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. 19
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Caring for Family, Caring for Yourself: A Guide for Kinship Caregivers
This course supports kinship caregivers by exploring the emotional complexity of caring for children within the family network. Topics include managing divided loyalties, navigating shifting roles, setting healthy boundaries with parents and relatives, and addressing feelings such as anger, guilt and resentment. You will also learn how trauma, separation and loss affect both children and caregivers, and why prioritizing your well-being is essential. Strategies to manage stress, identify emotional triggers and build resilience will be shared, along with practical tools for self-care and fostering a protective, supportive environment for the entire family.
1-4 p.m. Oct. 15
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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.
5:30-7 p.m. Oct. 22
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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. Oct. 14
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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.
12-3 p.m. Oct. 28
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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.
9-11 a.m. Oct. 1
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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.
1-2:30 p.m. Oct. 6
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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. Oct. 21
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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.
Connection Before Correction
1-3 p.m. Oct. 14
Skill vs. Will
1-3 p.m. Oct. 22
Parenting the Positive Discipline Way: Introduction to Positive Discipline
1-3 p.m. Oct. 1
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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 3: Developing and Sustaining Healthy and Supportive Relationships With Your Youth
5:30-8:30 p.m. Oct. 5
Parenting Teens Part 4: Nurturing Youth’s Cultural/Racial/Ethnic Needs and Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and Expression
5:30-8:30 p.m. Oct. 12
Parenting Teens Part 5: Understanding and Managing Youth’s Challenging Behaviors First Session
5:30-8:30 p.m. Oct. 19
Parenting Teens Part 6: Understanding and Managing Youth’s Challenging Behaviors Second Session
5:30-8:30 p.m. Oct. 26
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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.
9 a.m.-12 p.m. Oct. 13
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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. 15
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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. 6, 13
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Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI): Correcting Principles – Responsive Strategies
This session provides information about setting expectation, responses based on what makes sense for the situation, and repair after difficult behavior. It covers an IDEAL response: immediate, direct, efficient, action-based, and leveled at the behavior, not the child. You will learn more about when playful engagement may help, when to provide more structure, when to offer calming engagement and when to focus on protecting from harm. You will also learn about how to teach children that mistakes are a part of learning, and that they can continue to heal through relationship.
1-4 p.m. Oct. 1
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Why Children Lie
Why Children Lie addresses lying on several levels. You will look at your own attitude about lying and how your values and beliefs affect that perception. The course will cover what lying looks like in different stages of development and what the motivating factors may be for a child. You will also talk about the societal norms around lying and how to support a child telling the truth. You will learn how to set a child up for being truthful through positive communication, and how to make changes to your own behavior and responses. The impact of trauma is a big part of this training, too, as trauma and other diagnoses impact the ability to be truthful. You will talk about how lying can be a trauma response and what you can do to change the pattern. When you leave the class, you will have a deeper understanding of how to respond to children when they lie and how to prevent lying.
9 a.m.-12 p.m. Oct. 10
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