“A Taste of Love & Logic”: (1.5 Contact Hours)
This session provides positive, loving tools for raising happy and well-behaved kids; built around the science of caring, respectful relationships. Never before in history have parents faced so many challenges! That’s why the Love and Logic approach provides a variety of simple and effective strategies for parenting children birth to adulthood. The “Love” in Love and Logic means that we love our kids so much that we are willing to set and enforce limits. This “Love” also means that we do so with sincere compassion and empathy. The “Logic” in Love and Logic happens when we allow children to make decisions, make affordable mistakes and experience the natural or logical consequences. Topics in this session include: video games and kids; Love and logic with special needs, ending the bedtime blues and when your spouse has a different parenting style.
Foster Parenting Through the Holidays: Supporting Children, Honoring Feelings, and Building New Traditions (2 Contact Hours)
Participants will understand the emotional complexity, know how to communicate and connect with the children, know how to create inclusive traditions, be able to manage visits and expectations and learn self-care.
Going Platinum: Intro to Healthy Relationships: (1.5 Contact Hours)
Relationships are how we exchange information and energy. And are some if not the most important things in our lives. Understanding how to effectively interact with others is essential for working with children and families. This session will discuss three basic tools needed for healthy relationships; self-awareness, careful observation and a flexible response. Additionally the concepts of parallel process and “how you are” is as important as what you do will be covered.
Parenting the Love and Logic Way (6 Contact Hours)
This is a six hour workshop that provides parents an opportunity to gain practical and proven tools for raising respectful, responsible, and happy kids. The Love and Logic method helps caregivers develop strategies to teach children that choices have consequences, which helps parents become more consistent in their day-to-day parenting efforts. This curriculum was developed by Jim Fay.
Parenting with Cultural Competence (2 Contact Hours)
This training is intended to help participants understand the meaning of culture and diversity ,become aware of their cultural biases and able to deal with them positively, understand what cultural competence is and why it matters in life generally and parenting in particular, understand why it’s important for the children they’re parenting to develop cultural awareness, identity, and acceptance; be able to parent with greater cultural awareness and competence and help their foster children develop their own cultural identity and become culturally competent in their own right
Sibling Connections – Keeping them Strong (2 Contact Hours)
This workshop aims to relay the importance of sibling visits as a family reunification strategy. Participants will 1) Understand how sibling visits help maintain the sibling bond, 2) Understand the requirements of Michelle H. Settlement for sibling visitation, and 3) Learn and practice strategies for maintaining/strengthening the sibling bond during and between sibling visits.
Sticks and Stones: Labels, Labeling, & Better Ways (2 Contact Hours)
This training is intended to help participants understand what labels are and how we use them, see how labels affect all of us, with emphasis on the children in our care, use label-free ways of thinking and communicating and begin to undo the harm that earlier labeling has done
The Family within The Storm (2 Contact Hours)
This workshop will prepare foster parents to anticipate certain behaviors based on developmental needs of the child; develop interventions and coaching skills to appropriately respond to these behaviors, provide immediate emotional and environmental support in a way that reduces the stress and risk for all involved and teachs better, more constructive and effective ways participants can deal with stress and painful feelings.
The Importance of Rituals in a Family Setting (2 Contact Hours)
This interactive workshop is designed to increase awareness among participants of the importance of rituals to children and how these rituals impact the functioning of the caregiver family, to develop skills that help children build positive memories, and to assist participants in identifying and defining the identity of the family. It also assist participants in building skills to increase case stabilization.
Valuing Diversity (2 Contact Hours)
This interactive workshop is designed to increase participants understanding of different ethnic and cultural groups, to identify systems that perpetrate racism, and provides opportunities for participants to interact in a way that helps them recognize common attitudes, beliefs and experiences of other groups
What’s Love Got to Do with It: Five Love Languages of Children: . (1.5 Contact Hours)
This session identifies the five love languages of children and their impact on learning and behavior. It will also provide strategies for speaking the different love languages to children and how to help children start to develop fluency in the five love languages.