Caregiver Training Schedule_September 2024
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.
1-3:30 p.m. Sept. 3
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This course helps you understand the importance of self-care and practical ideas for how to do it. You will understand signs of stress and burnout and recognize the importance of maintaining their mental, physical, emotional and spiritual well-being.
5:30-7 p.m. Sept. 25
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This training is designed to provide an understanding of Family Time. As caregivers, you play an important role in supporting children, siblings and families in maintaining their connections. Family Time will be developed to give parents and children quality time, in the least restrictive setting, so their family bonds and connections will be preserved while temporarily not being able to live together. You will learn what will be included in Family Time plans and the reasoning around supervision levels.
1-4 p.m. Sept. 10
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Caring for Drug Impacted Infants and Toddlers
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. Sept. 3
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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.
10-11:30 a.m. Sept. 25
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Emotion Coaching
Emotion Coaching helps prepare children from birth to 5 years old for the challenges they face throughout their lifetime. A child’s ability to delight in the happy times and recover from the bad ones is a key part of emotional health. By learning and practicing the 5 steps of Emotion Coaching, you can make an important investment in a child’s future.
5:30-7:30 p.m. Sept. 3
9:30-11:30 a.m. Sept. 14
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Healthy Sexual Development
This course will provide you with tools and resources needed to ensure the children in your care have the necessary information and support to become healthy adults. Upon completion, you will be able to identify what healthy sexual development is by age and stage of development, recognize your own possible discomfort in talking about healthy sexual development with children and youth, and you will be able to integrate healthy sexual development conversations with children and youth into everyday life.
9 a.m.-12 p.m. Sept. 16
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Honoring Their History: Memory Preservation for Children in Care
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. Sept. 11
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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: Identity
9-11 a.m. Sept. 14
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.
1-3 p.m. Sept. 10
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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.
1-4 p.m. Sept. 12
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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.
1-3 p.m. Sept. 18
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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.
3:30-5:30 p.m. Sept. 26
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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
9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Sept. 4
Parenting Teens Part 5: Understanding and Managing Youth’s Challenging Behaviors First Session
9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Sept. 11
Parenting Teens Part 6: Understanding and Managing Youth’s Challenging Behaviors Second Session
9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Sept. 18
Parenting Teens Part 7: New Suitcase of Parenting Knowledge and Skills
9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Sept. 25
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
6-8 p.m. Sept. 16
What Is Positive Discipline?
1-3 p.m. Sept. 21
Understanding the Brain
10 a.m.-12 p.m. Sept. 24
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.
5-8 p.m. Sept. 10
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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.
5:30-8:30 p.m. Sept. 24 and 26
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Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI®) Module 3: Correcting 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.
9 a.m.-12 p.m. Sept. 16 and 17
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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.-4 p.m. Sept. 21
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While You Wait: Post CCT Support for Prospective Caregivers
Now that you have completed the eLearning portion of CCT we invite you to participate in this facilitated discussion session to fulfill your field experience and support session requirements. You have thought long and hard about what it means for you to be an out-of-home caregiver. You may even have ideas of what it will be like to welcome a child into your home. While you wait for your license or first placement to arrive, this session will help you consider some of the needs in the fostering community and how you are suited to meet them.
2-4:30 p.m. Sept. 3
5:30-8 p.m. Sept. 9
10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Sept. 13
6-8:30 p.m. Sept. 18
9-11:30 a.m. Sept. 21
5:30-8 p.m. Sept. 24
9-11:30 a.m. Sept. 26
6-8:30 p.m. Sept. 30
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