Adolescent Brain Development (Part 1 and 2) (6 Contact Hours)
Covers trauma-informed, youth development strategies for working with adolescents.
Career Development with Your Teen (1.5 Contact Hours)
The training teaches foster parents how to support their teens in exploring career options by using job search tools to help with career planning.
CORE Teen (14 Contact Hours)
This training covers how trauma affects youth development and how to adapt parenting strategies to better support behavior and build skills.
Living and Working with Teens Yes You Can (2 Contact Hours)
This training explores adolescent development, challenges of foster teens, strategies for supporting teens’ growth, and teen problem-solving.
Talking with Youth about Risky Behavior (1.5 Contact Hours)
This training is taken from Sex, Lies, and Hook-ups: A Parent’s Guide for Fighting Back developed by Heritage Services.
Tech Safety (2 Contact Hours)
This training equips caregivers with strategies to protect children from sexting and social media risks and promotes safe technology use.
The Circle of Courage Reclaiming Our Youth at Risk (1.5 Contact Hours)
Covers the Circle of Courage model and helps participants support foster youth by promoting belonging, mastery, independence, and generosity.
Working with Teens (2 Contact Hours)
This training foster parents understand their changing role as children become teens and shift from controlling behavior to coaching.
Youth Personal Device Use & Access: Fostering Digital Habits with Safety and Respect (1 Contact Hour)
This training helps youth develop responsible and positive digital habits.
Youth Thrive: Protective and Promotive Factors for Healthy Development (14 Contact Hours)
Covers the Youth Thrive Framework, and how to put these principles into practice.