Foster Care Training Schedule

December 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.

PS Class 1: Orientation to Foster Care, Kinship Care, and Adoption

Pre-Service Class 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.

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

Each attendee must register individually.

PS Class 2: The Child Protection Team

Pre-service class 2 discusses the history and goals of foster care, kinship care, and adoption and examines the role of foster and kinship caregivers and adoptive parents within the system. Emphasis is placed on the primary care team: the child, the foster or kinship caregiver or adoptive parent, the primary parent, and the agency caseworker. Participants become aware of strategies to use teams effectively to serve children and families.

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

Each attendee must register individually.

PS Class 3&4: Child Development and Trauma & Its Effects

** Please note that classes 3 and 4 have been combined into one 3 hour class.

Pre-service class 3 & 4 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. This class helps participants understand how childhood trauma can effect development, including brain development, as well as emotions and behavior.

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

Each attendee must register individually.

PS Class 5: Child Sexual Abuse

Pre-service class 5 provides an overview of child sexual abuse and is designed to help prospective caregivers and adoptive parents understand basic facts about child sexual abuse, recognize potential indicators of sexual abuse, and take beginning steps to making their homes safe environments for children who have been sexually abused.

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

Each attendee must register individually.

PS Class 6: Minimizing the Trauma of Placement

Pre-service class 6 addresses strategies caregivers and adoptive parents can use to help the child feel safe and accepted in their home and community. The importance of gathering background information and maintaining connections is stressed.

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

Each attendee must register individually.

PS Class 7: Transcending Differences in Placement

Pre-service class 7 helps participants gain awareness of their own diversity in order to better understand the diversity of each child that comes into their home. Participants also consider ways they can prepare their home and community to welcome and provide a safe and nurturing environment for a child.

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

Each attendee must register individually.

PS Class 8: Helping the Child Manage Emotions and Behaviors

Pre-service class 8 introduces foster and kinship caregivers and adoptive parents to strategies they can use to assist children in learning to manage their emotions and control their behaviors.

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

Each attendee must register individually.

PS Class 9: Understanding Primary Families

Pre-service class 9 presents a rationale for involvement of foster and kinship caregivers and adoptive parents in promoting connections to primary family members, particularly primary parents and siblings. The training encourages a non-judgmental approach to the caregiver’s or parent’s work with primary families to promote reunification.

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

Each attendee must register individually.

PS Class 10: The Effects of Caregiving on the Caregiver Family

Pre-service class 10 examines 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. Video is required.

Each attendee must register individually.

PS Class 11: Long-Term Separation

Pre-service class 11 describes the emotions children experience when reunification efforts with the birth parents fail. Feelings of adopted children and children in long-term substitute care placements are explored. Participants will learn about typical triggers of long-term grief.

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

Each attendee must register individually.

PS Class 12: Post Adoption Issues for Families

Pre-service class 12 describes adoption dynamics impacting families. Openness in adoption is addressed as well as stages of adjustment for new adoptive families. Post adoption services including subsidy are also discussed in this module.

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

Each attendee must register individually.

Super Saturday Training Event!

Super Saturday!
A virtual foster parent training event focused on Natural Strength Parenting

Natural Strength Parenting teaches you to be intentional, encourages you to focus on your family’s innate strengths, and helps reduce stress through mindfulness.

All attendees welcome – training certificates provided as needed after event.

Door prizes awarded throughout the day!

Please reserve one ticket per attendee regardless of how many sessions you will attend.  Registered attendees will be able to select individual sessions at a later date.  Video required, same-household attendees may attend on one or multiple devices.

Questions? Contact Candace Caudill, fctraining@beechacres.org, for more information.

Event Schedule:

Sessions indicated with (*) will only be available to currently licensed BAPC foster parents.

9am-10am:

Welcome from BAPC President & CEO, Laura Mitchell

Natural Strength Parenting Starter Kit

10am – 12pm:

Crisis Intervention & De-escalation (Topic 1)*

Rules & Policies

Trauma Resolution: Healing Trauma

Identifying and Using Your Child’s Strengths

12pm-1pm: Lunch Break

1pm-2pm:

Ignite Talk: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

2pm-4pm:

Crisis Intervention & De-escalation (Topic 1)*

Independent Living

Mindfulness

Self-Care

Placement Kits

4pm-5pm:

Reunification Panel

Closing Remarks