• Helping Your Child Succeed in School

    Virtual through LMS

    Helping Your Child to Succeed in School will increase the ability of foster/adoptive parents to understand educational challenges faced by foster/adopted children. It will give resource parents the tools for […]

  • 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 […]

  • Compulsive Lying

    Virtual through LMS

    Compulsive Lying explores why a child may lie compulsively. It identifies strategies and offers resources designed to assist children and their families dealing with this issue. After completing this training, […]

  • Learning Your Child Has a Disability

    Virtual through LMS

    Learning Your Child Has a Disability aims to help foster and adoptive parents understand the unique emotions of discovering or confirming a child in their care has a disability. This […]

  • A Guide to Coping with Allegations

    Virtual through LMS

    A Guide to Coping with Allegations explores the prevalence of false allegations of abuse and neglect amongst foster homes and reasons such allegations may arise. Strategies for preventing false allegations […]

  • Trauma Informed Care: Navigating Care with Compassion

    Virtual through LMS

    This training empowers foster and adoptive families to understand and respond to the effects of trauma with empathy and sensitivity. Participants will learn strategies to create a safe, supportive environment […]

  • New Placements: Preparing and Adjusting Family Roles

    Virtual through LMS

    New Placements: Preparing & Adjusting Family Roles will help foster and adoptive parents introduce new placements into their existing family units. It gives ideas and strategies on how to prepare […]

  • Developmental Stages and Children’s Responses to Grief

    Virtual through LMS

    Developmental Stages & Children’s Responses to Grief defines grief and explores how children process and express grief at different developmental stages. It offers insight into the unique experiences of grief […]

  • 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, […]

  • Sibling Attachment and Adoption

    Virtual through LMS

    Sibling Attachment & Adoption provides parents with tools to promote healthy sibling relationships in foster and adoptive families. Parents will explore different ways in which families are formed and learn […]

  • Understanding a Case Through the Child Welfare System

    Virtual through LMS

    Understanding a Case Through the Child Welfare System will provide foster and adoptive parents knowledge on how a case progresses through the child welfare system. Each case may include removal, […]