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  • Changing Change: Supporting Children and Teens Through Transitions

    Change is a constant in life and frequently within the foster care and adoption systems.  Unfortunately, we often feel poorly prepared or trained on how to best support children and teens within these transitions.  This workshop will  explore the mental health impacts of change as well as provide tools for helping children and teens cope…

  • [Part 1] Adolescent Sexual & Reproductive Health

    Adolescence is a time of major transition physically, emotionally, and socially. Healthy sexuality is an important part of adolescent development, and caring adults play a key role in helping young people develop healthy routines, behaviors, and relationships that they can carry into their adult lives. During this workshop, participants will review adolescent health data trends,…

  • Webinar: Neuroception: Understanding the Parenting Super-Power You Didn’t Know You Had!

    - Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United States
    - Ongoing Learning

    Join Us for a Webinar: Neuroception: Understanding the Parenting Super-Power You Didn’t Know You Had! Tuesday, Jan. 27 from 12-1:00 pm (CT) via Zoom “Neuroception,” coined by Dr. Stephen Porges, is the brain/body connection that scans for and processes cues to determine whether we are safe or in danger.  In children and youth who have…

  • FASD Basics

    - Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United States
    Virtual Event
    - Ongoing Learning

    In partnership with Proof Alliance, we have incredible trainings for parents and caregivers. These online trainings are open to all EVOLVE families, including current, past, and anyone interested. We're offering a FASD training on January 28, 2026, at 12PM: "FASD Basics," this webinar covers FASD basics as well as strategies in supporting communication and dysregulation. Stay tuned…

  • [Part 2] Adolescent Sexual & Reproductive Health

    Adolescence is a time of major transition physically, emotionally, and socially. Healthy sexuality is an important part of adolescent development, and caring adults play a key role in helping young people develop healthy routines, behaviors, and relationships that they can carry into their adult lives. During this workshop, participants will review adolescent health data trends,…

  • DCYF Permanency Coffee Talk: Strategies for Addressing a Caregiver’s Wish to Decline of Northstar Kinship Assistance

    - Ongoing Learning

    This coffee talk is designed for county and tribal social workers, supervisors, and other child welfare professionals working with relative caregivers as a permanency option for Transfer of Permanent Legal and Physical Custody (TPLPC). While Northstar Kinship Assistance was intended to unify benefits and remove barriers to permanent placement, some kinship caregivers are still choosing…

  • From Blow-Up to Bonding: Finding the Balance of Attachment-Focused Discipline in Adoption

    How can you turn moments of struggle into moments of connection? Discover how brain development, implicit memories, and the “6 F’s” (Fight, Flight, Freeze, Friend, Fidget, Flop) can influence your adoptive or foster child’s reactions to traditional methods of discipline, and develop compassionate, creative, and effective strategies for limit-setting and consequences that simultaneously enhance healthy…

  • From Blow-Up to Bonding: Finding the Balance of Attachment-Focused Discipline in Adoption

    How can you turn moments of struggle into moments of connection? Discover how brain development, implicit memories, and the “6 F’s” (Fight, Flight, Freeze, Friend, Fidget, Flop) can influence your adoptive or foster child’s reactions to traditional methods of discipline, and develop compassionate, creative, and effective strategies for limit-setting and consequences that simultaneously enhance healthy…

  • The Increasing Rates of Childhood and Adolescent Anxiety: How to Help and Support Children and Adolescents Through Anxiety

    This presentation will provide an overview of anxiety among children and adolescents. It will discuss common symptoms and diagnoses. Dr. Siek will specifically focus on reasons why anxiety is on the rise among this population along with practical solutions on how caregivers and professionals can help support this population experiencing anxiety.

  • Webinar: Neuroception: Using Your Parenting Super-Power!

    - Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United States
    - Ongoing Learning

    Join Us for a Webinar: Neuroception: Using Your Parenting Super-Power! Tuesday, Feb. 03 from 12-1:00 pm (CT) via Zoom Exploring more polyvagal theory, we will dig further into how our brains and bodies react when we perceive threat and danger, factoring in caregiver behaviors.  When stressed and stretched thin, our unplanned reactions to challenges can…

  • Writing History, Uncovering Truths

    As a bestselling and award-winning author and educator, Rhodes has dedicated her life’s work to uncovering suppressed stories. In this talk, she shares her personal experience researching and publishing the first novel to depict the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and delves into the reasons why it’s taken our society so long for these important narratives…

  • Bridging the Gap: Strengthening Collaboration Between Caregivers and Families of Origin

    This interactive workshop highlights the exciting work in child welfare related to building and maintaining relationships and communication between birth parents and foster/adoptive parents. The goal of this training is to help foster parents and workers better understand the importance of families working together. We will examine the benefits and challenges of these working relationships…