Explores healthy sexual development of children and teens in care and how parents can support youth’s sexual health and wellness.
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Explores autism, how to identify autism in children, and how to support children with autism and encourage their strengths and abilities.
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
El curso trata la educación pos preparatoria y cómo los padres de apoyo pueden ayudar a jóvenes del sexto al décimo grado a prepararse para ella. (Para los padres en California, este curso equivale al programa Convertir Sueños en Títulos, Curso de Educación 1). [Spanish version of "Preparing Teens for Postsecondary Education"]
4 horas de crédito, $20.00 por persona
Este curso explora los trastornos del espectro alcohólico fetal, cómo identificarlos, y cómo los padres pueden apoyar a los niños que se vieron expuestos al alcohol en su estado prenatal. [Spanish version of "Could It Be FASD?"]
2 horas de crédito, $10.00 por persona
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.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
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.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Charley Joyce, trabajador social licenciado, trata el duelo y la pérdida sufridos por un menor que es retirado de su familia y asignado a un hogar temporal, y cómo la situación también afecta a los padres biológicos y a los proveedores de cuidados. [Spanish version of "Grief & Loss in the Care System"]
2 horas de crédito, $10.00 por persona
Aquí exploramos las intensificaciones, sus causas, y estrategias para aplacamientos. Antes de tomar este curso, se recomienda encarecidamente que los participantes primero tomen
Crianza sensible al trauma. [Spanish version of "Escalating Behavior Unwrapped"]
2 horas de crédito, $10.00 por persona
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]
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Explora la función de los denunciantes obligatorios y los desafíos a los que se enfrentan en el proceso de efectuar una denuncia, y ofrece estrategias para garantizar que posteriores investigaciones no se vean comprometidas. [Spanish version of "The Role of Mandated Child Abuse Reporters"]
2 horas de crédito, $10.00 por persona
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]
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
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]
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Explora la explotación sexual de menores, en qué consiste, y cómo los padres pueden reconocer señales de que el menor esté siendo explotado sexualmente. [Spanish version of "Understanding Sex Trafficking"]
2 horas de crédito, $10.00 por persona
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]
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Explora las condiciones más comunes de la salud mental en menores en cuidado temporal, cómo los trastornos se diagnostican y se tratan, y cómo los padres pueden trabajar con los profesionales en favor de la salud mental de sus niños. [Spanish version of "Children Entering Care: Mental Health Issues"]
2 horas de crédito, $10.00 por persona
Explora problemas de salud física comunes en niños que entran en cuidado temporal, y cómo los padres pueden colaborar con los profesionales que les proveen atención médica. [Spanish version of "Children Entering Care: Physical Health Issues"]
2 horas de crédito, $10.00 por persona
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.
6 credit hours, $30.00 per person
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]
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
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]
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Apego entre padres e hijos, Entender el comportamiento de niños en crianza temporal y El cuidado de niños que han sido sexualmente abusados forman parte de este grupo.
12 horas de crédito, $20.00 por persona
El esfuerzo conjunto con las familias primarias, Cuestiones culturales en la crianza y Crianza sensible al trauma forman parte de este grupo.
8 horas de crédito, $10.00 por persona
Reducir el estrés familiar, El efecto de la crianza temporal en los hijos biológicos y Del cuidado temporal a la adopción forman parte de este grupo.
10 horas de crédito, $10.00 por persona
Explora cómo ofrecer normalidad a los menores en cuidado temporal usando las normas razonables y prudentes de crianza. [Spanish version of "Supporting Normalcy"]
2 horas de crédito, $10.00 por persona
Examina cómo los padres pueden apoyar las diferencias culturales del niño, incluyendo las relativas a costumbres, creencias, orientación sexual e identidad de género, así como por qué es importante para un crecimiento y desarrollo general saludables. [Spanish version of "Cultural Issues in Parenting"]
4 horas de crédito, $20.00 por persona
Explora cómo los padres pueden cuidar de un niño y al mismo tiempo ser sensibles a sus experiencias pasadas. [Spanish version of "Trauma-Informed Parenting"]
2 horas de crédito, $10.00 por persona
El equipo de bienestar del menor, Maltrato y negligencia infantil, Apego entre padres e hijos y Entender el comportamiento de niños en crianza temporal forman parte de este grupo.
16 horas de crédito, $30.00 por persona
Desarrollo del niño, Cuestiones culturales en la crianza, y El esfuerzo conjunto con las familias primarias forman parte de este grupo.
12 horas de crédito, $20.00 por persona
El cuidado de niños que han sido sexualmente abusados, Reducir el estrés familiar y Del cuidado temporal a la adopción forman parte de este grupo.
12 horas de crédito, $20.00 por persona
El Dr. Robert Nickel y Susan Edelstein, tratan los desafíos a los que se enfrentan los padres que proveen cuidados a bebés expuestos a sustancias, incluyendo los efectos de drogas legales e ilegales, múltiples casos de abuso de drogas, el trabajo con el equipo de profesionales asignado al bebé, y estrategias exitosas en la crianza. [Spanish version of "Substance-Exposed Infants"]
4 horas de crédito, $20.00 por persona
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.
6 credit hours, $30.00 per person
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]
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Explores how to provide normalcy for youth in care using the reasonable and prudent parenting standards. [Also available in Spanish]
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Explores how parents can care for children who were prenatally exposed to substances or drug endangered.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
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]
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
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]
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Explores the range of openness in adoption, the birth connection, and birth relationships.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
El equipo de bienestar del menor, Maltrato y negligencia infantil y Desarrollo del niño forman parte de este grupo.
12 horas de crédito, $30.00 por persona
Examines the spectrum of cooperation and noncompliance, from fearful cooperation to defiance, including the zone in the middle of the spectrum called self-assertion.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Explores how parents can care for a child while being sensitive to his or her past traumatic experiences. [Also available in Spanish]
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Explora el desarrollo típico de un niño, los campos y las etapas de desarrollo, el temperamento y la compatibilidad, y los efectos del abuso y la negligencia en la salud y la conducta del menor. [Spanish version of "Child Development"]
4 horas de crédito, $20.00 por persona
Analiza el proceso y los desafíos de pasar del cuidado temporal a la adopción y ofrece sugerencias y consejos para ayudar a los miembros de la familia adoptiva en esa transición. [Spanish version of "Foster Care to Adoption"]
4 horas de crédito, $20.00 por persona
Analiza los desafíos a que se enfrentan las familias temporales en la pre-asignación, durante la asignación y después de la asignación, y ofrece sugerencias y consejos para ayudar a los hijos biológicos de la familia temporal durante esas etapas. [Spanish version of "The Impact of Fostering on Birth Children"]
2 horas de crédito, $10.00 por persona
Un curso de pre-servicio diseñado para personas interesadas en proveer cuidado temporal, centrado en el maltrato infantil. Aprenda las características, los síntomas y las normas de denuncias de maltrato infantil. Advertencia: contiene imágenes gráficas. [Spanish version of "Child Abuse & Neglect"]
4 horas de crédito, $20.00 por persona
Cubre la diferencia entre el apego saludable y el adverso, cómo la separación y la pérdida afectan el apego, y cómo la teoría del apego se aplica a la vida real. [Spanish version of "Parent-Child Attachment"].
4 horas de crédito, $20.00 por persona
Explora los beneficios y desafíos de establecer una relación de colaboración entre la familia temporal y la primaria, y ofrece estrategias para crear una comunicación respetuosa y positiva. [Spanish version of "Working Together with Primary Families"]
4 horas de crédito, $20.00 por persona
Analiza los efectos emocionales y de conducta del abuso sexual infantil en menores en crianza temporal y ofrece estrategias para ayudar a superar los retos a que se enfrentan los padres temporales. [Spanish version of "Caring for Children Who Have Been Sexually Abused"]
4 horas de crédito, $20.00 por persona
Cubre cómo funciona el sistema de bienestar del menor, propósitos y objetivos del sistema, términos clave, y quiénes son los miembros del equipo, así como sus funciones y responsabilidades, e incluye una sección adicional que trata sobre la forma de apoyar las relaciones entre hermanos de menores en cuidado temporal. [Spanish version of "The Child Welfare Team"]
4 horas de crédito, $20.00 por persona
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.
6 credit hours, $30.00 per person
Covers fire play and fire setting and the differences between the two behaviors.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Analiza diferentes aspectos de agregar un niño a la familia y ofrece sugerencias de cómo preservar la estructura familiar y reducir el estrés causado por el cambio de dinámicas. [Spanish version of "Reducing Family Stress"]
4 horas de crédito, $20.00 por persona
Analiza comportamientos problemáticos en niños en crianza temporal y cómo los padres pueden entender el propósito de la conducta del niño mediante una observación detenida. [Spanish version of "Understanding Behavior in Foster Children"]
4 horas de crédito, $20.00 por persona
This Advanced Parenting Workshop introduces the spectrum of cooperation and noncompliance, then explores how trauma can affect a child’s ability to cooperate.
6 credit hours, $30.00 per person
Explores common reasons for taking things, including experimentation, intellectual disability, trauma history, and social or psychiatric problems.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
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.
6 credit hours, $30.00 per person
Explores how resource parent couples can resolve conflict and promote intimacy in the family through improved communication.
8 credit hours, $40.00 per person
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.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
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]
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
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.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
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]
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
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]
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
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]
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Explores the foster home investigative process, Plans of Corrective Action, and the role of foster care investigators.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
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]
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
This course shows how foster parents can observe safety rules for licensed or certified residential care facilities using self-inspections.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
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]
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Viewers will learn about family feuds, allegiance to birth parents, distance and defiance with kinship family.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Common behaviors addressed in this course include getting out of trouble, gaining attention, pathological, and getting others in trouble.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
This Advanced Parenting Workshop provides an in-depth study of lying. Participants work together to create an action plan for coping with lying.
6 credit hours, $30.00 per person
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]
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Viewers learn how to use cooperation, tracking behavior, and encouragement as positive parenting techniques.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Viewers learn about setting limits and using behavior contracts with the children in their care.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
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]
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Searching for roots, running from rules, running from love and intimacy, wanting to be wanted, and running to street crime.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
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.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
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]
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
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.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
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]
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
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]
4 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Roles and responsibilities, entering a new school, working with the school staff, special education, and parent advocacy are discussed in this course.
2 credit hours, $10.00 per person
The Child Welfare Team, Child Abuse & Neglect, Parent-Child Attachment and Understanding Behavior in Foster Children are included in Cluster 1.
16 credit hours, $30.00 per person
Child Development, Cultural Issues in Parenting, and Working Together with Primary Families are included in Cluster 2.
12 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Caring for Children Who Have Been Sexually Abused, Reducing Family Stress, and Foster Care to Adoption are included in Cluster 3.
12 credit hours, $20.00 per person
The Child Welfare Team, Child Abuse & Neglect, and Child Development are included in Cluster 1.
12 credit hours, $30.00 per person
Parent-Child Attachment, Understanding Behavior in Foster Children, and Caring for Children Who Have Been Sexually Abused are included in Cluster 2.
12 credit hours, $20.00 per person
Working Together with Primary Families, Cultural Issues in Parenting, and Trauma-Informed Parenting are included in Cluster 3.
8 credit hours, $10.00 per person
Reducing Family Stress, The Impact of Fostering on Birth Children, and Foster Care to Adoption are included in Cluster 4.
10 credit hours, $10.00 per person
