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PACC and PLX registrations open!
- Ongoing LearningPermanency and Adoption Competency Certificate (PACC) The Permanency and Adoption Competency Certificate (PACC) was developed in 2010 as a response to community demand to meet the need for increasing the availability and competency of a professional workforce able to work across systems to serve the unique and complex clinical and practice needs for adopted individuals…
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Kinship: Know Your Rights
- Ongoing LearningThis presentation is for relative and kinship families who are considering becoming a permanency resource for a child or youth they know and love who is in foster care. It may also be helpful for attorneys who represent kin, as well as other professionals working in the child welfare system, who want to understand the…
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[Part 2] Gender-Based Violence: A Caring, Community Approach to Supporting Childhood Survivors
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesIn Part Two of this series, we will explore trauma-informed responses to gender-based violence. We will address how to help create a healthy, safe environment that pulls survivors toward safety and well-being. Gender-based violence is not a private or family matter, it's an issue that affects the community and we must work together to provide…
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Parenting in Racially and Culturally Diverse Families Training
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United States- Ongoing LearningThis training helps participants understand the impact of parenting children from different racial/ethnic/cultural backgrounds and to know how to honor and incorporate child’s race/ethnicity/culture into their existing family system. Strategies…
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Relative/Kin Legal Clinic
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United States- Ongoing LearningFree virtual legal clinic for relative & kin families hoping to be a permanency resource for a child in foster care. What to expect during the clinic: A brief "Know…
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Brain Training for our Foster & Adoptive Kids to be Solution Seekers
It is common for foster and adoptive children to wrestle with emotional dysregulation and a sense of disconnection due to the way in which we were brought into the world, inconsistent caregiving, and our loss. I am a nature-based occupational therapist and am passionate about empowering my young clients to build awareness of their senses,…
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Financial Matters
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United States- Ongoing LearningKinship families, who are raising a nonbiological child, are faced with financial and emotional challenges and opportunities. This webinar will explore key financial topics for kinship families we will discuss include…
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Webinar: Trauma-Informed Parenting: Helping Heal the Deepest Wounds
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesJoin Us for a Webinar: Trauma-Informed Parenting: Helping Heal the Deepest Wounds Tuesday, April 22, 2025, from 1:00-2:30 p.m. (CT) “All you need is love,” says The Beatles’ tune. For…
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Kinship Support Group
Wilder Foundation 451 Lexington Pkwy N, Saint PaulEVOLVE Family Services is collaboratively hosting a Kinship Support Group with the Institute to Transform Child protection. This group is held monthly, on the last Friday of every month at…
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The Five Most Common Challenging Behaviors and What to do About Them
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 This presentation explores the most challenging behaviors children who have experienced trauma may exhibit and provides practical, trauma-informed strategies for responding with empathy and effectiveness. Child…
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Silent Battle: Understanding and Supporting Children Impacted by Trauma
St. Cloud Library 1300 W. St. Germain St. St. Cloud, MN 56301 1300 W. St. Germain St., St. CloudIn-Person Training Date/Time: Saturday May 3, 2025, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Location: St. Cloud Public Library; 1300 W St Germain St, St Cloud, MN 56301 This training is designed for foster…
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Webinar: Tantrums, Meltdowns, Blow-ups, Oh My!
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesTuesday May 6th, 2025, from 1:00-2:30 p.m. (CT) You likely do your best to try and prevent these from happening, yet they still do. Participants in this session will walk away with practical de-escalation strategies to use with kids of all ages, as well as helping kids (and yourself!) through them with calm confidence. Recognizing that…
