Caregiver Training Schedule_February 2026
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.
1-3:30 p.m. Feb. 12
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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. Feb. 3
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The Autism Basics: Behaviors and Coping Strategies
This comprehensive training aims to provide you with valuable insights and practical strategies to support individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) throughout their developmental journey. You will gain insights into behavior as communication and learn trauma-informed and culturally responsive behavior management techniques. You will also gain an understanding of special education services and navigating IFSP/IEP meetings.
9 a.m.-2 p.m. Feb. 7
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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. Feb. 2 and 3
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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.
6-9 p.m. Feb. 18
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Chaos to Calm: Promoting Attachment in Out-of-Home Care
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. Feb. 25 and 26
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Healthy Sexual Development
This course will provide you with tools and resources needed to ensure the children in your care have the necessary information and support to become healthy adults. Upon completion, you will be able to identify what healthy sexual development is by age and stage of development, recognize your own possible discomfort in talking about healthy sexual development with children and youth, and you will be able to integrate healthy sexual development conversations with children and youth into everyday life.
5-8 p.m. Feb. 12
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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 are also covered in this theme. The unique challenges associated with parenting children from each developmental stage are highlighted.
1-4 p.m. Feb. 19
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1-4 p.m. Feb. 24
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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
12:30-2:30 p.m. Feb. 21
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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.
9 a.m.-12 p.m. Feb. 3
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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.
2-3:30 p.m. Feb. 5
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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.
1-3 p.m. Feb. 26
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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.
5:30-7:30 p.m. Feb. 10
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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 3: Developing and Sustaining Healthy and Supportive Relationships With Your Youth
5:30-8:30 p.m. Feb. 2
Parenting Teens Part 4: Nurturing Youth’s Cultural/Racial/Ethnic Needs and Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and Expression
5:30-8:30 p.m. Feb. 9
Parenting Teens Part 5: Understanding and Managing Youth’s Challenging Behaviors First Session
5:30-8:30 p.m. Feb. 23
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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: Encouraging Parenting Solutions
10 a.m.-12 p.m. Feb. 9
Parenting the Positive Discipline Way: Introduction to Positive Discipline
9:30-11:30 a.m. Feb. 24
9:30-11:30 a.m. Feb. 28
Parenting the Positive Discipline Way: Understanding the Brain
10 a.m.-12 p.m. Feb. 25
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.
1-3 p.m. Feb. 18
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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. Feb. 10 and 12
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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.
9 a.m.-4 p.m. Feb. 7
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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.
5-8 p.m. Feb. 23
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