course »Parenting Foster & Adoptive Children with Challenging Behaviors

in: Other
Date: 10/25/2016, 9:00 am—4:00 pm
County: Alameda County
Location: Oakland
Sponsor: Alternative Family Services (AFS)
Phone: (916) 254-5200
Its is very common for foster and adoptive parents to start with the best of intentions, to later wonder, when severe behaviors start to arise, if it was the thing to do or if there is something wrong with their parenting. This Workshop will focus primarily on a positive parent-child relationship and how to shift from fear based parenting to love-based parenting. Objectives:
  1. Participants will review and be able to identify risk factors on how children react to trauma/Understand trauma and brain development.
  2. Participants will better understand how the brain develops in response to experiences with caregivers. Identify how caregivers can support brain development in traumatized youth.
  3. Participants will learn practical techniques to use when working with youth which may have experienced some sort of traumatic event in their life.
Class Location: Lake Merritt United Methodist Church, 1330 Lakeshore Avenue, Oakland, CA 94606.

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