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Jun
3
Mon
Foster Parenting Training: An In-Depth Exploration of Advanced Topics. Turning the Lens Inward: Examining the Role of Self-Awareness and Self-Care in Fostering
Jun 3 @ 8:30 am – 10:30 am
Foster Parenting Training: An In-Depth Exploration of Advanced Topics. Turning the Lens Inward: Examining the Role of Self-Awareness and Self-Care in Fostering

Trainings will provide in-depth discussion of topics relevant for providing developmentally appropriate, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive, care for children involved with the child welfare system.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Participants will be able to understand the importance of self-awareness in providing care for children involved with child welfare.
  2. Participants will be able to discuss and identify roadblocks to practices that encourage self-awareness and self-care.
  3. Participants will be able to identify how they can best engage in self-care practices and encourage this for the children in their care

 

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Jun
10
Mon
Helping the Grieving Child
Jun 10 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Helping the Grieving Child

Children experience grief over the loss of their families when they come into foster care, similar yet more challenging, then they do through divorce or death. There are many unknowns within the complicated family dynamics of each situation. We can help them understand and heal through caring conversations, story-sharing, and creative projects like memory boxes or journaling.

Upon completion of this course, participants will:

  • Learn the stages of grief that are common to all situations regarding loss.
  • Discover why loss in foster care is more complex and if unresolved can lead to lifelong problems.
  • Obtain tools to utilize with children to help them address their grief in healthy ways.

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Jul
24
Wed
Webinar #2: Responding to Prenatal Alcohol and Other Substance Exposures: FASD Assessment and Intervention
Jul 24 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

This webinar will focus on models of FASD assessment and intervention that are effective and well-suited for child welfare systems’ array of services. The attendees will learn about a brief consultation behavioral health clinic model for utilizing FASD-informed care to provide assessment, consultation, and links to supportive services. This model has potential to provide a quick and efficient pathway to diagnosis and services for children and families served in child welfare. Next attendees will learn about an evidence-based child and parent intervention that facilitates development of social-emotional functioning, self-control, positive behavior, and long-term mental health among children six to 12 years of age in foster or adoptive care who meet criteria for an FASD diagnosis. An adoptive parent of a child with an FASD will share insights about the experience and benefits of FASD-informed diagnosis and family-focused interventions and supports.

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