Events

Foster Parent Training: CPR & First Aid

This class is for Ongoing Training and is only open to licensed foster parents with Beech Acres, Beech Acres staff, and families in the process of getting licensed with Beech Acres. 

All Foster Parents are required to attend a CPR and First Aid Training course for Adult, Child, and Infant CPR, First Aid, and AED. This training is only open to currently licensed foster parents and class size is limited. After your registration is processed and accepted, you will receive an email with additional meeting instructions. Please register for each attendee. If for some reason you are unable to attend after registering, please notify us immediately at fctraining@beechacres.org so that we can offer that spot to the next attendee.

**This training is scheduled for in person at our location: 615 Elsinore Place, Suite 500, Cincinnati, OH 45202. 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: Youth Ombudsman | Foster Youth Bill of Rights

Presented by Jenny Stotts, Ohio’s Youth Ombudsman

Class will held via Zoom

Join Ohio’s Youth Ombudsman Jenny Stotts for an engaging session covering the Foster Youth Bill of Rights and how the Youth and Family Ombudsmen Office helps youth in foster care, kinship care, and congregate care settings. Participants will leave the session with a firm understanding of foster youth rights and how to navigate conversations with youth and their adult supporters to ensure youth rights are protected. Participants will understand the role of the Youth Ombudsman and how to support youth who need to reach out to the office for assistance. Participants will learn about real-life examples and walk away with practical strategies to support their everyday work.

Covers the Resource Readiness topics: Legal & Ethical Issues for Caregivers and Community Health & Social Services Available to Children & Their Foster Families

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

Preservice Module 1: Orientation & the Effects of Caregiving

**This training is currently scheduled as a virtual Live Synchronous Webinar. Video is required.**

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 a virtual Live Synchronous Webinar. Times, dates, and location are subject to change.  Video is required. If registration has closed or tickets are otherwise unavailable, please contact us at FCTraining@BeechAcres.org for more information.**

Preservice Module 2: Child & Adolescent Development

**This training is currently scheduled as a virtual Live Synchronous Webinar. Video is required.**

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.

**This training is currently scheduled as a virtual Live Synchronous Webinar. Times, dates, and location are subject to change.  Video is required. If registration has closed or tickets are otherwise unavailable, please contact us at FCTraining@BeechAcres.org for more information.**

Preservice Module 3: Basics of Child Placement & Medication Management

**This training is currently scheduled as a virtual Live Synchronous Webinar. Video is required.**

Preservice Module 3 reviews the referral, placement, and matching process. We will also discuss what an informed decision is and the agency’s involvement post-placement. The last section of the training will review medication management.

**This training is currently scheduled as a virtual Live Synchronous Webinar. Times, dates, and location are subject to change.  Video is required. If registration has closed or tickets are otherwise unavailable, please contact us at FCTraining@BeechAcres.org for more information.

Each attendee must register individually.

November 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.

Preservice Module 4: Trauma & Its Impact

This training is currently set to take place as a virtual webinar.

This class helps participants understand trauma and toxic stress. Participants will also learn how the brain adapts based on experience and it’s impact on attachment and development. Lastly, participants will identify the needs to learn new skills and knowledge when providing care to a child who has experienced trauma.

**This training is currently scheduled as a virtual Live Synchronous Webinar. Times, dates, and location are subject to change.  Video is required. If registration has closed or tickets are otherwise unavailable, please contact us at FCTraining@BeechAcres.org for more information.

Each attendee must register individually.

Preservice Module 5: Discipline Foundations & Permanency

**This training is currently scheduled as a virtual Live Synchronous Webinar. Video is required.**

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 a virtual Live Synchronous Webinar. Times, dates, and location are subject to change.  Video is required. If registration has closed or tickets are otherwise unavailable, please contact us at FCTraining@BeechAcres.org for more information.

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.

Limited Childcare provided by our friends at Parkside Christian Church.

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 Parkside Christian Church in Anderson Township (near the old Beech Acres Campus!) 

Parkside Christian Church
6986 Salem Road
Cincinnati, OH, 45230

Preservice Module 6: Roles and Responsibilities & Diversity

**This training is currently scheduled as a virtual Live Synchronous Webinar. Video is required.**

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 a virtual Live Synchronous Webinar. Video is required.