Caregiver Training Schedule_April 2026

Behavior Management Tools for Foster Parents and Caregivers

This training provides you with a foundation for understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) and challenging or escalating behavior among children in out-of-home care. You will learn how to deescalate and manage behavior and get practical tools.
5-8 p.m. April 23 and 24
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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 7
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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.
1-3 p.m. April 1
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Impacts of Prenatal Drug Exposure
This training will help you 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 you can be proactive in your care and guidance of the children in your care.

6-9 p.m. April 27
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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.
1-4 p.m. April 14
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Maintaining Children’s Connections
This course will help you understand the importance of integrating and maintaining ongoing communication and connection between siblings, including understanding sibling dynamics and the importance of sibling bonds.
5:30-7 p.m. April 23
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Mental Health Considerations for Children

This course will provide you with 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. 
5:30-7:30 p.m. April 2
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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.
9:30-11:30 a.m. April 1
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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
1-4 p.m. April 13

Parenting Teens Part 2: Parenting Youth Who Have Experienced Trauma
1-4 p.m. April 14

Parenting Teens Part 3: Developing and Sustaining Healthy and Supportive Relationships With Your Youth
1-4 p.m. April 20

Parenting Teens Part 4: Nurturing Youth’s Cultural/Racial/Ethnic Needs and Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and Expression
1-4 p.m. April 22

Parenting Teens Part 5: Understanding and Managing Youth’s Challenging Behaviors First Session
1-4 p.m. April 27

Parenting Teens Part 6: Understanding and Managing Youth’s Challenging Behaviors Second Session
1-4 p.m. April 29

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Parenting the Positive Discipline Way
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.

Parenting the Positive Discipline Way: Connection Before Correction
9:30-11:30 a.m. April 3

Parenting the Positive Discipline Way: Skill vs. Will
9:30-11:30 a.m. April 5

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Suicide Prevention LEARN® Training by Forefront for Caregivers
LEARN is a suicide awareness training that helps participants identify and act on signs of suicide. LEARN is designed to empower individuals to help others move in the direction of hope, recovery, and survival.
9 a.m.-12 p.m. April 10
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Trauma-Informed Emotion Coaching
Emotion Coaching is a research-based method from the Gottman Institute that gives caregivers a way to help children learn about emotions. This course will help you recognize how trauma impacts emotional development and provides opportunities to practice identifying and responding to emotion. 
1:30-3:30 pm. April 2
9-11 a.m. April 20
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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®.
9 a.m.-4 p.m. April 16
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Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI®) Module 2: Empowering 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 training module is designed to give participants insight into the roots of self-regulation difficulties common among “children from hard places.” This module aims to give participants practical tools to facilitate learning and practicing self-regulation skills. This training is the second of a three part series.
5:30-8:30 p.m. April 28 and May 5
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Understanding Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children
The training develops your understanding of the PTSD diagnosis (especially in those under 6 years of age) and covers Developmental Trauma Disorder for complex trauma events often experienced by youth in alternative care situations. Strategies for healing and resolving trauma as caregivers are explored. 
9 a.m.-4 p.m. April 14
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Why Children Lie: Development, Trauma, and Supporting the Truth
This training will take you through understanding what lying is, why it happens and how to support the truth. “Why Children Lie” addresses lying on several levels.
1-4 p.m. April 7
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