University of Kentucky College of Social Work

Learning Your Child Has A Disability
2023-07-27 17:00 - 2023-09-18 18:30 (America/Chicago)
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 training will also offer tips and strategies to help foster and adoptive families cope with these feelings and challenges.
After completing this training, participants will be able to:

Identify the common feelings and emotions of learning or confirming a child has a disability.
Utilize constructive tips and strategies to cope with these emotions

ASK-VIP trainings are expressly designed to meet the needs of foster and adoptive parents. Skilled trainers who have lived experiences with fostering and adoption provide these trainings in a virtual group setting. There is 1.5 hours of ongoing, elective foster parent training credit available for Kentucky’s foster parents.
Create an account or log-in to register for this training. A reliable internet connection and a smartphone, tablet, or computer with web camera is needed to participate. If there are two adults in the same household that want to participate in this training, each person must register separately. Foster parent training credit is administered based on the duration of the meeting and each attendee’s participation. Training credit is only available if you have not participated in this training within the past twelve months.
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If you have any questions about this training or how to register, please email ask@uky.edu or call 859-257-7361.

Services & Support For Foster & Adoptive Families
2023-09-18 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
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 remain in their homes with services and supports. In addition, participants will learn about SSI, finding biological parents, and the importance of planning for independent living for foster youth.
After completing this training, participants will be able to:

Describe the Michelle P. Waiver Program and Social Security (SSI) benefits.
Utilize available resources and independent living services offered through the Cabinet for Health and Family Services for youth aging out of care.

ASK-VIP trainings are expressly designed to meet the needs of foster and adoptive parents. Skilled trainers who have lived experiences with fostering and adoption provide these trainings in a virtual group setting. There is 1.5 hours of ongoing, elective foster parent training credit available for Kentucky’s foster parents.
Create an account or log-in to register for this training. A reliable internet connection and a smartphone, tablet, or computer with web camera is needed to participate. If there are two adults in the same household that want to participate in this training, each person must register separately. Foster parent training credit is administered based on the duration of the meeting and each attendee’s participation. Training credit is only available if you have not participated in this training within the past twelve months.
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If you have any questions about this training or how to register, please email ask@uky.edu or call 859-257-7361.

ARC Meetings & IEPs: The Basics
2023-09-19 10:30 - 12:00 (America/Kentucky/Louisville)
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 like. It offers strategies and ideas to help parents be prepared the ARC meetings. This training also offers sample IEP goals and objectives to give foster and adoptive parents some deeper understanding of what these will look like when an IEP is written for the child in their home.
After completing this training, participants will be able to:

Prepare for and participate in ARC meetings
Understand IEP goals and objectives to collaborate with school personnel in writing a child’s IEP

ASK-VIP trainings are expressly designed to meet the needs of foster and adoptive parents. Skilled trainers who have lived experiences with fostering and adoption provide these trainings in a virtual group setting. There is 1.5 hours of ongoing, elective foster parent training credit available for Kentucky’s foster parents.
Create an account or log-in to register for this training. A reliable internet connection and a smartphone, tablet, or computer with web camera is needed to participate. If there are two adults in the same household that want to participate in this training, each person must register separately. Foster parent training credit is administered based on the duration of the meeting and each attendee’s participation. Training credit is only available if you have not participated in this training within the past twelve months.
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If you have any questions about this training or how to register, please email ask@uky.edu or call 859-257-7361.

Developmental Stages & Children’s Responses To Grief
2023-09-19 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
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 and loss that children who have been separated from their biological family may experience. It also provides strategies to help children cope with emotional reactions to grief.
After completing this training, participants will be able to:

Identify stages of grief and how it is expressed in children.
Explain strategies that can be used to help children cope with emotional reactions to grief.

ASK-VIP trainings are expressly designed to meet the needs of foster and adoptive parents. Skilled trainers who have lived experiences with fostering and adoption provide these trainings in a virtual group setting. There is 1.5 hours of ongoing, elective foster parent training credit available for Kentucky’s foster parents.
Create an account or log-in to register for this training. A reliable internet connection and a smartphone, tablet, or computer with web camera is needed to participate. If there are two adults in the same household that want to participate in this training, each person must register separately. Foster parent training credit is administered based on the duration of the meeting and each attendee’s participation. Training credit is only available if you have not participated in this training within the past twelve months.
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If you have any questions about this training or how to register, please email ask@uky.edu or call 859-257-7361.

Helping Your Child Make Healthy & Positive Choices: Talking To Teens & Preteens
2023-09-20 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Chicago)
Helping Your Child Make Healthy & Positive Choices: Talking to Teens & Preteens will teach foster and adoptive parents the importance of open and ongoing dialogue with their preteen or teen about the tough issues they will face throughout their adolescent years, with the goal being to help their child to begin making healthy choices early in life.
After completing this training, participants will be able to:

Articulate the importance of initiating dialogue early on with their preteen or teen about tough issues and setting healthy limits.
Identify practical ways to approach communication about tough topics, such as sex, drug/alcohol and violence and identify common signs that a child may need professional help in dealing with issues.

ASK-VIP trainings are expressly designed to meet the needs of foster and adoptive parents. Skilled trainers who have lived experiences with fostering and adoption provide these trainings in a virtual group setting. There is 1.5 hours of ongoing, elective foster parent training credit available for Kentucky’s foster parents.
Create an account or log-in to register for this training. A reliable internet connection and a smartphone, tablet, or computer with web camera is needed to participate. If there are two adults in the same household that want to participate in this training, each person must register separately. Foster parent training credit is administered based on the duration of the meeting and each attendee’s participation. Training credit is only available if you have not participated in this training within the past twelve months.
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If you have any questions about this training or how to register, please email ask@uky.edu or call 859-257-7361.

Healthy Boundaries In Teenage Relationships
2023-09-21 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Healthy Boundaries in Teenage Relationships explores healthy and unhealthy dating behaviors. It is designed to assist caregivers in identifying warning signs that a teen may be involved in an abusive dating relationship and provides suggestions for talking to teens and/or their friends who find themselves involved in such relationships.
After completing this training, participants will be able to:

Identify signs that a teen is being abused in a relationship
Explain strategies to address when a teen is being abused in a relationship.

ASK-VIP trainings are expressly designed to meet the needs of foster and adoptive parents. Skilled trainers who have lived experiences with fostering and adoption provide these trainings in a virtual group setting. There is 1.5 hours of ongoing, elective foster parent training credit available for Kentucky’s foster parents.
Create an account or log-in to register for this training. A reliable internet connection and a smartphone, tablet, or computer with web camera is needed to participate. If there are two adults in the same household that want to participate in this training, each person must register separately. Foster parent training credit is administered based on the duration of the meeting and each attendee’s participation. Training credit is only available if you have not participated in this training within the past twelve months.
REGISTER NOW
If you have any questions about this training or how to register, please email ask@uky.edu or call 859-257-7361.

Internet Safety
2023-09-21 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
The Internet Safety training explores questions caregivers often have related to internet safety. It examines recommended guidelines for internet access and usage among children. It provides resources related to parental controls designed to monitor internet usage and offers strategies for discussing internet safety with children and youth.
After completing this training, participants will be able to:

Discuss safe internet use with children.
Utilize tools to monitor internet use.

ASK-VIP trainings are expressly designed to meet the needs of foster and adoptive parents. Skilled trainers who have lived experiences with fostering and adoption provide these trainings in a virtual group setting. There is 1.5 hours of ongoing, elective foster parent training credit available for Kentucky’s foster parents.
Create an account or log-in to register for this training. A reliable internet connection and a smartphone, tablet, or computer with web camera is needed to participate. If there are two adults in the same household that want to participate in this training, each person must register separately. Foster parent training credit is administered based on the duration of the meeting and each attendee’s participation. Training credit is only available if you have not participated in this training within the past twelve months.
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If you have any questions about this training or how to register, please email ask@uky.edu or call 859-257-7361.

Ten Things Every Pediatrician Should Know About Children In Care
2023-09-22 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Ten Things Every Pediatrician Should Know About Children in Care will equip foster and adoptive parents to better understand the unique medical factors children in care face. This training will also offer some tips and ideas to help foster and adoptive families work with health care staff and professionals at addressing these characteristics in order to provide effective and competent medical care for children who are in foster care or have been adopted.
After completing this training, participants will be able to:

Utilize strategies to present appropriate information to health care providers to help ensure competent medical care for foster and adoptive children.
Articulate unique challenges that foster and adoptive children face in regards to their medical care.

ASK-VIP trainings are expressly designed to meet the needs of foster and adoptive parents. Skilled trainers who have lived experiences with fostering and adoption provide these trainings in a virtual group setting. There is 1.5 hours of ongoing, elective foster parent training credit available for Kentucky’s foster parents.
Create an account or log-in to register for this training. A reliable internet connection and a smartphone, tablet, or computer with web camera is needed to participate. If there are two adults in the same household that want to participate in this training, each person must register separately. Foster parent training credit is administered based on the duration of the meeting and each attendee’s participation. Training credit is only available if you have not participated in this training within the past twelve months.
REGISTER NOW
If you have any questions about this training or how to register, please email ask@uky.edu or call 859-257-7361.

Understanding And Coping With Sensory Processing Challenges
2023-09-24 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
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 and become familiar with the various sensory systems.
After completing this training, participants will be able to:

Understand types of sensory differences
Identify strategies that help with various sensory differences
Identify parental tasks for a child with sensory differences

ASK-VIP trainings are expressly designed to meet the needs of foster and adoptive parents. Skilled trainers who have lived experiences with fostering and adoption provide these trainings in a virtual group setting. There is 1.5 hours of ongoing, elective foster parent training credit available for Kentucky’s foster parents.
Create an account or log-in to register for this training. A reliable internet connection and a smartphone, tablet, or computer with web camera is needed to participate. If there are two adults in the same household that want to participate in this training, each person must register separately. Foster parent training credit is administered based on the duration of the meeting and each attendee’s participation. Training credit is only available if you have not participated in this training within the past twelve months.
REGISTER NOW
If you have any questions about this training or how to register, please email ask@uky.edu or call 859-257-7361.
