Foster Care Training

The goal is to focus on teaching a wide variety of well-integrated, practical techniques for self-care and mutual support. They include on how mind-body, mindfulness, and its techniques – meditation, guided imagery, biofeedback, autogenic training, exercise and yoga – affect physical, mental, and emotional functioning and wellbeing, as well as a supportive experience of these techniques. This emphasizes each person’s strengths, and their capacity to learn to use skills that make it possible for them to stand and help themselves. Once participants learn to use these skills, they can model them for their youth in care, as well as teach the skills that resonate best with the youth.