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Countering Learned Helplessness in Youth
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesIn this workshop, we will delve into strategies for combating learned helplessness in young individuals. Our focus will be twofold: examining the factors that contribute to the development of learned helplessness in youth, and exploring the concept of learned optimism as its antithesis. Laura Thro M.P.S. focuses on healing after trauma by utilizing restorative and transformational…
[FosterEd] Making a Difference: Caring for the Infant with Prenatal Exposure to Drugs
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesOver 300,000 children in this country per year are delivered to women who have used alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, or opiates and other illicit drugs during pregnancy. This program will explore factors that impact the newborn from both a medical and a neurobehavioral perspective and provide strategies that parents and caregivers can use to address Neonatal…
Foster Care and Education Classes – Online
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesThe online track is best suited for individuals who want flexibility, have limited business hour availability, and/or those who prefer virtual learning. Couples may complete their education together or pursue it separately. Either way, each participant must attend the entirety of their chosen track. In this track, you will complete your education over a four-week…
Reclaim Your Joy: The Future of Work is Human
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesBeing your authentic self at work is the key to more joy, fulfillment, and success. Based on over ten years of helping clients discover and show up as their most…
Virtual Kinship Support & Education Group
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United States1st & 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…
[FosterEd] Ways to Soothe and Comfort – Coaching Parents of Children Who Have Experienced Child Psychological Maltreatment
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesChild Psychological Maltreatment (CPM) has come to greater awareness in the Child Protection field, as its impact is profound. Parent Coaching is proving itself to be highly effective in healing…
Why Permanency is Important
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesWe often focus on the time it takes for children to reach permanency and strive to meet permanency timelines set by both the courts and the federal government. However, it…
Building a Pathway for Trauma-Informed Youth
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesThrough childhood and adolescence we encounter critical incidents in which the opportunity to become more aware of ourselves and emotionally connected to another is made available. Trauma steals that from us. In this training, Cam interrogates the process through which trauma turns “everything was good” to “everything is cursed.” Helping youth become trauma-informed cultivates clarity…
Strategies to Support Foster and Adoptive Families with Gender Expansive and LGBTQIA+ Youth
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesThere are amazing aspects to caring for a child or teen who is either questioning- or clear- that they are a member of the LGBTQIA+ community. At the same time, there are also thought provoking and stressful elements to this experience. This presentation will debunk common myths and answer questions like: How can…
Search & Reunion Support Group
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesThis group is for adult adoptees and birth parents who are not related to one another and who are considering, or active in, search and reunion or have searched and the other party is not open to contact. This group is facilitated by CH/LSS staff. Members are supportive of one another and willing to share…
Deeper Dive Webinar: Navigating the Transition from Adolescence to Young Adulthood
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesAs adoptive and foster parents, we know that our youth may need additional supports as they enter adulthood, but these supports are often hard to find and difficult to understand. Parents often “Don’t know what they don’t know” and learn about options after the fact. Join adoptive parents Martha Johnson and Katie Neumann as they…
The Role of Technology in Anxiety Among Kids
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesTechnology plays an important role in all our lives and children are increasingly more digitally literate than their parents. While technology—and social media in particular—can bring people together, it also presents risks. These risks include but are not limited to bullying, doxxing, and social isolation. Dr. Abigail Gewirtz’s interactive presentation will focus on the relationship…
