7 events found.
Week of Events
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 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 […]
Monday, September 18, 2023
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September 18, 2023 -Services & Support For Foster & Adoptive Families
Services & Support For Foster & Adoptive Families
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 […]
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
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September 19, 2023 -ARC Meetings & IEPs: The Basics
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September 19, 2023 -Kinship Live Virtual Webinar Training- “Education Series: Bullying And Other Harmful Situations-What Do I Do To Protect My Child?”
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September 19, 2023 -Developmental Stages & Children’s Responses To Grief
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September 19, 2023 -Kinship Families Impacted By Substance Use KIN VIP Support Group
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September 19, 2023 -Kinship Families Impacted By Substance Use KIN VIP Support Group
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 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 […]
Kinship Live Virtual Webinar Training- “Education Series: Bullying And Other Harmful Situations-What Do I Do To Protect My Child?”
As kinship children head out the door for a new school year, caregivers send them out with all the resources and materials they need for a successful year. Unfortunately, in addition to the schoolwork, many children must learn to navigate challenging issues at school involving interactions with other students. These confrontations and negative interactions can […]
Developmental Stages & Children’s Responses To Grief
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 […]
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 family member’s substance use. This group will offer a safe space where kinship caregivers can find support, understanding, resources, and hope. The group is completely […]
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 family member’s substance use. This group will offer a safe space where kinship caregivers can find support, understanding, resources, and hope. The group is completely […]
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
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September 20, 2023 -Centers & Labs Monthly Meeting
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September 20, 2023 -Helping Your Child Make Healthy & Positive Choices: Talking To Teens & Preteens
Centers & Labs Monthly Meeting
Monthly Staff Meeting for Centers & Labs Training Resource Center Staff. The meeting is held the 3rd Wednesday of Each Month at the Training Resource Center. This is an in-person meeting. However, a Zoom link will be sent out prior to the training for any staff who cannot attend in-person.
Helping Your Child Make Healthy & Positive Choices: Talking To Teens & Preteens
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 […]
Thursday, September 21, 2023
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September 21, 2023 -BASW Info Session
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September 21, 2023 -Healthy Boundaries In Teenage Relationships
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September 21, 2023 -Caring For Kinship Teens With Judy Russell
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September 21, 2023 -Internet Safety
BASW Info Session
Are You Wildly Passionate About Social Work? Explore the Bachelor of Arts in Social Work (BASW) program during an online info session. Registration link is at the bottom of the event listing under 'Website'. The UK Difference Graduates from our program are uniquely poised to enter a competitive job market and make the most of […]
Healthy Boundaries In Teenage Relationships
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 […]
Caring For Kinship Teens With Judy Russell
Caring for Teens in Kinship is a new KIN VIP Support Group offering caregivers who are caring for teenagers in kinship care. This group will focus on caring for teenage youth placed in relative and fictive kin care and will explore topics related to day-to-day care-taking, communication, relationship-building, discipline approaches, and support for children who […]
Internet Safety
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 […]
Friday, September 22, 2023
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September 22, 2023 -Ten Things Every Pediatrician Should Know About Children In Care
Ten Things Every Pediatrician Should Know About Children In Care
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 […]
Saturday, September 23, 2023
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Sunday, September 24, 2023
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September 24, 2023 -Understanding And Coping With Sensory Processing Challenges
Understanding And Coping With Sensory Processing Challenges
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 […]