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SUMMARY:Affirming a Youth's Whole Identity Training
DESCRIPTION:This is a new training that Ampersand Families is offering to our families. It will focus on how to support and affirm a youth who identifies as lesbian\, gay\, bisexual\, transgender\, queer\, questioning\, or another identity in the LGBTQ+ community in an adoptive\, pre-adoptive\, or relative/kinship home. This training will also include strategies to implement in your home to create a welcoming and inclusive space regardless of the youth’s sexuality. This training will count for Agency Specific Training in both the home study licensing process and for training hours to renew a foster care license.
URL:https://permanencyhubmn.org/event/supporting-and-affirming-lgbtq-youth/2025-01-09/
LOCATION:– Online Webinar/Training\, Support Group\, or Meeting\, MN\, United States
CATEGORIES:- Kinship/Adoptive/Foster Parents,- Ongoing Learning,- Pre-Adopt Parents,FAMILY CALENDAR
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250115T120000
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SUMMARY:Live Webinar | Navigating FASD: Empowering Foster Providers
DESCRIPTION:This one-hour training session is designed for foster parents to meet their yearly FASD training requirement for license renewal. \nIn this training\, we’ll discuss: \n\nThe impact of FASD on brain function and behavior\nFundamental characteristics of FASD\nReal life examples from caregivers\n\nAdditionally\, foster parents will be introduced to various FASD-informed support resources\, along with guidance on how to access and use these resources. By the end of the session\, participants will have a well-rounded understanding of FASD\, useful support strategies\, and valuable resources\, giving them the tools and confidence to make a positive difference in the lives of children with FASD. \nDetails: \nWednesday\, January 15\, 2025 \nNoon – 1 p.m. \non Zoom \n  \nPresenter:  A member of the Proof Alliance Speaker’s Bureau.
URL:https://permanencyhubmn.org/event/live-webinar-navigating-fasd-empowering-foster-providers/
LOCATION:– Online Webinar/Training\, Support Group\, or Meeting\, MN\, United States
CATEGORIES:- Foster Parents,- Kinship/Adoptive/Foster Parents,- Ongoing Learning
ORGANIZER;CN="Lutheran Social Service":MAILTO:welcome@chlss.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250115T130000
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SUMMARY:Deeper Dive Webinar: Parenting a Child with ADHD
DESCRIPTION:Join Us for a Deeper Dive: Parenting a Child with ADHD\nWednesday\, January 15\, 2025\, from 1:00-2:30 p.m. (CT)\nTried-and-true ADHD parenting strategies focus on creating structure\, fostering positive communication\, and encouraging self-regulation. We know how important these are\, but HOW do we actually get them to work?  Learn practical tips for incorporating these practices into your home routines and children’s daily expectations from someone who’s seen parents succeed! \nPresented by Angie Ellsworth\, MS\, LSW\, LSC\nAfter spending more than 20 years in education supporting kids with challenging behaviors and their teachers\, Angie now owns and operates Timeout Behavior Coaching\, LLC\, which provides in-home parent coaching to families and group behavior training across the region.
URL:https://permanencyhubmn.org/event/deeper-dive-webinar-parenting-a-child-with-adhd/
LOCATION:– Online Webinar/Training\, Support Group\, or Meeting\, MN\, United States
CATEGORIES:- Foster Parents,- Kinship/Adoptive/Foster Parents,- Ongoing Learning
ORGANIZER;CN="Children's Home Society of Minnesota":MAILTO:welcome@chlss.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250116T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250116T110000
DTSTAMP:20241206T195701Z
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SUMMARY:Creating Felt Safety
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: To receive a certificate of attendance for the live webinar\, attendees must register individually\, attend the entire training\, and watch from their own device to ensure proper tracking \nBeing safe doesn’t equal feeling safe! Creating felt-safety is crucial if we want to help our children decrease dysregulated behaviors. So what is felt-safety and how can we cultivate it within our families? This training addresses the three places children are looking to determine if they are safe–and it’s happening below conscious awareness. This means we can’t TELL them they are safe–we have to create environments in which they can FEEL safe. By the end\, you’ll have learned practical tools related to: the importance of moving your own nervous system into a state of safety\, how to adjust the environment to increase felt-safety\, and ways to support your child’s inner-experience to invite felt-safety. \n  \n\nRobyn Gobbel\, MSW\, has 20 years of practice in family and child therapy\, specializing in complex trauma\, attachment\, and adoption. She integrated her diverse clinical training to offer an attachment-rich\, sensory-sensitive and relational neurosciences supported healing environment for children and families. Robyn now consults\, teachers\, and trains extensively throughout the U.S. She is the host of The Baffling Behavior Show podcast and author of Raising Kids with Big\, Baffling Behaviors: Brain-Body-Sensory Strategies that Really Work.
URL:https://permanencyhubmn.org/event/creating-felt-safety/
CATEGORIES:- Foster Parents,- Kinship/Adoptive/Foster Parents,- Ongoing Learning,- Professionals
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250123T100000
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SUMMARY:"I don't care if others like me…I like me!" Teaching Teens Self-Acceptance
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: To receive a certificate of attendance for the live webinar\, attendees must register individually\, attend the entire training\, and watch from their own device to ensure proper tracking \nSelf-acceptance is vital for teens\, and self-compassion is a method to work toward it.  In this workshop\, you will learn what self-compassion is\, and how self-compassion tools can be taught to teens to help them support themselves through challenging times. Through acquiring these vital coping skills\, teens learn how to be less self-critical\, how to be their own inner coach or own best friend. In research studies\, teens who participate in self-compassion programs report lower stress\, anxiety and depression – and even less suicidal thinking – after the program is over and in the months that follow. An overview of this research will be presented in the workshop. The workshop will be interactive – you will learn self-compassion skills by engaging in activities and exercises\, and discussion will follow. You will leave with a plan on how to implement what you have learned with the teens with whom you work. \n  \n\nDr. Karen Bluth is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina\, where she conducts research on self-compassion and its influences on the emotional wellbeing of teens. Dr. Bluth is co-creator of the curriculum Mindful Self-Compassion for Teens and the author of “The Self-Compassion Workbook for Teens: Mindfulness and Compassion Skills to Overcome Self-Criticism and Embrace Who You Are”\, “The Self-Compassionate Teen: Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Skills to Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice”\, co-author of “Mindfulness and Self-Compassion for Teen ADHD: Build Executive Functioning Skills\, Increase Motivation\, and Improve Self-Confidence” and the Audible Original “Self-Compassion for Teen Girls: A Guide for Parents\, Teachers\, and Coaches.” Her latest book\, “Mindful Self-Compassion for Teens in Schools: A 16-session Social and Emotional Learning Curriculum”  was released June 2024\, and offers a version of the Mindful Self-Compassion for Teens curriculum that is formatted for the classroom. She is also a developer of Embracing Your Life: A Self-Compassion Program for Young Adults and Self-Compassion for Educators. In addition\, she is the 2022 recipient of the inaugural Mind and Life Foundation award for Public Communication of Contemplative Research. \nAs a mindfulness practitioner for over 45 years\, a mindfulness teacher\, and an educator with 18 years of classroom teaching experience\, Dr. Bluth frequently gives talks\, conducts workshops\, and teaches classes in self-compassion and mindfulness in educational and community settings. In addition\, she trains teachers in Mindful Self-Compassion for Teens internationally.
URL:https://permanencyhubmn.org/event/i-dont-care-if-others-like-mei-like-me-teaching-teens-self-acceptance/
CATEGORIES:- Foster Parents,- Kinship/Adoptive/Foster Parents,- Ongoing Learning,- Professionals
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250127T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250127T143000
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SUMMARY:Benefit Agreement 101
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: To receive a certificate of attendance for the live webinar\, attendees must register individually\, attend the entire training\, and watch from their own device to ensure proper tracking \nA general overview to support the understanding of Northstar Adoption Assistance and Kinship Assistance Benefit Agreements. This workshop is geared to parents and caregivers\, but may be helpful to professionals. There will be time reserved at the end for Q&A. \n  \n\nPermanency Quality Assurance Team\, Department of Children\, Youth\, and Families\, Elisha and Nicole. \nElisha graduated from St. Cloud State University in 2010 with a bachelor’s of science – social work. Elisha holds her LSW license through the Minnesota Board of Social Work and currently works for the Department of Children\, Youth\, and Families (DCYF). Within DCYF\, Elisha started in Family Systems Licensing as a program consultant for foster care\, community residential settings\, and child placing agencies. In March of 2018\, Elisha joined Child Safety & Permanency as a Permanency Quality Assurance Consultant for Northstar Adoption & Kinship Assistance. Prior to DCYF\, Elisha worked for different county systems primarily practicing in child welfare and child protection including adult & relative child foster care licensing\, on-going child protection case management\, and relative search. \nNicole obtained a BSW from Winona State University in 2014 and a MSW from Winona State University in 2024. Nicole holds a LGSW license through the Minnesota Board of Social Work. Nicole was a Title IV-E scholar through her graduate program with a focus on child welfare. Nicole currently works for DCYF in the Child Safety & Permanency administration as a Permanency Quality Assurance Consultant. Prior to joining the DCYF team\, Nicole had 10 years of social work practice experience and has practiced with a variety of populations including: the aging population\, mental health case management and ARMHS\, jail social work\, waiver case management\, and spent the past 5 years practicing in child welfare: including child protection\, permanency\, ICPC\, and licensing. Nicole is a NASW Certified Supervisor\, and holds certificates in Permanency and Adoption Competency\, as well as Policy Practice.
URL:https://permanencyhubmn.org/event/benefit-agreement-101/
CATEGORIES:- Foster Parents,- Kinship/Adoptive/Foster Parents,- Ongoing Learning,- Pre-Adopt Parents,- Professionals
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250129T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250129T143000
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SUMMARY:Risk is not Destiny: Behavioral Interventions for Children and Teens Affected by Prenatal Substance Exposure
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: To receive a certificate of attendance for the live webinar\, attendees must register individually\, attend the entire training\, and watch from their own device to ensure proper tracking \nThousands of children per year in this country are delivered to women who have used alcohol\, tobacco\, marijuana\, or illicit drugs during pregnancy.  This program will explore the biological and environmental factors that impact the ultimate development of substance-exposed children\, provide a conceptual framework for understanding the behavior and learning difficulties of children affected by prenatal substance exposure\, and discuss how this framework can be applied to the development of interventions at home and at school. \n  \n\nIra J. Chasnoff\, M.D.\, an award-winning author\, researcher and lecturer\, is president of NTI Upstream and a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago. He is one of the nation’s leading researchers in the field of child development and the effects of environmental factors on the developmental trajectory of children and adolescents. Dr. Chasnoff’s work encompasses community approaches to the integration of behavioral health services into primary health care\, the schools\, and the other multiple systems that serve children and families. Dr. Chasnoff has served several U.S. presidential administrations on committees and commissions dedicated to organizing and coordinating services for children and families across the nation and developing policies and procedures for addressing the needs of children at risk from prenatal and postnatal trauma. He also has worked with a wide range of States across the nation and internationally in developing universal outreach and early intervention programs for children and families affected by trauma or substance abuse. \nDr. Chasnoff received his medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio\, which in 1991 awarded him its first Distinguished Alumnus Award. He is the author of numerous research articles regarding the long-term cognitive\, behavioral\, and learning outcomes of high-risk children\, and his article on racial and social class bias in the health care system has been cited as a landmark study by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Dr. Chasnoff has authored 15 books\, which have received numerous awards and one of which has been recognized by The Hague International Court. Dr. Chasnoff’s books explore the biological and environmental factors that impact the ultimate development of high-risk children and presents practical strategies for helping children reach their full potential at home and in the classroom. His newest book\, Guided Growth\, has received international acclaim for its in-depth discussion of educational and behavioral interventions for children and teens with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and early trauma. Dr. Chasnoff has been a regular contributor to Psychology Today\, writing about high-risk children and their families. The recipient of several awards for his work with women\, children\, and families\, Dr. Chasnoff for several years has been selected by a poll of physicians across the nation for listing in America’s Best Doctors\, cited for his ability to translate complex medical and psychosocial issues into relevant policy that guides the delivery of quality services. Dr. Chasnoff has been active in establishing comprehensive family intervention programs for children in Australia\, Denmark\, Portugal\, Canada\, Vietnam\, the former Soviet Union\, and across the United States and has lectured on this topic around the world.
URL:https://permanencyhubmn.org/event/risk-is-not-destiny-behavioral-interventions-for-children-and-teens-affected-by-prenatal-substance-exposure/
CATEGORIES:- Foster Parents,- Kinship/Adoptive/Foster Parents,- Ongoing Learning,- Professionals
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