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 Emotional) and offers strategies and ideas to help parents work with children to build their own boundaries, especially when it comes to intrusive questions asked […]

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 display aggression and other challenging behaviors to increase resiliency and placement stability. This event is approved for 2 hours each session for ongoing, elective training […]

ASK-VIP Medically Complex Foster/Adoptive Parent Support Groups are expressly designed to meet the needs of foster and adoptive parents caring for children with medical complexities. They offer an opportunity to share experiences, questions, resources, and concerns in a safe and compassionate environment. These groups are led by a seasoned foster/adoptive parent facilitator with lived experiences […]

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) come in many forms, from physical and mental abuse to neglect and household dysfunction. This training examines data from the ACE study, how early adversity as a child can impact adult physical, social and emotional health as well as what foster and adoptive parents can do to address trauma and create […]

Description This group will focus on the components of building healthy relationships with birth parents and extended family members. This can be a difficult area of relative and fictive kin care, but, it is an important one!  Navigating how to establish positive boundaries and develop healthy relationships with birth parents or extended family members of […]

Strategies for Parenting Teens will provide an overview of adolescent development and common questions and challenges presented by youth who are in foster care or were adopted. This training will equip participants with parenting strategies to address specific issues common to foster and adopted teens.   After completing this training, participants will be able to:  Recognize and identify behaviors and developmental challenges exhibited by a teen in […]

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 training will equip foster and adoptive parents with coping skills when stress and burnout do occur. After completing this training, participants will be able to: […]

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 lived experiences with fostering and adoption. If you’re seeking an opportunity to share resources, suggestions, frustrations and successes with those who share the unique experience […]

A reception will be held for all spring and summer CoSW graduates on Friday, May 6 from 3 to 5 p.m. EST in the Harris Ballroom at the Gatton Student Center. Light appetizers will be provided.

UK College of Social Work Graduation with UK Alumni Association Grad Gathering to follow. Rupp Arena Floor Map for graduates Saturday, May 7th 9 AM EDT Floor Map College of Arts and Sciences College of Social Work College of Design  

UK ALUMNI ASSOCIATION GRAD GATHERING! Immediately following the Graduation Ceremony Rupp Arena at Central Bank Center, 430 West Vine Street, 2nd Floor Meeting Rooms The UK Alumni Association and the College of Social Work invites 2022 Graduates and their family to attend the Commencement Open House event at Rupp Arena at Central Bank Center. • […]

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, strategies for caregivers to manage fear based behavior is discussed.   After completing this training, participants will be able to:  Articulate the basics of brain development and function in children, how trauma affects development, and how fear impacts […]