• W.I.S.E. Up!®

    Children’s Home – St. Paul Office, 1605 Eustis Street, Saint Paul, MN, 55108, United States
    - Activities

    FREE Dinner and Live Workshop for Parents and Children (Grades 3-6)  W.I.S.E. Up!® is an empowerment program designed to create a safe space for children to express their feelings about being…

  • Webinar: Child to Parent Violence

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

    Join Us for a Webinar: Child to Parent Violence Tuesday, Nov. 4 from 7:00 – 8:30 pm (CT) via Zoom This training explores the often-overlooked dynamic of child-to-parent violence, a…

  • Affirming a Youth’s Whole Identity Training

    Supporting and Affirming LGBTQ+ Youth
    - Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United States
    - Ongoing Learning

    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…

  • Live Webinar | Caregiver/Child Connectedness for Kinship Families

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

    Caregiver/child connectedness (CCC) is a high-quality emotional bond between a child and their primary caregiver that is felt by both and is long-lasting. Research shows that CCC has many protective factors for young people, including a reduction in risk-taking behaviors. Details: Tuesday, November 11 & Wednesday, November 12 Noon-1:00 p.m. on Zoom

  • Webinar: Wholistic View of Health

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

    Join Us for a Webinar: Wholistic View of Health Tuesday, Nov. 11 from 7:00 – 8:30 pm (CT) via Zoom This training is designed for foster and adoptive parents who want to better understand the whole-child perspective. We will explore how physical health, emotional and psychological health, and behavior are deeply interconnected, and how challenges in…

  • [Fall Forum] Indigenous Kids in Foster and Adoptive Placements

    - Ongoing Learning

    Join renowned scholar and educator Anton Treuer for an in-depth training event, "Indigenous Kids in Foster and Adoptive Placements: From the Indian Child Welfare Act to Best Practices for Helping…

    Free
  • [Fall Forum] Unlocking the Power of Play for Connection

    Play is biologically hard-wired into every human. It's not frivolous; it's a powerful, fundamental tool to build resilience, empathy, connection, trust, well-being, creativity, optimism, and more. Play enables human flourishing.…

    Free