• Preventing Child Abuse: Types, Signs, and Symptoms

    Virtual through LMS

    Preventing Child Abuse: Types, Signs & Symptoms will inform parents of the definition of child abuse and ways it can be prevented. It provides descriptions and statistics of different types […]

  • Services and Support for Foster and Adoptive Families

    Virtual through LMS

    Services & Support for Foster & Adoptive Families will inform parents about resources available to individuals with intellectual disabilities through the Michelle P. Waiver Program, which allows eligible individuals to […]

  • Transracial Parenting: Ages 12-18

    Virtual through LMS

    Transracial Parenting: Ages 12-18 explores the unique experiences of transracial foster/adoptive families and examines developmental stages of racial identity development in youth ages twelve to eighteen. The training provides strategies […]

  • Understanding and Coping with Sensory Processing Challenges

    Virtual through LMS

    Understanding and Coping with Sensory Processing Challenges provides parents with tools to engage and work with children who display sensory processing challenges. Parents will learn what Sensory Processing Disorder is […]

  • Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew

    Virtual through LMS

    Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew will equip foster and adoptive parents to understand the thoughts and feelings children who are adopted may experience. It offers strategies […]

  • Understanding the Brain and Fear Responses in Traumatized Children

    Virtual through LMS

    Understanding the Brain and Fear Responses in Traumatized Children provides an overview of brain development and how fight/flight/freeze fear responses may manifest in children who have experienced trauma. In addition, […]

  • ARC Meetings and IEPs: The Basics

    Virtual through LMS

    ARC Meetings & IEPs: The Basics will help foster and adoptive parents understand the process of an ARC Meeting and gain a better perspective of what an IEP will look […]

  • Child Development: Ages 0-5

    Virtual through LMS

    Child Development 0-5 explores the typical milestones, or skills, that children develop from birth through age 5. It offers resources that caregivers can utilize to determine if a developmental screening […]

  • Grief and Foster Care

    Virtual through LMS

    This course offers an exploration of the distinctive and complex grieving experience inherent in foster care and adoption, providing participants with a comprehensive understanding of the challenges and emotions associated […]

  • Transracial Parenting: Ages 0-5

    Virtual through LMS

    Transracial Parenting: Ages 0-5 explores the unique experiences of transracial families and examines developmental stages of racial identity development in young children. It offers strategies to create an environment that […]