Foster Care Training

Small, thoughtful acts can spark profound healing and create opportunities for connection, especially for system-involved youth navigating complex emotions and transitions. This course explores how child welfare professionals can use intentional, small gestures as a tool to foster resilience, promote trust, and create moments of meaning and joy for youth in their care. Participants will learn the significance of kindness as a meaning-making practice, exploring how seemingly minor actions—like leaving a note of encouragement, sharing a symbolic object, or offering a small celebratory gesture—can have lasting emotional impacts. The training emphasizes the developmental and cultural contexts of kindness, offering insights into how these practices can be personalized to resonate with the youth’s unique identity and lived experience. Through case examples, reflective exercises, and actionable planning, this course empowers professionals to integrate random acts of kindness into their practice with intention and thoughtfulness.