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.
5:30-8 p.m. Oct. 8
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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. Oct. 20 and 24
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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.
9 a.m.-12 p.m. Oct. 7
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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. Oct. 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 1: Introduction and Understanding the Impact of Trauma in Youth
1-4 p.m. Oct. 2

Parenting Teens Part 2: Parenting Youth Who Have Experienced Trauma
1-4 p.m. Oct. 9

Parenting Teens Part 3: Developing and Sustaining Healthy and Supportive Relationships With Your Youth
9 a.m.-12 p.m. Oct. 28

Parenting Teens Part 4: Nurturing Youth’s Cultural/Racial/Ethnic Needs and Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and Expression
9 a.m.-12 p.m. Oct. 30

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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.

Introduction to Positive Discipline
1-3 p.m. Oct. 1

Connection Before Correction
1-3 p.m. Oct. 8

Skill vs. Will
1-3 p.m. Oct. 20

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Suicide Prevention LEARN® Training by Forefront for Caregivers
LEARN is a suicide awareness training that helps participants identify and act on signs of suicide. LEARN is designed to empower individuals to help others move in the direction of hope, recovery, and survival.
1-4 p.m. Oct. 15
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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. 
1:30-3:30 p.m. Oct. 29
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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. Oct. 14 and 15
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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.
5:30-8:30 p.m. Oct. 28 and 29
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Understanding Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children
This training provides a foundation for understanding Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).  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.  Dissociation and hyper arousal behavior patterns are explored as protective responses to challenges in the environment and methods to reduce the impacts discussed.  Strategies for healing and resolving trauma as caregivers are explored. 
9 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 28
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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. Oct. 25
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