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[IN-PERSON] AM SESSION: Exploring Complicated Relationships in Foster and Adoptive Families
Community Memorial Hospital, 512 Skyline Boulevard, Cloquet, Minnesota 55720This in-person event will be held at Community Memorial Hospital in the Pine Meeting Room: 512 Skyline Boulevard, Cloquet, Minnesota 55720 If planning to attend the afternoon session as well, please register for both sessions. Lunch is provided from 12 - 1pm only. If capacity limit is reached, please email edu@fosteradoptmn.org to join the waitlist. Foster families…
[IN-PERSON] PM SESSION: Managing Mental Health of Children in Care – Multiple and Co-occurring Disorders
Community Memorial Hospital, 512 Skyline Boulevard, Cloquet, Minnesota 55720This in-person event will be held at Community Memorial Hospital in the Pine Meeting Room: 512 Skyline Boulevard, Cloquet, Minnesota 55720 If planning to attend the morning session as well, please register for both sessions. Lunch is provided from 12 - 1pm only. If capacity limit is reached, please email edu@fosteradoptmn.org to join the waitlist. This presentation…
Supporting Your Biological Child
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesPlease join us for a workshop with Daniela Coats. Many foster and adoptive parents have questions surrounding the impact that foster care and adoption will have on their biological children. This presentation will examine the experiences of biological children, how to prepare them for the journey ahead, and ways to support them along the way.…
Redefining Resilience
Foster Adopt Minnesota 2446 University Ave W, Suite 104, St. Paul, MN, United StatesBefore it became a popular buzzword, resilience was an adjective used to describe goldfish or tires, something that didn’t need much taking care of. Even the dictionary says that resilience is about the “ability to return to the original shape.” Isn’t that a little ridiculous? How can we possibly be expected to return to our…
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…
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 authentic selves, research, and drawing on personal experiences and insights from the pandemic, Rae explores practical strategies to maximize joy and meaning in your work…
[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 CPM's effects. Using "Present Moment Parenting: The Guide to a Peaceful Life with Your Intense Child," parents can learn ways to help children feel emotionally…
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…
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…
[For Professionals] Exploring Complicated Relationships in Foster and Adoptive Families
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesFoster families claim and then relinquish children they love. Children who are adopted change the families who claim them in permanent ways. Blended families often have foster children, adopted children and birth children. These children all have different experiences of what being part of a family means. Loyalty, loss, anger, trauma and fear create an…
