Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
Afterhours Core Training
  • Social Worker
$0.00
NOTE: Afterhours Core Training has four modules. You will register separately for each part of the module but you MUST complete each session within the module in order. For example, if you have not completed 1.1 you will not be allowed to participate in 1.2. However, you can complete module 2.1 before modules 1.2 or 1.3.
Introduction to Positive Discipline
  • Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • Parenting and Family Management
  • English
$0.00
An Introduction to Positive Discipline is a 2-hour in-service level training for foster, kinship and suitable adult caregivers. This introductory training will help caregivers learn the basic parenting approach of the Positive Discipline model by providing several group activities and discussions based in real life scenarios. Positive Discipline focuses on teaching valuable social and life skills to children instead of using any form of punishment, rewards, praise, permissiveness or logical consequences.
Introduction to Adoption From Foster Care
  • Caregivers
  • English
$0.00
This 3-hour in-service training for caregivers provides an introduction to the adoption process including the homestudy, adoption support, the legal process and steps to adoption. This training is open to all participants: those who have not taken Caregiver Core Training, those who have, and those who are using the training as a field placement. This training helps caregivers consider their decisions around public and private agencies and whether to foster to adopt or pursue adoption only.
NAIR: Creating and Monitoring Your Native American Inquiry Request
  • Social Worker
  • English
  • Participation
$0.00
This in-service level training will teach participants the steps for identifying Indian Children, address practical steps to input information into FamLink, and give DCYF child welfare staff tips on completing Ancestry Charts and submitting referrals to the Native American Inquiry Request (NAIR) unit to fulfill the requirements of the Federal ICWA, State Law and DCYF child welfare policies.
Relative/Kinship Caregiving: Navigating Change and Supporting the Children in Your Care
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • English
$0.00
You made the choice to step in and provide care for a child when they needed it. This choice changed your life, the life of the child or children you are caring for, and potentially many other family members. This course explores how to navigate changing relationships between adults as well as the feelings and behaviors of the children. You’ll spend time in class focusing on yourself, too, looking at how you can cope and care for yourself through the inevitable ups and downs.
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.
Paper Trail: Documentation Training for Caregivers
  • Caregivers
  • English
$0.00
To remember an idea, you might write it down. At an event, you might take a picture. As a caregiver, you are the custodian of the milestones and memories of a child’s life for the whole welfare team, so understanding how and why to document elements of that is crucial. This 1.5-hour in-service training will cover best practices for documentation to prepare and support you and others involved in the child’s life, with the ultimate goal of sharing information, concerns and progress.
Identifying and Supporting Commercially Sexually Exploited Children for Caregivers
  • Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • English
  • 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.
Caregiver's Responsibility in Supporting Family Time
  • Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • English
$0.00
As a caregiver, you can play multiple roles on a child’s care team, including being a supervisor for Family Time. This training gives you an introduction to the requirements of these visits and will guide you through evaluating your own potential appropriateness to take on this responsibility. If you aren’t familiar with Family Time, the course gives a clear definition of what it is and how you are both expected and invited to participate.
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:

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