Explores the process and challenges of moving from foster care to adoption and offers insight and advice for helping adoptive family members through those challenges.
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Explores the benefits and challenges of building a working relationship between foster and primary families, and offers strategies for developing respectful, positive communication.
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Explores adding a foster child to the family and offers insight into how to preserve the family structure and reduce stress caused by a changing dynamic.
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Explores problematic behavior in foster children and how foster parents can better understand the purpose of a child’s behavior through careful observation.
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Explores the foster home investigative process, Plans of Corrective Action, and the role of foster care investigators.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
In this Advanced Parenting Workshop, parents learn about the types and components of anger. Then they work together to create an action plan for calming an angry child.
6 credit hours, $30.00 per person
This Advanced Parenting Workshop provides an in-depth study of lying. Participants work together to create an action plan for coping with lying.
6 credit hours, $30.00 per person
Charley Joyce, LICSW, discusses grief and loss as it impacts foster children, birth parents and foster caregivers.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
A pre-service course designed for individuals interested in caregiving which focuses on child maltreatment. Learn about the characteristics, symptoms and reporting standards for child maltreatment.
Caution: contains graphic images.
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Dr. Robert Nickel and Susan Edelstein, M.S. discuss the issues and challenges faced by parents who care for substance-exposed infants, including the effects of legal and illegal drugs, multiple substance abuse, working with the child’s professional team, and successful parenting strategies.
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Covers the difference between healthy and unhealthy attachment, how separation and loss affect attachment, and how attachment theory applies to real life.
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Explores the emotional and behavioral effects of child sexual abuse on children in care and offers strategies to help overcome the challenges foster parents face.
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Explores typical child development, developmental domains and stages, temperament and goodness of fit, and the effects of abuse and neglect on a child’s health and behavior.
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Michael F. Quinn, M.A., uses a professional child care worker’s approach to child safety, providing foster parents with effective supervision strategies and tools for collecting background information, making in-home observations, and making supervision adjustments.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Dr. Tanya M. Coakley discusses how culturally competent parenting can provide minority children an environment that respects and nourishes their sense of self.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Viewers will learn about family feuds, allegiance to birth parents, distance and defiance with kinship family.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Viewers learn how to use cooperation, tracking behavior, and encouragement as parenting techniques.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
This course discusses setting limits and behavior contracts as positive parenting techniques.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Strategies for using time-out, privilege removal, and assignment of extra chores to manage difficult behavior are discussed
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Explores the role and challenges mandated child abuse reporters face during the reporting process and offers strategies for helping insure subsequent investigations are not compromised.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Covers how the child welfare system works, purpose and goals of the system, key terms, and who the child welfare team members are, as well as their roles and responsibilities.
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Viewers will learn to Identify symptoms and causes of anxiety disorders in children, emotional symptoms, steps to take & treatment options.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Dr. Robert Nickel addresses the many challenges parents of children with autism face: social and communication deficits, and common medical problems.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Common behaviors addressed in this course include getting out of trouble, gaining attention, pathological, and getting others in trouble.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Searching for roots, running from rules, running from love and intimacy, wanting to be wanted, and running to street crime.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Topics covered in this course include shoplifting, stealing based on envy or revenge, kleptomania, and stealing from loved ones.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Healthy and unhealthy attachment, the emotionally promiscuous RAD child, the hyper-vigilant RAD child, RAD & other diagnoses are discussed in this course.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Roles and responsibilities, entering a new school, working with the school staff, special education, and parent advocacy are discussed in this course.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
What to expect before, during, and after visitation with birth parents and strategies for helping the foster child transition back to their foster home are examined in this course.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Dr. Rick Delaney discusses how an understanding of the ABCs of behavior can help parents ward off angry outbursts.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
This course covers temper tantrums, assaultive behavior towards other children, rage towards the mother, and erratic or unpredictable anger.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Explores the challenges foster families face pre-placement, during placement, and post-placement and offers insights and advice for helping birth children through those challenges.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
This course examines self-injury, high-risk behavior, suicidal behavior, reckless accident proneness, and hair pulling.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
This course explores diagnosis and treatments of ADHD, ADD, and ODD, and discusses steps to help children with these disorders.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
This course shows how foster parents can observe safety rules for licensed or certified residential care facilities using self-inspections.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Developing safety and treatment plans are discussed in the context of meeting state regulations and the individual child's needs.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Fire-setting behaviors such as silent but deadly, impulsive, disturbed, accidental, and curious are examined in this course.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Wetting as an emotional outlet, wetting as a self-defense, classic daytime or nighttime wetting, soiling and smearing feces, constipation and withholding stools and discussed in this course.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Viewers will learn about roaming, nightmares and night terrors, sleeping alone, and depression.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Causes of and strategies for dealing with stealing and hoarding food, gorging, refusing certain foods, and anorexia are examined.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
This course examines obsessive sexual behavior, sexual behavior with siblings, seductive behavior towards adults, and public masturbation.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
This course helps foster parent couples improve communication with each other, resolve conflicts in their relationship, and promote intimacy.
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Designed for agency staff and social workers - Rick Delaney, Ph.D. addresses issues of family dynamics aimed at increasing placement stability and improved lives for children in care.
4 credit hours, $30.00 per person
