Events

Preservice Module 5: Discipline Foundations & Permanency

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.

Due to a scheduling conflict, Module 6 will not be until August 26, 2024. 

Ongoing Training: Independent Living

Independent Living

This class is for Ongoing Training and is only open to licensed foster parents.

This ongoing training aimed to provide foster parents the necessary tools to understand, teach, and encourage independent living skills. All foster parents are welcome to attend. If you are licensed to care for children who are 14 or older, this is a required training to be completed once per licensure period.

 

**Training is currently occurring in a virtual environment**

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

August: Foster Parent Support Meeting – Back to School Challenges

 

This training is an elective credit and the topic of discussion will change monthly.  It is a chance for Beech Acres families to gather together, discuss relevant topics, and encourage each other.  (open only to Beech Acres affiliated attendees)

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

Preservice Module 6: Roles and Responsibilities & Diversity

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.

 

Ongoing Foster Parent Elective Training: Understanding Trauma Behaviors

Understanding Trauma Behaviors 

Ongoing Elective Training for Licensed Foster Parents

Join us for a presentation by Brian D. Lowery, MPA, LSW

[more info about this session will be added soon]

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

Presenter bio: Brian D. Lowery, MPA, LSW has been a child welfare trainer for the past 30 years and is the recipient of the “Rising Star Award”  from the Ohio Child Welfare Training Program (OCWTP) and the “Trainer of the Year Award”  from the Northeast Region of the OCWTP.  He recently received the prestigious Linda Pope award for excellence in training in Ohio. Brian has served as the Director of In-Service Training for the largest private child caring agency in Ohio and the Director of Child Care at a Northeast Ohio residential treatment center. He is a Qualified Professional Administrator with the Ohio Department of Mental Health and a State Licensed Social Worker. Brian currently serves as a consultant with contract agencies of the  Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services (ADAMHS) Board  and the  Developmental Disabilities Board of Cuyahoga County.  He  is a sought after consultant and trainer with child welfare organizations throughout the Midwest.

Preservice Module 7: Partnering with Primary Families & Maintaining Connections

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 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.

 

Clinton Kinship/Krissi Gale (C)

Krissi Gale

2nd Monday /6-7 (only Sept-May)Headstart on Wilmington

Dorthy Campbell

Y -in house

Full meal kids and adults

N

Clinton County Head Start
789 N. Nelson Avenue
Wilmington, Ohio, 45177

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.

Ongoing Training: Lunch & Learn: TBD

In-Person Lunch & Learn

This class is for Ongoing Training and is only open to licensed foster parents.

Join us for this in person ongoing training session – for September, topic is to be determined Lunch will be provided so be sure to register in advance. This is a great opportunity learn, receive training credit hours, and to network!

This training is currently scheduled to take place, in person, at the Beech Acres office – 615 Elsinore Place, Cincinnati, OH 45202.

Please reserve one ticket per attendee.

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

In-Person Ongoing Training: The Holocaust & Humanity Center

***details to come****

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 will be in person at the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center inside the Cincinnati Museum Center. (1301 Western Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45203)**

  If registration has closed or tickets are otherwise unavailable, please contact us at FCTraining@BeechAcres.org for more information.

 

Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center
1301 Western Avenue
Cincinnati, OH, 45203