Caregiver Training Schedule_June 2026

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. June 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. June 15, 16
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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.
5-8 p.m. June 15 and 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.
1:30-3 p.m. June 4
 
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. June 1
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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.
9-11 a.m. June 6
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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.

9 a.m.-12 p.m. June 9
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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: Legacy
6-8 p.m. June 15
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Introduction to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
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. The genetic component of addiction and addiction as a chronic disease is described. This course also shares parenting strategies for children exposed to substances prenatally.
9-11 a.m. June 20
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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. June 4
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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.
10-11:30 a.m. June 25
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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. 
9-11 a.m. June 8
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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. 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.
10-11:30 a.m. June 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: Introduction to Positive Discipline
6-8 p.m. June 3
Parenting the Positive Discipline Way: What Is Positive Discipline?
9-11 a.m. June 13
Parenting the Positive Discipline Way: Family Management and Effective Communication
1-3 p.m. June 16
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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. June 12
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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. June 8
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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. June 2
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Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI®) Module 1: Connecting Principles
TBRI is an attachment-based approach to parenting that is designed to meet the complex needs of children. This module covers several topics including the attachment cycle, infant attachment classifications, what happens when things go wrong in attachment, adult attachment styles, and applying your knowledge through TBRI Connecting Principles using Mindful Engagement, Choices, Compromises, and Life Value Terms.
9 a.m.-4 p.m. June 10
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Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI®) Module 3
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 is designed to help participants learn skills that can be used to manage children’s behavior. The goal for this training module is to help participants understand how children learned “survival behaviors” (fight, flight, freeze) and how they can disarm those behaviors, teaching them adaptive, new skills for life. 
9 a.m.-4 p.m. June 18
5:30-8:30 p.m. June 23, 24
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