Launching Your Teen to College
Join Sarah Benson, Education Specialist for Families Rising Minnesota, on October 8 at 7:00 PM for Part 1 of our 3 part webinar series designed to equip you with everything you need to know to help launch your teen to…
The Voices of Lived Expertise Virtual Training Series
Join us for a four-part virtual training series that delves deep into the difficult truths of adoption and the foster care system. Designed to equip professionals and caregivers with essential knowledge and tools, each session is thoughtfully delivered by subject matter experts…
FALL FORUM: Empowered Healing: A Strengths-Based Approach to Trauma and Well-Being
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…
FALL FORUM: Ambiguity, Loss, & Grief: Supporting Children, Teens, & Young Adults in Foster Care
“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…
FALL FORUM: Attachment and Recovery
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…
FALL FORUM: Girls on the Brink: Raising Emotionally Healthy Girls
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…
FALL FORUM: Inside Transracial Families
Its often difficult to see the full picture in adoption. Adoptees and adoptive parents have individual and unique perspectives and struggles that don't get seen side by side. Inside Transracial Adoption is a window into the journey of an adoptive…
FALL FORUM: Healing Together: Navigating Trauma for Foster Children and Caregivers
This workshop explores the profound impact of trauma on both foster children and caregivers. It provides a compassionate and insightful examination of the unique challenges faced by these groups, emphasizing the importance of a collaborative and empathetic approach to healing.…
FALL FORUM: Behavior with a Purpose
Behavior problems shown by children-in-care can act as a stubborn barrier to the creation of healing relationships to foster, kinship and adoptive caregivers and helping professionals. This workshop will focus on the “whys” of complex behavioral/emotional challenges. When these challenges…
FALL FORUM: Cultural Humility When Walking Alongside Indigenous Peoples
A training for agency staff and service providers who have limited knowledge of tribal cultures and histories, intended to encourage culturally appropriate approaches to supporting Native children and families.