Caregiver Training Schedule_March 2026
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. March 8
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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. March 17
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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.
9 a.m.-12 p.m. March 5 and 6
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This training provides an in-depth exploration of drug-impacted infants and toddlers. The training focuses on how to identify and address the impacts drugs have on infants and toddlers; how to recognize symptoms; set up a successful environment and work together with the team in providing care for the child. Caregivers will leave this training feeling empowered to care for a drug impacted Infant as they grow through infancy, toddlerhood, and preschool.
12-3 p.m. March 18
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Honoring Their History: Memory Preservation for Children in Care
This training 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.
10 a.m.-12 p.m. March 4
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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.
5:30-7:30 p.m. March 31
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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.
1-3 p.m. March 10
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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: Co-Parenting
1-3 p.m. March 19
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This focused topic training teaches what drives aggressive behavior and develops skills required to give youth a chance for success. You will learn skills to teach the children in your care increased moral reasoning, how to replace antisocial behaviors with positive alternatives, and how to respond to anger in a nonaggressive manner.
6:30-9:30 p.m. March 10 and 11
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Nurturing Conversations with Children about Race
This course focuses on supporting both kinship caregivers and licensed foster parents to practice new skills, and to increase their confidence with conversations about race. This training builds on what’s learned in Parenting in Racially and Culturally Diverse Families. In this class, you will continue to explore how to create an environment where conversations about race become a normal part of home life, both proactive (you start the conversation) and responsive (when a child comes to you for support around racism).
4:30-8:30 p.m. March 9
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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.
3-4:30 p.m. March 5
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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.
1-3 p.m. March 23
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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
9 a.m.-12 p.m. March 14
Parenting Teens Part 2: Parenting Youth Who Have Experienced Trauma
9 a.m.-12 p.m. March 21
Parenting Teens Part 6: Understanding and Managing Youth’s Challenging Behaviors Second Session
5:30-8:30 p.m. March 2
Parenting Teens Part 7: New Suitcase of Parenting Knowledge and Skills
5:30-8:30 p.m. March 16
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: What Is Positive Discipline?
10 a.m.-12 p.m. March 25
Parenting the Positive Discipline Way: Family Management and Effective Communication
10 a.m.-12 p.m. March 12
Pathways to Permanency: Guardianship and Adoption
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 deepen their understanding of the alternative permanent plans of Guardianship and Adoption in Child Welfare. You will explore common misconceptions that can occur between caseworkers and caregivers when discussing concurrent planning for children in out-of-home care. Additionally, best interest of the child will be discussed as it relates to the dimensions of permanency, and least restrictive plans.
5:30-8 p.m. March 26
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Pathways to Permanency: Reunification, The Primary Permanency Planning Goal
Pathways to Permanency is a collection of courses designed for both caregivers and workforce professionals to strengthen their understanding of permanency options for children in out-of-home care, with a focus on the role of each team member in the permanency planning process. In this session, you will explore the pathway of reunification, gaining insights into the child safety framework and how it informs decision-making for reunification. You will review concurrent planning and best interest considerations for children.
5:30-8 p.m. March 23
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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.
9-11 a.m. March 10
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Trauma-Informed Parenting
This course helps participants learn the three Rs (Regulate, Relate, Reason) and other practical trauma-informed parenting strategies. Participants will learn to 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.
1-4 p.m. March 3
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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. March 19
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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. March 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.
9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. March 24
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