staff working at Intake to gain the knowledge and skills they need to be effective in gathering and documenting information and in screening intakes. The course is divided into three modules which occur at different times during the employee’s first six months at Intake.
De-escalation for Administrative Staff: Managing Crises (eLearning)
  • English
  • 0.75 Participation
$0.00
As an administrative professional you are important, and so is your safety!  This eLearning will help you learn how more effectively manage a situation that has become a crisis and may involve threats to someone’s safety. The key insights in this course relate to:
Identifying and Supporting Commercially Sexually Exploited Children for Caregivers (eLearning)
  • Caregivers
  • English
  • 1.50 Participation
$0.00
This 90-minute in-service level course 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. 
Parenting a Native American Child: Partnering in the Interest of Culture (eLearning)
  • Caregivers
  • Racial Equity and Social Justice (RESJ)
  • English
  • 3.00 Participation
$0.00
This 3 hour eLearning provides Caregivers with an introduction to the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), tribal sovereignty and the impacts on foster parenting.  The Indian Child Welfare Act obliges child welfare agencies and caregivers to take certain steps to protect and preserve the rights and cultural and familial connections of children covered by the act.
Coaching for Motivational Interviewing Competency Assessment (MICA)
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
$0.00
Staff who have completed the Introduction and Advanced Motivational Interviewing courses will be provided field support through MICA coding/coaching sessions to enhance MI skills directly in their work with families. MICA coding and coaching sessions assist learners with utilizing specific MI skills and to ensure model fidelity in these three identified areas:ReflectionChange TalkIntention

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