Stress Management For Caregivers
Stress Management for Caregivers will equip foster/adoptive parents with tools to understand what stress and caregiver burnout is, and how to cope with the unique stressors of being foster/adoptive families. The […]
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Keeping Families Strong
Keeping Families Strong provides foster parents insight on how to keep partnerships, families and friendships strong while providing care to out of home children. It will also provide strategies for foster parents to build workable boundaries around these […]
Drugs: Things You Need to Know
Drugs: Things You Need to Know is designed to inform parents of the many different classifications of illicit drugs, as well as the current trends related to adolescent drug abuse. Detailed […]
Child Development: Ages 0-5
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 may […]
Adoption: Understanding Your Commitment
Adoption: Understanding Your Commitment explores adoption dissolution. It addresses the impact on a child and family when adoption dissolution occurs and offers strategies and resources to prevent it. After completing this training, participants will be able to: Interpret information about adoption dissolution and reasons why it occurs. […]
ASK-VIP Support Group With Donna
ASK-VIP Support Groups are expressly designed to meet the needs of foster and adoptive parents in an inclusive, safe, and compassionate environment. They are led by seasoned facilitators who have […]
Healthy Boundaries: Strategies For Answering Tough Questions
Healthy Boundaries: Strategies for Answering Tough Questions helps foster and adoptive parents understand the importance of setting boundaries in their lives. It explains the different types of boundaries (Physical and […]
Managing Behaviors in Children That Display Aggression and Other Challenging Behaviors
This virtual 2-part series, offered during Child Abuse and Autism Awareness Month, is designed to give parents the skills needed to manage behaviors in the home environment with children that […]
Preparing Children For Permanency
Preparing Children for Permanency equips foster/adoptive parents with strategies to prepare children for permanency. It offers insight on the thoughts and emotional reactions that a child transitioning to permanency may experience. It also explores ways to help children understand and express their emotions during this time of transition. After completing […]
KIN VIP Support Group With Merlin Jones-Smalley
Description This group will focus on the day to day issues involving relative and fictive kin care and will be a place where each member can find support, resources, ideas, […]
Adjusting to Kinship Parenting
Adjusting to becoming a kinship caregiver for a relative or fictive kin youth can be a difficult transition, one that is often made quickly and during challenging situations. Understanding how […]
ASK-VIP LGBTQ+ Foster/Adoptive Parent Support Group
ASK-VIP LGBTQ+ Foster/Adoptive Parent Support Groups are specifically designed for foster/adoptive parents who identify as LGBTQ+ as well as foster/adoptive parents who are caring for children or teens who identify as LGBTQ+. The […]