Competence in Children (2 Contact Hours)
This training is intended to help participants Understand competence in children, what it is and how it works, Know how child competence relates to self-calming, resilience, and emotional intelligence in children’s development and health, Know how trauma can undermine the development and maintenance of competence and Learn some ways to help children acquire, build on, maintain, and positively use competence
De-escalating with Compassion: Tools and Understanding for Foster Parents (3 Contact Hours)
Parents will: understand basic brain development of youth and how it can change following chronic trauma, identify de-escalation as the goal for a struggling child, not discipline, learn techniques for responding to escalation, practice helpful verbal interventions for children when they are struggling, understand the value of connection and understand realistic expectations for the behavior of children in foster care.
Discipline 101: Why We Do It & How We Approach It (1.5 Contact Hours)
This training helps foster parents use respectful, effective discipline strategies that teach rather than punish, while addressing the unique challenges.
Emotional Intelligence in Children (2 Contact Hours)
This training is intended to help participants Understand the concept of emotional intelligence and how it looks in children, Know how emotional intelligence fits with self-calming, competence, and resilience in children’s development and health, Know how trauma undermines the development of emotional intelligence, Envision themselves as emotional-intelligence models for children and Learn how to help children develop and use emotional intelligence
Helping Foster Children Develop Self-Esteem (1.5 Contact Hours)
Helps parents understand the importance of self-esteem in child development and learn effective strategies to build and support self-esteem.
Helping Our Children Deal with Anger (2 Contact Hours)
This training is intended to help participants, understand the nature and complexity of anger, distinguish between the emotions and the behaviors involved in anger, understand additional trauma-associated anger factors for many foster children , deal effectively with anger felt and expressed by the children in their careand help the children in their care learn to understand their anger and handle it constructively
Managing Behaviors When They Come (2 Contact Hours)
This interactive training is designed to assist participants with developing intervention and coaching skills to use with the children who reside in their home to address behaviors when the occur. Participants will leave with a better understanding the pain children experience when they are separated from their families and the impact this separation has on the child’s behavior.
Redefining Crisis (2 Contact Hours)
This interactive workshop is designed to assist participants identifying crisis, to recognize crisis as an opportunity for change, to develop skills to turn negatives into positives, to develop crisis intervention skills, and to provide a different approach to behavior modification. It also assist participants in building skills to increase case stabilization
Start with the “Why” Understanding behavior & how to change it: (1.5 Contact Hours)
To improve or change behavior you must first understand behavior’s beginnings. Above all, we must be aware that behavior change is a process rather than an event. The session discusses Bloom’s Taxonomies, Brain Development, Social Intelligence and their impact on behavior.
Teaching Kids to Calm Themselves (2 Contact Hours)
This training is intended to help participants Understand how what may seem like “bad behavior” in our children may be a response to trauma, Understand self-calming as one of the skills necessary to resilience, competence, and emotional intelligence and Know some positive ways to teach kids to calm themselves.
Vying with Lying: Best Parenting Approaches (1.5 Contact Hours)
Intended to help parents understand children’s lying and offer best parenting approaches to dealing with lying.