Caregiver Training Schedule_September 2026
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.
5:30-7:30 p.m. Sept. 15
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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.
Co-Parenting
9-11 a.m. Sept. 23
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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.
1-3 p.m. Sept. 10
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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).
11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sept. 23
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5:30-7:30 p.m. Sept. 14
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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.
Family Management and Effective Communication
10 a.m.-12 p.m. Sept. 16
Parenting the Positive Discipline Way: Introduction to Positive Discipline
10 a.m.-12 p.m. Sept. 9
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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
5:30-8:30 p.m. Sept. 21
Parenting Teens Part 2: Parenting Youth Who Have Experienced Trauma
5:30-8:30 p.m. Sept. 28
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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.
1-4 p.m. Sept. 24
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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.
1-3:30 p.m. Sept. 16
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Talking with Children and Youth about Sexual Development
In this course, you will review the basics of child sexual development and methods for talking about sexual topics with children and youth. By the end of the course, you will have increased skills to hold regular conversations with children and youth about sexual development, using natural opportunities that come up in daily life.
1-4 p.m. Sept. 22
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Trauma Informed Caregiving
This course helps you learn the three R’s (Regulate, Relate, Reason) and other practical trauma-informed parenting strategies. You 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. Also highlighted are ways to be proactive versus reactive and the difference between discipline and punishment.
1-4 p.m. Sept. 14
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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. 26
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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. Sept. 3
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