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.
5:30-8 p.m. Dec. 9
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African American Hair and Skin Care
This training will help you understand the complexity of caring for African American and biracial hair and skin. You will gain skills and knowledge to be culturally responsive to the needs of the children/youth in their care. The provider will demonstrate how to properly wash, dry and style (including braiding) for African American children and youth in their care. 
12-5 p.m. Dec. 14
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Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
This training helps you develop an understanding of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)  as well as the common developmental course of ADHD and a 7 Step Intervention pathway for home and school success. 
9 a.m.-4 p.m. Dec. 9
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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. Dec. 9 and 10
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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.
12-3 p.m. Dec. 16
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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.
9-10:30 a.m. Dec. 6
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Impact of Trauma on Child Development
This course will help you understand typical child development as well as disrupted child development. Developmental delays and how to meet children’s developmental needs is also covered in this theme. The unique challenges associated with parenting children from each developmental stage are highlighted.
5:30-7:30 p.m. Dec. 16
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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.
5-8 p.m. Dec. 18
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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.

What Is Positive Discipline?
1-3 p.m. Dec. 11
Introduction to Positive Discipline
6-8 p.m. Dec. 10
Family Management and Effective Communication
1-3 p.m. Dec. 2
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Pathways to Permanency: Reunification
Pathways to Permanency is a collection of courses designed for caregivers to strengthen their understanding of permanency options for children in out-of-home care, with a focus on the role of the Family Team in the permanency planning process. In this session, you will explore the pathway of reunification, gaining insights into how child safety is assessed and how those decisions guide the process of bringing families back together.
9 a.m.-12 p.m. Dec. 15
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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. 
10 a.m.-12 p.m. Dec. 10
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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.-12 p.m. Dec. 3 and 4
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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. Dec. 8
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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. Dec. 18
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