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Kin First Culture: Taking it to the next Level
Owatonna Eagles 141 E Rose Street, OwatonnaThis is Day 1 one of a two-day conference and is geared toward professionals working in the field of Child Welfare, include Child Welfare Staff, Guardian Ad Litems, County Attorneys, therapeutic providers and school personnel. Join us for a Kinship Conference where we can come together and learn from two nationally known trainers to help…
Caregiver Strategies to Support Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesDescription: This presentation provides caregivers with a basic background of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and a variety of tips and strategies to support children with FASD. Strategies included covering topics such as: communication, emotional dysregulation, sensory environments, and more. To move towards a judgement-free society where individuals feel safe to seek the support they deserve, bias…
Redefining Resilience
Foster Adopt Minnesota 2446 University Ave W, Suite 104, St. Paul, MN, United StatesBefore it became a popular buzzword, resilience was an adjective used to describe goldfish or tires, something that didn’t need much taking care of. Even the dictionary says that resilience…
Countering Learned Helplessness in Youth
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesIn this workshop, we will delve into strategies for combating learned helplessness in young individuals. Our focus will be twofold: examining the factors that contribute to the development of learned helplessness in youth, and exploring the concept of learned optimism as its antithesis. Laura Thro M.P.S. focuses on healing after trauma by utilizing restorative and transformational…
Reclaim Your Joy: The Future of Work is Human
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesBeing your authentic self at work is the key to more joy, fulfillment, and success. Based on over ten years of helping clients discover and show up as their most…
Building a Pathway for Trauma-Informed Youth
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesThrough childhood and adolescence we encounter critical incidents in which the opportunity to become more aware of ourselves and emotionally connected to another is made available. Trauma steals that from…
Strategies to Support Foster and Adoptive Families with Gender Expansive and LGBTQIA+ Youth
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesThere are amazing aspects to caring for a child or teen who is either questioning- or clear- that they are a member of the LGBTQIA+ community. At the same…
Deeper Dive Webinar: Navigating the Transition from Adolescence to Young Adulthood
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesAs adoptive and foster parents, we know that our youth may need additional supports as they enter adulthood, but these supports are often hard to find and difficult to understand.…
The Role of Technology in Anxiety Among Kids
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesTechnology plays an important role in all our lives and children are increasingly more digitally literate than their parents. While technology—and social media in particular—can bring people together, it also…
8th International Conference on Adoption Research
University of Minnesota, Twin CitiesCelebrating its 25th anniversary, the International Conference on Adoption Research (ICAR8) is a premier event for attendees from the Global South and Global North who are devoted to ensuring permanent,…
[For Professionals] Exploring Complicated Relationships in Foster and Adoptive Families
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesFoster families claim and then relinquish children they love. Children who are adopted change the families who claim them in permanent ways. Blended families often have foster children, adopted children…
Lifelong Issues in Adoption: Reframing the discourse through lived experiences
Northrop Auditorium 84 Church St SE, MinneapolisDuring the past two decades more than 27,000 adoptees have joined Minnesota families from abroad or the public welfare system. Many, if not most, are now at an age where…
