Events

Preservice Module 5: Discipline Foundations & Permanency (IN PERSON)

**This training is currently scheduled as an IN PERSON training at our main office, 615 Elsinore Place, Cincinnati, OH**

This class helps participants identify the knowledge and skills needed to effectively use discipline strategies, identify components of an effective approach to discipline, and identify three elements of an effective discipline strategy. We will also explore de-escalation strategies. The latter part of the training will review legal permanency options for the child and help to describe your role in supporting permanency goals.

**This training is currently scheduled as an IN PERSON training. Times, dates, and location are subject to change.  If registration has closed or tickets are otherwise unavailable, please contact us at FCTraining@BeechAcres.org for more information.**

 

Beech Acres Parenting Center
615 Elsinore Place, Suite 500
Cincinnati, OH, 45202

Preservice Module 6: Roles and Responsibilities & Diversity (IN PERSON)

**This training is currently scheduled as an IN PERSON training at our main office, 615 Elsinore Place, Cincinnati, OH**

What are the roles and responsibilities of a foster care parent? In this module we will review those roles and responsibilities. Participants will also learn about diversity in the following ways: identify humility and competence as they relate to diversity, discuss issues of disproportionality and disparity within the child protection system, review implicit bias, identify strategies to provide an inclusive and equitable home.

**This training is currently scheduled as an IN PERSON training. Times, dates, and location are subject to change.  If registration has closed or tickets are otherwise unavailable, please contact us at FCTraining@BeechAcres.org for more information.**

 

Beech Acres Parenting Center
615 Elsinore Place, Suite 500
Cincinnati, OH, 45202

Foster Parent Ongoing Training — Instant Family Screening & Discussion

Location: RJ Cinema Eastgate (next to Jungle Jim’s East)

4450 Eastgate South Dr, Cincinnati, OH 45245

Time: 11am-2:30pm on Saturday, August 23rd.

Part training and part film screening, with popcorn provided free by the theater!

 

Instant Family is a dramedy based on writer-director Sean Anders and his wife’s real-life experiences fostering and eventually adopting three young siblings. The couple in the film (Mark Wahlberg, Rose Byrne) hit pretty much every road bump on the way to becoming a forever family.  Ultimately the movie champions unconditional familial love and perseverance and argues that kids coming from extremely difficult circumstances are still kids who deserve love and a chance to flourish. (from Common Sense Media)

Stick around after the film for a discussion with other foster parents and your Beech Acres Foster Care Team.

Although this event/training is open to the whole family, be advised that the film is rated PG-13 due to some foul language and references some heavy issues (drug use, sexual abuse, physical abuse) that may be triggering for some.

For those of you in your first two year training cycle, this class will fulfill the requirements for the Resource Readiness topics: legal & ethical issues, culture and diversity, self-regulation, and managing placement transitions.

Please email tchapman@beechacres.org or khomsey@beechacres.org if you have any questions about this event or the movie’s content.

RJ Cinema
4450 Eastgate Drive South
Cincinnati, OH, 45245

Preservice Module 7: Partnering with Primary Families & Maintaining Connections (in person)

**This training is currently scheduled as an IN PERSON training at our main office, 615 Elsinore Place, Cincinnati, OH**

During this module participants will describe the benefits of partnering with the primary parent, identify strategies to be an effective partner, and summarize the importance of relationships to children in care.. Participants will also learn to identify the C.A.R.E. guide as Ohio’s recommended best practice in co-parenting and reunification efforts. Lastly, we will discuss how to support relationships with other important people, including siblings.

**This training is currently scheduled as an IN PERSON training. Times, dates, and location are subject to change.  If registration has closed or tickets are otherwise unavailable, please contact us at FCTraining@BeechAcres.org for more information.**

 

Beech Acres Parenting Center
615 Elsinore Place, Suite 500
Cincinnati, OH, 45202

Ongoing Foster Parent Training: Relational Parenting Concepts – In Person

 

Beech Acres Parenting Center
615 Elsinore Place, Suite 500
Cincinnati, OH, 45202

September Review for Alternative Caregivers and Respite Providers

This one hour class provides an overview of foster care rules and polices for individuals becoming approved as alternative caregivers or respite providers to care for foster children.

** Please note that this class is not eligible for ongoing training credit and is only approved for Alternative Care and Respite Providers.

**This training will occur as a virtual Live Synchronous Webinar. Video is REQUIRED.

Foster Parent Support Group: Together in Fostering 

Join us in September to share ideas and information with your foster parent cohorts. 

 

Foster Parent Support Group: Together in Fostering

Looking for a space to connect with other foster parents who truly understand the journey? Support Group is a space to connect, share, and grow together. In this series, you’ll help shape the conversation by choosing the topics for three of our sessions. Come as you are, and let’s support each other through the journey of fostering.

This class will be conducted over three sessions: Sept 10th, October 8th, and November 12th. Please register separately for each session.

*** Limited childcare is available. Please email FCTraining@BeechAcres.org for childcare information. We will not be able to accommodate any children who have not been singed up in advance. ***

Please reserve one ticket per attendee. This meeting will be in person at a location to be named soon!!!

Beech Acres Parenting Center
615 Elsinore Place, Suite 500
Cincinnati, OH, 45202

Preservice Module 1: Orientation & the Effects of Caregiving (IN PERSON)

**This training is currently scheduled as an IN PERSON training at our main office, 615 Elsinore Place, Cincinnati, OH**

Module 1 provides an overview of the child welfare system and examines the differences between foster care, adoption, and kinship care. Participants receive information about the needs of waiting children as well as the process of becoming a foster or kinship caregiver or adoptive parent. We will also examine the impact of foster care, kinship care, and adoption on individual members of the caregiving family as well as the impact on their relationships with one another. Participants are introduced to effective coping strategies to prevent against burnout and secondary traumatic stress.

**This training is currently scheduled as an IN PERSON training. Times, dates, and location are subject to change.  If registration has closed or tickets are otherwise unavailable, please contact us at FCTraining@BeechAcres.org for more information.**

 

Beech Acres Parenting Center
615 Elsinore Place, Suite 500
Cincinnati, OH, 45202

Preservice Module 2: Child & Adolescent Development – IN PERSON

**This training is currently scheduled as an IN PERSON training at our main office, 615 Elsinore Place, Cincinnati, OH**

Module 2 introduces the core concepts of early childhood development. Participants receive an overview of brain development and gain an awareness of the importance of attachment, self-regulation, and initiative to child development. Factors that enhance development are also addressed. We will also review the developmental changes that happen during adolescence and the foster parent’s role in preparing the youth for independent living.

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**This training is currently scheduled as an IN PERSON training. Times, dates, and location are subject to change.  If registration has closed or tickets are otherwise unavailable, please contact us at FCTraining@BeechAcres.org for more information.**

 

Beech Acres Parenting Center
615 Elsinore Place, Suite 500
Cincinnati, OH, 45202

Ongoing Foster Parent Training: Educational Advocacy (virtual)

 

Presented by Sarah Flohre from Cincinnati Legal Aid Society

Class will held via Zoom

The goal of this training is to: educate participants on the nuances of education law, the rights of children to appropriate educational services and the Child Find provision of the Individuals with Disabilities Act. Participants will also be better prepared to assist children facing disciplinary action in school. Finally, participants will be more aware of barriers to enrollment for children with special needs and how to overcome those barriers.

Covers the Resource Readiness topic: Educational Advocacy 

Please reserve one ticket per attendee. Video required for training credit. Same-household attendees may attend on one or multiple devices.