Learning Your Child Has A Disability
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 […]
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Medically Complex 2023 Fall Annual Training Conference
Embassy Suites Coldstream 1801 Newtown Pike, Lexington, KY, United StatesThis is a hybrid-style training event with virtual sessions on Friday 8/4 (9:00am – 10:30am & 11:00am – 12:30pm) & Saturday 8/5 (9:00am – 10:30am & 11:00am – 12:30pm), and […]
Making Your Kinship Voice Heard! Advocacy With Arion
As caregivers, we may realize how important advocacy is, but, knowing where to start and how to effectively advocate for policies that can create change for kinship families may be […]
ARC Meetings & IEPs: The Basics
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 […]
KIN VIP Support Group With Merlin Jones-Smalley
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, and a place […]
Kinship Families Impacted By Substance Use KIN VIP Support Group
This new KIN VIP Support Group will begin as a 12-week pilot Support Group and will provide a community of support for kinship caregivers who have been impacted by a […]
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 […]
Promoting Stability & Increasing Resiliency For Children In Care
Promoting Stability & Increasing Resiliency for Children in Care explores the concepts of stability and resiliency and introduces skills for building resiliency in children who have experienced trauma. After completing this […]
Introduction And Understanding The Impact Of Trauma On Youth In Foster Care
CORE TEEN (Critical On-going Resource Family Education) Session 1 Introduction and Understanding the Impact of Trauma on Youth in Foster Care August 9, 2023 10:00 am - 12:00 pm EST […]
Building Positive Relationships With Caseworkers & Community Partners
Building Positive Relationships with Case Workers & Community Partners provides foster parents the information and tools needed to establish a positive working relationship with their caseworker and child’s caseworker, with […]
MSW Hybrid Orientation
UK CoSW Training Resource Center 1648 McGrathiana Parkway, Suite 400, Lexington, KY, United StatesThis is the orientation for our incoming hybrid students in the MSW Program. The event will be 8/10/23 from 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm at the UK College of Social […]
Understanding The Brain & Fear Responses In Traumatized Children
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, […]