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Healthy Sexual Development
This course is Closed Captioned
Explores healthy sexual development of children and teens in care and how parents can support youth’s sexual health and wellness.
Credit Hours: 4
Cost:
2
training units
or $20 per person
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Autism: A Strength-Based Approach
This course is Closed Captioned
Explores autism, how to identify autism in children, and how to support children with autism and encourage their strengths and abilities.
Credit Hours: 4
Cost:
2
training units
or $20 per person
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Building Trust, Motivating Change
Explores how parents can use motivational interviewing techniques to help build trust with the youth in their home, engage them in conversation, and encourage behavior change. Designed for parents of teens, but may be helpful for parents of younger youth as well.
Credit Hours: 2
Cost:
1
training unit
or $10 per person
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Eating & Food Issues
This course is Closed Captioned
Explores common eating and food issues for children in care, including hoarding food and excessive eating, eating food from unhealthy sources, overweight and obesity, and picky eating.
Credit Hours: 2
Cost:
1
training unit
or $10 per person
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Could It Be FASD?
This course is Closed CaptionedDisponible en español
Explores fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, how to identify them, and how parents can support children who were prenatally exposed to alcohol. [Also available in Spanish]
Credit Hours: 2
Cost:
1
training unit
or $10 per person
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Preparing Teens for Postsecondary Education
This course is Closed CaptionedDisponible en español
Explores postsecondary education and how resource parents can help youth in grades 6 to 10 prepare for it. (For parents in California, this course is equivalent to Turning Dreams into Degrees, Education Course 1.) [Also available in Spanish]
Credit Hours: 4
Cost:
2
training units
or $20 per person
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Escalating Behavior Unwrapped
This course is Closed CaptionedDisponible en español
Explores escalation, its causes, and strategies for de-escalation. Before taking this course, it is strongly recommended that trainees take Trauma-Informed Parenting. [Also available in Spanish]
Credit Hours: 2
Cost:
1
training unit
or $10 per person
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Understanding Sex Trafficking
This course is Closed CaptionedDisponible en español
Explores commercial sexual exploitation of children, what it is, and how parents can recognize signs that a child is being sexually exploited. [Also available in Spanish]
Credit Hours: 2
Cost:
1
training unit
or $10 per person
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Children Entering Care: Mental Health Issues
This course is Closed CaptionedDisponible en español
Explores common mental health issues for children entering care, how disorders are diagnosed and treated, and how parents can work with professionals to support their children's mental health needs. [Also available in Spanish]
Credit Hours: 2
Cost:
1
training unit
or $10 per person
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Problematic Sexual Behaviors (Advanced Parenting Workshop)
This course is Closed Captioned
This Advanced Parenting Workshop addresses problematic sexual behavior in children in care. With the help of Dr. Silovsky and the teaching assistant, participants learn how to determine whether a child's sexual behavior is problematic and how to respond to a child's sexual behavior.
Credit Hours: 6
Cost:
3
training units
or $30 per person
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Social & Physical Aggression (Advanced Parenting Workshop)
This Advanced Parenting Workshop explores social and physical aggression in children. With the help of Dr. Delaney and his teaching assistant, participants learn how to support children with aggressive behavior.
Credit Hours: 6
Cost:
3
training units
or $30 per person
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Children Entering Care: Physical Health Issues
This course is Closed CaptionedDisponible en español
Explores common physical health issues for children entering care and how parents can collaborate with health care providers to support their children's medical needs. [Also available in Spanish]
Credit Hours: 2
Cost:
1
training unit
or $10 per person
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Supporting Normalcy
This course is Closed CaptionedDisponible en español
Explores how to provide normalcy for youth in care using the reasonable and prudent parenting standards. [Also available in Spanish]
Credit Hours: 2
Cost:
1
training unit
or $10 per person
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Parenting a Child Who Was Substance Exposed
This course is Closed Captioned
Explores how parents can care for children who were prenatally exposed to substances or drug endangered.
Credit Hours: 2
Cost:
1
training unit
or $10 per person
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Understanding Birth Family Relationships
This course is Closed Captioned
Explores the range of openness in adoption, the birth connection, and birth relationships.
Credit Hours: 2
Cost:
1
training unit
or $10 per person
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Self-Injury (Advanced Parenting Workshop)
This Advanced Parenting Workshop explores non-suicidal self-injury and other forms of self-injurious behavior. With the help of Dr. Delaney and his teaching assistant, participants develop an action plan to decrease or stop the self-injury.
Credit Hours: 6
Cost:
3
training units
or $30 per person
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Trauma-Informed Parenting
This course is Closed CaptionedDisponible en español
Explores how parents can care for a child while being sensitive to his or her past traumatic experiences. [Also available in Spanish]
Credit Hours: 2
Cost:
1
training unit
or $10 per person
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Noncompliance and Defiance
This course is Closed Captioned
Examines the spectrum of cooperation and noncompliance, from fearful cooperation to defiance, including the zone in the middle of the spectrum called self-assertion.
Credit Hours: 2
Cost:
1
training unit
or $10 per person
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Fire Play and Fire Setting
This course is Closed Captioned
Covers fire play and fire setting and the differences between the two behaviors.
Credit Hours: 2
Cost:
1
training unit
or $10 per person
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Understanding Noncompliance (Advanced Parenting Workshop)
This Advanced Parenting Workshop introduces the spectrum of cooperation and noncompliance, then explores how trauma can affect a child’s ability to cooperate.
Credit Hours: 6
Cost:
3
training units
or $30 per person
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Taking Things without Permission (Advanced Parenting Workshop)
This Advanced Parenting Workshop explores the common reasons for taking things. With the help of Dr. Rick Delaney and his teaching assistant, participants develop an action plan.
Credit Hours: 6
Cost:
3
training units
or $30 per person
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Taking Things - Stealing
This course is Closed Captioned
Explores common reasons for taking things, including experimentation, intellectual disability, trauma history, and social or psychiatric problems.
Credit Hours: 2
Cost:
1
training unit
or $10 per person
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It's My Marriage!
Explores how resource parent couples can resolve conflict and promote intimacy in the family through improved communication.
Credit Hours: 8
Cost:
4
training units
or $40 per person
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Sleep Problems (2nd Edition)
This course is Closed Captioned
Examines four types of sleep problems in children: fears about sleeping alone, frequent waking and roaming, nightmares and night terrors, and sleep problems and depression.
Credit Hours: 2
Cost:
1
training unit
or $10 per person
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Cultural Issues in Parenting
This course is Closed CaptionedDisponible en español
Examines how parents can support children’s cultural differences, including differences in customs, beliefs, sexual orientation, and gender identity, and why that is important to healthy growth and development. [Also available in Spanish]
Credit Hours: 4
Cost:
2
training units
or $20 per person
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Foster Care to Adoption
This course is Closed CaptionedDisponible en español
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. [Also available in Spanish]
Credit Hours: 4
Cost:
2
training units
or $20 per person
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Working Together with Primary Families
This course is Closed CaptionedDisponible en español
Explores the benefits and challenges of building a working relationship between foster and primary families, and offers strategies for developing respectful, positive communication. [Also available in Spanish]
Credit Hours: 4
Cost:
2
training units
or $20 per person
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Reducing Family Stress
This course is Closed CaptionedDisponible en español
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. [Also available in Spanish]
Credit Hours: 4
Cost:
2
training units
or $20 per person
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Understanding Behavior in Foster Children
This course is Closed CaptionedDisponible en español
Explores problematic behavior in foster children and how foster parents can better understand the purpose of a child's behavior through careful observation. [Also available in Spanish]
Credit Hours: 4
Cost:
2
training units
or $20 per person
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Lying (Advanced Parenting Workshop)
This course is Closed Captioned
This Advanced Parenting Workshop provides an in-depth study of lying. Participants work together to create an action plan for coping with lying.
Credit Hours: 6
Cost:
3
training units
or $30 per person
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Lying (2nd Edition)
This course is Closed Captioned
Common behaviors addressed in this course include getting out of trouble, gaining attention, pathological, and getting others in trouble.
Credit Hours: 2
Cost:
1
training unit
or $10 per person
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Child Development
This course is Closed CaptionedDisponible en español
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. [Also available in Spanish]
Credit Hours: 4
Cost:
2
training units
or $20 per person
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The Role of Mandated Child Abuse Reporters
This course is Closed CaptionedDisponible en español
Explores the role and challenges mandated child abuse reporters face during the reporting process and offers strategies for helping ensure subsequent investigations are not compromised. [Also available in Spanish]
Credit Hours: 2
Cost:
1
training unit
or $10 per person
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The Foster Home Investigation Process
This course is Closed Captioned
Explores the foster home investigative process, Plans of Corrective Action, and the role of foster care investigators.
Credit Hours: 2
Cost:
1
training unit
or $10 per person
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Caring for Children Who Have Been Sexually Abused
This course is Closed CaptionedDisponible en español
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. [Also available in Spanish]
Credit Hours: 4
Cost:
2
training units
or $20 per person
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The Impact of Fostering on Birth Children
This course is Closed CaptionedDisponible en español
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. [Also available in Spanish]
Credit Hours: 2
Cost:
1
training unit
or $10 per person
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The Child Welfare Team
This course is Closed CaptionedDisponible en español
Covers how the child welfare system works, purpose and goals of the system, key terms, who the child welfare team members are, as well as their roles and responsibilities, and includes a bonus section on supporting sibling relationships of children in care. [Also available in Spanish]
Credit Hours: 4
Cost:
2
training units
or $20 per person
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Parent-Child Attachment
This course is Closed CaptionedDisponible en español
This course explores the difference between healthy and unhealthy attachment, how separation and loss affect attachment, and how attachment theory applies to real life. [Also available in Spanish]
Credit Hours: 4
Cost:
2
training units
or $20 per person
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Substance-Exposed Infants
This course is Closed CaptionedDisponible en español
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. [Also available in Spanish]
Credit Hours: 4
Cost:
2
training units
or $20 per person
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Child Safety and Supervision
This course is Closed Captioned
Michael F. Quinn, M.A., uses a professional childcare 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.
Credit Hours: 2
Cost:
1
training unit
or $10 per person
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Grief & Loss in the Care System
This course is Closed CaptionedDisponible en español
Charley Joyce, LICSW, discusses grief and loss related to removal and placement of a child, and how grief and loss impacts the child, birth parents, and foster caregivers. [Also available in Spanish]
Credit Hours: 2
Cost:
1
training unit
or $10 per person
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Anger Pie
This course is Closed Captioned
Dr. Rick Delaney discusses how an understanding of the ABCs of behavior can help parents ward off angry outbursts in 5- to 10-year-old children.
Credit Hours: 2
Cost:
1
training unit
or $10 per person
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Child Abuse & Neglect
This course is Closed CaptionedDisponible en español
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. [Also available in Spanish]
Credit Hours: 4
Cost:
2
training units
or $20 per person
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House Safety
This course is Closed Captioned
This course shows how foster parents can observe safety rules for licensed or certified residential care facilities using self-inspections.
Credit Hours: 2
Cost:
1
training unit
or $10 per person
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Working with Schools
This course is Closed Captioned
Roles and responsibilities, entering a new school, working with the school staff, special education, and parent advocacy are discussed in this course.
Credit Hours: 2
Cost:
1
training unit
or $10 per person
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Working with Birth Parents: Visitation
This course is Closed Captioned
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.
Credit Hours: 2
Cost:
1
training unit
or $10 per person
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Kinship Care
This course is Closed Captioned
Viewers will learn about family feuds, allegiance to birth parents, distance and defiance with kinship family.
Credit Hours: 2
Cost:
1
training unit
or $10 per person
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Positive Parenting 1
This course is Closed Captioned
Viewers learn how to use cooperation, tracking behavior, and encouragement as positive parenting techniques.
Credit Hours: 2
Cost:
1
training unit
or $10 per person
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Positive Parenting 2
This course is Closed Captioned
Viewers learn about setting limits and using behavior contracts with the children in their care.
Credit Hours: 2
Cost:
1
training unit
or $10 per person
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Running Away
This course is Closed Captioned
Searching for roots, running from rules, running from love and intimacy, wanting to be wanted, and running to street crime.
Credit Hours: 2
Cost:
1
training unit
or $10 per person