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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…
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…
[FosterEd] Making a Difference: Caring for the Infant with Prenatal Exposure to Drugs
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesOver 300,000 children in this country per year are delivered to women who have used alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, or opiates and other illicit drugs during pregnancy. This program will explore factors that impact the newborn from both a medical and a neurobehavioral perspective and provide strategies that parents and caregivers can use to address Neonatal…
[FosterEd] Ways to Soothe and Comfort – Coaching Parents of Children Who Have Experienced Child Psychological Maltreatment
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesChild Psychological Maltreatment (CPM) has come to greater awareness in the Child Protection field, as its impact is profound. Parent Coaching is proving itself to be highly effective in healing CPM's effects. Using "Present Moment Parenting: The Guide to a Peaceful Life with Your Intense Child," parents can learn ways to help children feel emotionally…
Why Permanency is Important
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesWe often focus on the time it takes for children to reach permanency and strive to meet permanency timelines set by both the courts and the federal government. However, it is also important to consider why timely permanency is important to children. This training will explore children’s developmental knowledge and understanding of time. Participants will…
Live Webinar | Ages & Stages of Healthy Sexual Development
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesThe goal of each webinar in the series is to provide information on healthy sexual development by discussing typical developmental milestones and what this means for caregivers. Participants will also have the opportunity to practice responding to ”teachable moments” about healthy sexuality with the young people in their lives. June Presenter: Cat Hammond brings more…
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 presents risks. These risks include but are not limited to bullying, doxxing, and social isolation. Dr. Abigail Gewirtz’s interactive presentation will focus on the relationship…
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, nurturing family care for every child. A cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas, innovation and information, the conference explores how to improve the entire spectrum of services…
[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 and birth children. These children all have different experiences of what being part of a family means. Loyalty, loss, anger, trauma and fear create an…
Kinship Parenting and Building Resilience
Ampersand Families Office 1751 County Rd B West Suite 300, RosevilleThis training acknowledges the complexities associated with Relative/Kinship caregiving through fostering and adoption. Topics will include divided loyalties, redefining roles and relationships, setting boundaries with parents and other relatives, the range of emotions caregivers can feel and how children who have experienced trauma, separation, or loss can impact a caregiver’s own well-being. Strategies for how…
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 they are grappling with issues of identity and race, questioning how and whether to search for birth family, and wondering if their early experiences might…
