Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
Facilitated Cohort Learning Sessions To Support ICWA Practice
  • Social Worker
  • Supervisors
  • English
  • 1.50 Participation
$0.00
Facilitated Cohort Learning Sessions To Support ICWA Practice provides former cohorts from RCT and SCT classes that are working on Indian Child Welfare cases to expand their knowledge beyond core training curriculum and gain application within live cases. Topics of the sessions are identified by the cohort members and learning activities are organized and facilitated by Alliance staff. These sessions will review current WA State ICWA practices while providing opportunities to apply critical thinking to the overall complexities of child welfare work.
Topic Support Group: Fostering as Part of a Team
  • Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • English
  • Support Groups
$0.00
As a caregiver for a child in the foster care system, you are part of a parenting team. The courts, the social worker, CASA, GAL, medical team, therapists and the child’s biological family all have a role to play. Knowing what your role is and how to partner with the other members of the child’s team improves the child’s care, your experience as a foster parent, and the long-term outcomes of the placement.
Topic Support Group: Navigating Fostering as a LGBTQIA+ Caregiver
  • Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • English
  • Support Groups
$0.00
As an LGBTQIA+ caregiver have you felt that your Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIE) impacts your fostering journey?In this supportive facilitated discussion group, you will get a chance to talk with other LGBTQIA+ kinship and foster caregivers about their experiences and share your own.  As a group, you will talk about useful tools and techniques for navigating common issues faced by LGBTIA+ caregivers and use these to develop strategies specifically for your family.
Topic Support Group: Practical Parenting Skills for Caregivers
  • Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • English
  • Support Groups
$0.00
It isn’t always easy to meet the complex needs of a child while navigating a new parental role. Foster parenting calls for a trauma-informed, mindful, and positive response to a wide variety of behaviors. In this supportive facilitated discussion group, you will work with fellow caregivers to develop practical parenting strategies that are trauma-informed, appropriate for the child, and suited to your home.
Topic Support Group: Littlest Lives and Their Big Needs - Parenting 0 to 2
  • Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • English
  • Support Groups
$0.00
As a parent of an infant or toddler, the earliest development years are among the most critical to a child’s long-term development. Children under 2 who are in foster care often require supports and approaches that are not so typical for their peers. You will talk through their needs, develop strategies to address those needs, and identify the resources available to help you support the littlest lives in care. You will also be able to build community with other caregivers of kids under 2 to share resources, experiences and problem-solving strategies.
Topic Support Group: Parenting in the Digital Age
  • Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • English
  • Support Groups
$0.00
Ready access to smart phones, tables, and computers has created a whole new world of challenges for parents of pre-teens and teens.  Youth do not need to leave their bedrooms be introduced to risky situations. And it is challenging for caregivers to know how guide children to appropriate use while keeping them safe. 
Topic Support Group: Supporting LGBTQIA+ Youth in Foster Care
  • Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • English
  • Support Groups
$0.00
Understanding your child’s identity is critical to providing them the care and support they need to navigate the development years. Children with an LGBTQIA+ identity may need additional support as they navigate extra social and cultural factors.  In this supportive facilitated discussion group, you will have an opportunity to talk through LGBTQIA+ terminology and identify concrete tools you can use to support a child’s LGBTQIA+ identity.
Topic Support Group: Grief and Loss in Your Foster Journey
  • Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • English
  • Support Groups
$0.00
As a caregiver for a child in the foster care system, grief and loss are an inherent part of your journey. You may be grieving a placement that isn’t going as expected or hoped. Even as you celebrate a child’s return home or to an adoptive placement, your family may be grieving the loss of a child or experiencing a sense of loss due to a disrupted placement.
Topic Support Group: Self Care for Caregivers
  • Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • English
  • Support Groups
  • 2.00 Participation
$0.00
As a new caregiver, the very best thing you can do for those who depend on you is to take care of yourself. This group will engage in conversations around how to make sure you see how valuable your contribution is, as well as also how demanding it can be. You can talk about challenges you’re facing when thinking about self-care, because real life does sometimes make it hard to prioritize. You’ll work toward developing an action plan that takes into account your unique circumstances and proactively addresses things that might derail your self-supporting activities.
Topic Support Group: FASD Trying Differently Rather Than Harder Book Club
  • Caregivers
  • Kinship Caregivers
  • English
  • Support Groups
$0.00
Join us for a Book Club! The CaRES team leads you through a reading and discussion of “Trying Differently Rather Than Harder: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders” by Diane Malbin. “Trying Different Rather Than Harder” is a readable, narrative discussion of the neurobehavioral approach to working with children and youth with FASD. The book focuses on understanding behaviors differently through case studies and examples of how FASD impacts everyday life.

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