Foster Care Training

Parenting can be very difficult, especially when a child may have emotional challenges. Caregivers/Parents often look for skills and guidance that will help them safely manage their child’s intense emotions and behaviors when they arise. Caregivers are encouraged to come to this presentation to learn some basic strategies and skills to use to parent more effectively, less emotionally, and more strategically. Leave this presentation with several specific skills to use immediately to try to help your child.

This presentation will be taught by author Pat Harvey, a clinical social worker who is a parent coach with understanding about the life experiences of parents whose children have emotional problems and who has taught parents how to navigate through difficult and painful situations with a combination of understanding, sensitivity, acceptance, and limit setting while also taking care of their own emotional needs.