Caregiver Training Schedule_April 2024
Advanced Adoption: Effects of Trauma and Loss on Adopted Children
This course takes you beyond the introductory level into beginning to understand more deeply the emotional, mental and physical needs an adoptive child may have. A startlingly high number of adoptions are not successful, which is why it is so important that you have realistic expectations and adequate support, both of which are explored in this training.
12:30-3 p.m. April 10
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Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
This training for caregivers develops an understanding of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) as presented in DSM 5 and alternate behavioral descriptions from Daniel Amen, MD. The training also covers the common developmental course of ADHD and a 7 Step Intervention pathway for home and school success.
9 a.m.-4 p.m. April 16
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This training provides a foundation for understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) and challenging or escalating behavior among children in out-of-home care. The training provides specific behavior management skills for caregivers to deescalate and manage behavior including trauma informed caregiving, authoritative parenting, therapeutic environments, engagement, and more.
9 a.m.-12 p.m. April 8 and 9
9 a.m.-12 p.m. April 29 and 30
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Building Life Skills for Drug Impacted Children
This training will focus on how children exposed to prenatal substance abuse in their life have an increased chance of experiencing many effects, such as poor social, cognitive, and emotional development, physical, mental, and health issues, depression, anxiety, concentration and learning difficulties, trouble controlling their responses as well as other traumatic issues.
9 a.m.-12 p.m. April 2
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Building Parental Resilience for Kinship Caregivers
This course helps you understand the importance of self-care and practical ideas for how to do it. You will understand signs of stress and burnout and recognize the importance of maintaining their mental, physical, emotional and spiritual well-being.
4-5:30 p.m. April 17
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This training is designed to provide an understanding of Family Time. As caregivers, you play an important role in supporting children, siblings and families in maintaining their connections. Family Time will be developed to give parents and children quality time, in the least restrictive setting, so their family bonds and connections will be preserved while temporarily not being able to live together. You will learn what will be included in Family Time plans and the reasoning around supervision levels.
9 a.m.-12 p.m. April 8
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This training provides an in-depth exploration of secure attachment and challenges to attachment as well as building caregiver skills to enhance attachment with children in out of home care.
5-8 p.m. April 18 and 19
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Child Development
This course helps you understand typical child development as well as disrupted child development. Developmental delays and how to meet children’s developmental needs are also covered in this theme. The unique challenges associated with parenting children from each developmental stage are highlighted.
10 a.m.-12 p.m. April 6
10 a.m.-12 p.m. April 22
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Cultural Humility
This course provides participants with an overview of cultural humility and helps participants recognize the importance of honoring a child’s cultural identity. Course learnings include strategies for parents who are fostering or adopting to respect as well as navigate differences in values from the children and families while acknowledging imbalances of power and inequities.
1:30-3 p.m. April 22
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Eating Disorders and Beyond
This training covers how to recognize and support disordered eating and recovery from disordered eating. Participants will learn when and how to seek professional help, feeding practices to encourage a positive eating environment for all ages, and reasons that hoarding occurs and how to respond to it.
10 a.m.-1 p.m. April 19 and 20
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Emotion Coaching
Emotion Coaching helps prepare children from birth to 5 years old for the challenges they face throughout their lifetime. A child’s ability to delight in the happy times and recover from the bad ones is a key part of emotional health. By learning and practicing the 5 steps of Emotion Coaching, you can make an important investment in a child’s future.
10 a.m.-12 p.m. April 2
2-4 p.m. April 6
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Foster Care: A Means to Support Families
This course helps you understand the child welfare experience from the perspective of the child’s parents and supports finding compassion for parents and the challenges they may be facing. Strategies to nurture children’s relationships with their parents and to integrate and maintain ongoing communication and connection between parents and children are covered.
5:30-7:30 p.m. April 16
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Impact of Substance Use
This course helps participants understand the short- and long-term impact on children exposed to substances prenatally. This includes FASD and issues that may be present if parents use(d) substances, and medical issues that can arise due to substance exposure, including higher risk of later addiction.
12-2 p.m. April 25
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Impacts of Prenatal Drug Exposure
This training will identify and address the various types of drugs used during pregnancy; the impacts those drugs have on the infant, toddler, and school-age child; and recognize the effects of prenatal drug exposure so caregivers can be proactive in their care and guidance of the children in their care.
6-9 p.m. April 30
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Introduction to the Investigative Process for Caregivers
Going through an investigation can be scary. Understanding the process, knowing your rights, and being informed about the laws and process can make it a lot easier. This course provides licensed and unlicensed caregivers a deep look at the Licensing Division (LD) Child Protective Services (CPS) and Licensing Investigation (LD) processes, starting with Intake, through the investigation, and concluding with the report and the potential for appeals.
2-5 p.m. April 10
5:30-8:30 p.m. April 29
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Kinship Parenting
This webinar acknowledges the complexities associated with caring for children who are related, including: divided loyalties, redefining roles and relationships, setting boundaries with parents and other relatives, and the range of emotions including anger, resentment, guilt and/or embarrassment that caregivers can feel. Strategies for how to manage family dynamics and conflicts, identify triggers and effectively manage stress are shared.
1-3 p.m. April 17
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Maintaining Children’s Connections
This course helps you understand the importance of integrating and maintaining ongoing communication and connection between siblings, including understanding sibling dynamics and the importance of sibling bonds. Tips for how to navigate and support visits with siblings are shared. This course also helps participants recognize the importance of maintaining connections with extended family members and the community at large (i.e., schools, church, friends, sporting teams) and identifies strategies to keep children connected to their community.
5:30-7 p.m. April 11
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Mental Health Considerations for Children
This course provides a foundational understanding of mental health disorders and conditions that commonly occur in childhood. Content is shared to illustrate that not all “survival” behaviors or symptoms of grief are connected with mental health disorders. Commonly administered psychotropic medications are described and information about how to obtain consistent, adequate and appropriate access to mental health services is highlighted.
10 a.m.-12 p.m. April 20
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Paper Trail: Documentation Training for Caregivers
This training will cover best practices for documentation to prepare and support you and others involved in the child’s life, with the ultimate goal of sharing information, concerns and progress. Focused learnings around why documentation matters are central to the course – specific scenarios help translate ideas to real-life examples.
10-11:30 a.m. April 29
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Parenting in Racially and Culturally Diverse Families
This course helps you understand the impact of parenting children from different racial/ethnic/cultural backgrounds and to know how to honor and incorporate child’s race/ethnicity/culture into their existing family system. Strategies are identified to help children develop positive and proud identities and to help children and families prepare for and handle racism in all forms.
1-3 p.m. April 24
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Parenting Teens
The “Parenting Teens” series comprises seven parts for prospective and current foster, adoptive, kinship and guardian parents who are or will be raising older children from foster care who have moderate to severe emotional and behavioral challenges.
Parenting Teens Part 1: Introduction and Understanding the Impact of Trauma in Youth in Foster Care
9 a.m.-12 p.m. April 13
Parenting Teens Part 2: Parenting Youth Who Have Experienced Trauma
1-4 p.m. April 13
Parenting Teens Part 3: Developing and Sustaining Healthy and Supportive Relationships With Your Youth
9 a.m.-12 p.m. April 27
Parenting Teens Part 4: Nurturing Youth’s Needs, Identity and Expression
1-4 p.m. April 27
Parenting Teens Part 7: New Suitcase of Parenting Knowledge and Skills
5:30-8:30 p.m. April 13
Parenting the Positive Discipline Way: Introduction to Positive Discipline
This series of courses for caregivers teaches the Positive Discipline model. The first course, Introduction to Positive Discipline, teaches the foundational concepts of the model and is required before taking any of the other six courses. After this first course is taken, the remaining modules may be taken in any order.
Introduction to Positive Discipline
5:30-7:30 p.m. April 4
Skill vs. Will
5:30-7:30 p.m. April 15
What is Positive Discipline
5:30-7:30 p.m. April 8
Relative/Kinship Caregiving: Navigating Change and Supporting the Children in Your Care
This course explores how to navigate changing relationships between adults as well as the feelings and behaviors of the children. You’ll spend time in class focusing on yourself, too, looking at how you can cope and care for yourself through the inevitable ups and downs.
1-4 p.m. April 30
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The Inherent Strengths of Kinship Families
The Inherent Strengths in Kinship Families is a training series developed by Dr. Joseph Crumbley for kinship caregivers. The series takes a strength-based perspective in outlining different topics that are unique to kinship families and providing strategies for caregivers.
The Inherent Strengths of Kinship Families: Attachment
Region 5/6 Training Hub, Tumwater: 5:30-7:30 p.m. April 9
The Inherent Strengths of Kinship Families: Healing
Region 5/6 Training Hub, Tumwater: 5:30-7:30 p.m. April 30
The Inherent Strengths of Kinship Families: Identity
Region 5/6 Training Hub, Tumwater: 5:30-7:30 p.m. April 23
The Inherent Strengths of Kinship Families: Legacy
Region 5/6 Training Hub, Tumwater: 5:30-7:30 p.m. April 16
Trauma Informed Parenting
This course helps participants learn the three Rs (Regulate, Relate, Reason) and other practical trauma-informed parenting strategies. Participants will learn to recognize the importance of finding activities to have fun with children; recognize the importance of connected parenting and the relationship as the foundational cornerstone; understand how to promote healthy behaviors; and recognize the importance of a parent’s self-regulation.
1-4 p.m. April 4
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Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI®) Module 1: Correcting Principles
TBRI® is an attachment-based approach to parenting that is designed to meet the complex needs of children. TBRI uses the Empowering Principles to address physical needs, Connecting Principles for attachment needs, and Correcting Principles to disarm fear-based behaviors. This module focuses on attachment, which is the most important dynamic system that a child experiences during development. (This training is the third of a three-part series. You must complete the first two modules before enrolling in this module.)
5:30-8:30 p.m. April 4 and 11
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Trust-Based Relational Intervention: Introduction and Overview to TBRI
TBRI® (Trust-Based Relational Intervention) is an attachment-based, trauma-informed intervention that is designed to meet the complex needs of vulnerable children. This course is an overview designed to give you exposure to all parts of TBRI® by highlighting the ways in which each section of the intervention strategy fits into the holistic nature of TBRI®.
5:30-8:30 p.m. April 3 and 10
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Understanding Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children
The training develops caregivers’ understanding of the diagnosis (especially in those under 6 years of age) as well as covering Developmental Trauma Disorder for complex trauma events often experienced by youth in alternative care situations.
9 a.m.-4 p.m. April 15
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While You Wait: Post CCT Support for Prospective Caregivers
Now that you have completed the eLearning portion of CCT we invite you to participate in this facilitated discussion session to fulfill your field experience and support session requirements. You have thought long and hard about what it means for you to be an out-of-home caregiver. You may even have ideas of what it will be like to welcome a child into your home. While you wait for your license or first placement to arrive, this session will help you consider some of the needs in the fostering community and how you are suited to meet them.
5:30-8 p.m. April 5
1-3:30 p.m. April 8
9-11:30 a.m. April 13
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