Foster Care Training

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.

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 […]

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.

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

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.

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 […]