Caregiver Training Schedule_July 2026
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.
1-2:30 p.m. July 23
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The new training “Honoring Their History: Memory Preservation for Children in Care” focuses on how to support a child’s well-being through the recording of memories and other parts of their life during their time away from their family. This webinar introduces the idea of memory preservation as central to a child’s welfare, because it provides many benefits to emotional and mental health.
1-3 p.m. July 7
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1-3 p.m. July 6
9-11 a.m. July 24
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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. July 9
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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. You also will leave with an individualized plan for what, when and how to document, based on the process that will work best for you.
5:30-7 p.m. July 6
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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. July 8
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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
9 a.m.-12 p.m. July 28
Parenting Teens Part 2: Parenting Youth Who Have Experienced Trauma
1-4 p.m. July 28
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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: Introduction to Positive Discipline
5:30-7:30 p.m. July 8
Parenting the Positive Discipline Way: Connection Before Correction
5:30-7:30 p.m. July 22
Parenting the Positive Discipline Way: Skill vs. Will
5:30-7:30 p.m. July 28
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Talking with Children and Youth about Sexual Development
In this course, you will review the basics of child sexual development and methods for talking about sexual topics with children and youth. By the end of the course, you will have increased skills to hold regular conversations with children and youth about sexual development, using natural opportunities that come up in daily life.
9 a.m.-12 p.m. July 18
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Trauma Informed Caregiving
This course helps you learn the three R’s (Regulate, Relate, Reason) and other practical trauma-informed parenting strategies. Trauma support resources for children are described. You will 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. Also highlighted are ways to be proactive versus reactive and the difference between discipline and punishment.
9 a.m.-12 p.m. July 11
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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.
1-3 p.m. July 14
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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. July 21
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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. July 22
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