
-Training Offerings Foster Care Training Course Catalog
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the guidance of health experts to follow social distancing protocols, all classes are currently being offered via distance learning. We will continue to monitor the recommendations of local and state authorities and healthcare experts and remain committed to ensuring the safety and health of training participants and instructors. Please note that in order to register for these free trainings you must be staff, caregiver or volunteer working directly with foster, adoptive or probation involved children, youth and their families in one of our partner counties.
Courses are sorted by Category:
To register for a course, click on the title of the course you are interested in, then click on the Register button and either submit the registration form or register on the sponsoring agency’s website or event link (i.e. Eventbrite).
Arts & Activities
Trainings offered cover the importance of art and activities for youth as well as how to design engaging and therapeutic activities.
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Using Intersectionally informed Spiritual Assessment Strategies for designing Emotional Roadmaps | System-involved youth often navigate complex emotional landscapes influenced by diverse cultural, spiritual, and personal experiences. This course equips child welfare professionals with intersectionally informed spiritual assessment strategies to create personalized emotional roadmaps that honor each youth’s unique identity and journey. | 6/20/2025 | 9:30 am – 1:30 pm | -DISTANCE LEARNING | N/A | Seneca Family of Agencies | Register |
Behavioral Strategies
These trainings address the importance of using behavioral modification techniques such as positive reinforcement to help a child change their behaviors to those that are more conducive to healthy relationships with adults and peers.
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Crisis Diffusion | This specialized training is designed for professionals who provide care and support to individuals whom exhibit challenging or potentially assaultive behavior. Participants will gain essential skills and strategies for effectively managing high-stress situations and preventing violent behavior. The course covers recognizing early signs of escalation, employing de-escalation techniques, and maintaining control through clear, assertive communication. Emphasis is placed on creating a safe environment for both the system involved youth and the caregiver while fostering mutual respect. Through interactive exercises, role-playing, and real-world case studies, participants will develop practical skills to safely navigate difficult situations, reducing the risk of conflict and ensuring the well-being of all involved. Participants will leave this […] | 6/26/2025 | 8:30 am – 11:30 am | -DISTANCE LEARNING | N/A | Redwood Community Services, Inc |
Child Development
Trainings include topics such as an overview of the stages of child development to the importance of understanding a child’s actual age versus their developmental age, and why that distinction is important in caring for children.
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Cultural Awareness
Includes trainings that cover cultural awareness, including unconscious bias, cultural humility, cultural competence and working with certain populations.
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Family Issues
Topics include how to locate potential permanent family members (Family Finding) as well as how to engage and include family members in a child’s life.
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For Caregivers
Caregiver trainings.
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Exploring Foster Care and Adoption | This training is designed to introduce prospective Resource Families to the Child Welfare System and the role of a resource parent. Participants will receive an overview of the steps to becoming a resource parent with Alternative Family Services. | 6/19/2025 | 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm | -DISTANCE LEARNING | N/A | Alternative Family Services (AFS) | Register |
Identifying and Reporting Abuse of Children | This training will cover who are Mandated Reporters and their responsibilities to report child abuse, types of child abuse and neglect, accidental vs purposeful abuse and what, when and where to report abuse. Protection for reporters and penalties for failure to report. This training is intended for those that work with children and youth within the child welfare system or are at-risk of entering. This includes child welfare workers, resource parents, youth sports coaches, youth mentors, teachers and volunteers/staff working with this population. Register Here | 6/27/2025 | 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm | -DISTANCE LEARNING | N/A | Redwood Community Services, Inc | |
Resource Family Pre Approval Training – Session 3&4 | This training is designed to prepare resource families to work with youth in the foster care system. Participants will receive a better understanding of the foster care system structure and explore how to provide a well-planned, safe, and secure environment designed to meet children’s individual and unique needs, and how to create an environment that promotes children’s social emotional, cognitive, and physical development. Participants will continue to review; Interim Licensing Standard, Child Growth and Development, Medication Guidelines, Discipline, Working with Biological Families and understanding the Effects of Trauma. | 6/21/2025 | 10:00 am – 4:00 pm | -DISTANCE LEARNING | N/A | Alternative Family Services (AFS) | Register |
Health & Safety
Includes trainings on best practices for insuring children are healthy, safe and receiving the medical care they need.
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On Demand
On Demand indicates online prerecorded classes that are available on demand any time.
No planned courses at this time
Other
These trainings include topics that are not listed in any other categories.
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Using Financial Social Work Techniques to Create Lasting Financial Behavioral Change For Transition Age Youth | A Trauma-Informed, Best Practice Approach to Developing Financial Wellness and Creating Lasting Financial Change for Former Foster Youth •Poverty is a key indicator of involvement in the child welfare system. Most families get reported to the foster care system due to financial issues. •Former foster youth struggle to build savings and accumulate long-term assets, essential to promoting stability and weathering financial hard times. •When individuals struggle with financial difficulties, it can damage their self-esteem, make them feel worthless, angry, ashamed, and negatively impact their family relationships •Financial Social Work goes beyond budgeting and managing debt to support financial behavioral change, assesses the individual’s relationship with money and self, and gets […] | 6/27/2025 | 10:00 am – 2:30 pm | Alameda | N/A | First Place for Youth | Register |
Trauma Impact
These trainings address the impact that trauma has had on the lives of children in our care and how we can help them begin to heal from the trauma they’ve experienced.
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