Caregiver Training Schedule_May 2025
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.
9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. May 10
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This training teaches you to understand the complexity of caring for African-American and biracial hair and skin. Participants 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. The provider will give resource tools on how to get the appropriate hair and skin products for children/youth. You will gain knowledge, skills and tools to utilize with the children/youth in their care.
12-5 p.m. May 18
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This training for caregivers develops an understanding of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) as presented in DSM 5 and alternate behavioral descriptions from Daniel Amen, MD. The training also covers the common developmental course of ADHD and a 7 Step Intervention pathway for home and school success.
9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 12
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This course helps you understand the importance of self-care and practical ideas for how to do it. You will gain understanding of the signs of stress and burnout and recognize the importance of maintaining your mental, physical, emotional and spiritual well-being.
1-2:30 p.m. May 19
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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.
6-9 p.m. May 19
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10 a.m.-12 p.m. May 29
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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.
10 a.m.-12 p.m. May 14
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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: Adaptability
1-3 p.m. May 21
Mental Health Considerations for Children
This course provides 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. Commonly administered psychotropic medications are described and information about how to obtain consistent, adequate and appropriate access to mental health services is highlighted.
10 a.m.-12 p.m. May 28
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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).
12-4 p.m. May 15
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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.
10-11:30 a.m. May 27
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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. May 7
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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 4: Nurturing Youth’s Needs, Identity and Expression
9 a.m.-12 p.m. May 6
Parenting Teens Part 5: Understanding and Managing Youth’s Challenging Behaviors First Session
9 a.m.-12 p.m. May 13
Parenting Teens Part 6: Understanding and Managing Youth’s Challenging Behaviors Second Session
9 a.m.-12 p.m. May 20
Parenting Teens Part 7: New Suitcase of Parenting Knowledge and Skills
9 a.m.-12 p.m. May 27
Parenting the Positive Discipline Way: Introduction to Positive Discipline
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.
Introduction to Positive Discipline
5:30-7:30 p.m. May 1
Understanding the Brain
9:30-11:30 a.m. May 17
Encouraging Parenting Solutions
1-3 p.m. May 17
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. May 14
10 a.m.-12 p.m. May 8
5:30-7:30 p.m. May 15
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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. May 27
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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. May 15 and 22
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Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI®) Module 3: Empowering Principles
TBRI is an attachment-based approach to parenting that is designed to meet the complex needs of children. 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.
5:30-8:30 p.m. May 13 and 20
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Understanding Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children
The training develops caregivers’ understanding of the diagnosis (especially in those under 6 years of age) as well as covering Developmental Trauma Disorder for complex trauma events often experienced by youth in alternative care situations.
9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 13
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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 a.m.-12 p.m. May 13
5:30-8:30 p.m. May 19
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