Foster Care Training

Grief is messy. It is loud one day and silent the next. For system involved youth, it can look like anger, shutdown, or just trying to survive the first week, the first eight weeks, the first year of everything that feels broken. This training is not about closing chapters or fixing feelings. It is about presence, about staying in the room with what hurts, and naming the kinds of grief no one usually talks about, like ambiguous loss and disenfranchised grief. We will also explore how personalized activities and rituals help kids and families grab hold of identity and meaning when everything else has been shaken. Participants will learn practical ways to talk with different age groups, invite families to create their own activities and rituals, and recognize when grief needs space more than solutions. The focus is on real strategies professionals can use right away, without trying to make grief tidy or short.