• Trust Based Relational Intervention – The Basics

    Virtual through LMS

    This training introduces the foundational principles of Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI®), a holistic approach designed to meet the unique needs of children from hard places. Foster and adoptive families will […]

  • Volunteers Needed – UKPD Emergency Exercise

    The University of Kentucky Police Department is hosting a realistic, full-scale training exercise designed to simulate emergency conditions. This event will bring together multiple agencies, departments, and emergency response teams […]

  • The Five Love Languages

    Virtual through LMS

    The 5 Love Languages introduces parents to the different love languages and discusses ways to use this information to strengthen partner/spouse relationships as well as relationships with children and teenagers. […]

  • Preparing Children for Permanency

    Virtual through LMS

    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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Bullying

    Virtual through LMS

    Bullying provides parents an overview of bullying behaviors that children, teens, and young adults may encounter and the effects it has on children, youth and society as a whole. This […]

  • Foster/Adoptive Parents of Teens Support Group

    ASK-VIP Support Group for Foster/Adoptive Parents of Teens is specifically designed for foster/adoptive parents who are caring for teenagers or those considering fostering and/or adopting teenagers. This support group offers […]

  • LGBTQ+ Foster/Adoptive Parent Support Group

    Virtual through LMS

    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 […]