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  • Live Webinar | Caregiver Strategies to Support Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders

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

    Understand what fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) are, and receive a variety of strategies to support children with FASD. Specifically, we will: Address the stigma surrounding prenatal alcohol exposure. Recognize the fundamental characteristics of FASD. Discuss the impact of prenatal alcohol exposure on the developing brain. Discuss strategies, tools and tips that can help support…

  • Adult Adoptee Support Group

    Adult Adoptee Support Group

    - Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United States +1 more
    - Support Groups

    Adult Adoptees from all placing agencies are welcome to attend. While each story is unique, we recognize that there are many core similarities that adoption weaves into life experiences. Topics will be suggested, but each month the conversation will be open to relevant, participant-led, discussion. This is a safe, confidential space, the group is facilitated…

  • Kinship Parenting and Building Resilience

    Kinship Parenting and Building Resilience

    Virtual Conference conference@wearefamiliesrising.org
    - Ongoing Learning

    This 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…

  • Foster Care and Adoption Education Classes – In-Person

    Foster Care and Adoption Education Classes – In-Person

    Children’s Home – St. Paul Office, 1605 Eustis Street, Saint Paul, MN, 55108, United States
    - Pre-Adoption Classes & Orientation

    The in-person track is best suited for individuals who need or desire to complete their education quickly, prefer in-person learning and/or those who have previously completed education and want a…

  • Virtual Kinship Support & Education Group

    Virtual Kinship Support & Education Group

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

    1st & 3rd Fridays of the Month 9:30-10:45 am on Zoom Facilitator:  Janet Salo, Kinship Navigator Providing education, information and mutual support for kinship caregivers-those caring for a relative's or friend's child. Thoughtful topics that help you in your role as a kinship caregiver such as child development, relationships with adult children, understanding trauma, mental…

  • TBRI Caregiver Training: Introduction & Overview

    Pioneer Grill 4403 Pioneer Rd SE, Alexandria
    - Ongoing Learning

    Presenter: Ben Nesbitt, TBRI Practitioner Date: November 16th, 2024 Time: 9 AM – 4 PM Location: Pioneer Grill by Knute Nelson, 4403 Pioneer Road SE, Alexandria, MN 56308 Lunch will be provided.   Training Description: Trust-based Relational Intervention (TBRI) is an attachment-based, trauma-informed intervention that is designed to meet the complex needs of vulnerable children. TBRI…

  • FALL FORUM: Girls on the Brink: Raising Emotionally Healthy Girls

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

    In this lecture for parents and professionals,  science journalist and author Donna Jackson Nakazawa will explore the causes of the mental health epidemic facing girls today and revelatory new strategies to help girls thrive. Donna will deftly braid together the latest findings from the annals of neuroscience to show why so many girls today are…

  • FALL FORUM: Attachment and Recovery

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

    This workshop will introduce tools that support families to have important conversations with their children and young people. Richard will introduce approaches for understanding and communicating attachment schemas. He will present six tools that will help us see through the wall of challenges in caring for complex children and young people so that we can…

  • FALL FORUM: Ambiguity, Loss, & Grief: Supporting Children, Teens, & Young Adults in Foster Care

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

    “My parents didn’t die, but it felt like that.” When children and teens are separated from their families, they search for belonging while navigating the new contexts and people surrounding them. In this dynamic session, Dr. Monique B. Mitchell reveals the questions children have as they cope with ambiguity and loss in foster care: Why?…

  • FALL FORUM: Empowered Healing: A Strengths-Based Approach to Trauma and Well-Being

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

    Discover how cutting-edge neurobiology redefines the trauma response—not as a sign of weakness or disorder, but as the body’s natural, functional response to threat. In this transformative training, you’ll learn how to reframe trauma from an empowered, strengths-based perspective, and learn how to harness inherent resilience. This training provides practical tools you can immediately integrate…

  • Debunking Myths and Engaging Community About Foster Care & Adoption

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

    There are more than 6,000 children at any given time in Minnesota in foster care, over 500 of whom are waiting to be adopted. A panel of adoptive and foster…

  • Greater Minnesota Parent Support Group

    Greater Minnesota Parent Support Group

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

    Open to pre-adoptive, adoptive, foster, relative and/or kinship caregivers living in Greater Minnesota (outside the Twin Cities Metro Area). This online group is facilitated by CH/LSS staff and offers connection,…