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This video provides an overview of the California Family Urgent Response Service (FURS). This new resource is a 24/7/365 statewide hotline on which callers receive trauma-informed, neutral support about any issue affecting their placement stability or safety. The video covers how the FURS system was legislated, what it offers, how services will be documented, and how to find out more.
1.0 hour
Youth transitioning out of foster care often come out at a disadvantage. The norm they had grown accustom to where supportive adults fulfill specific needs typically comes to an end when they leave foster care. However, that's when they actually need more supportive people and this training addresses the need. This training is designed to help caretakers have the conversations needed to discover the supports youth will have when they leave care.
1.5 hours
This training addresses questions many foster parents have about caring for ethnic hair types. The training interviews two barbers on hair care routines, needs, and how to maintain the hair of foster youth. Many foster parents have questions and want to hear it from the experts.
0.5 hours
A collection of trainings from the 2021 QPI National Conference
This session will define trauma and its effects on children and families. You will learn how parenting styles and behaviors from one generation influence the parentings and behaviors of the next generation. The session also discusses brain-functioning, common trauma triggers and responses we see in children and adults as well as the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study, protective factors and attachment styles.
1.5 hours
Exploration of the Ecological Model as an effective way of understanding family dynamics and individual behavior within larger systems and communities. This presentation includes information specific to children and youth in foster care.
0.5 hour
Children from hard places manifest the trauma they have experienced in many different ways. Caregivers report the child in their care acting out in ways such as running away, lying, stealing, and arguing but also with children who shut down, become isolated, and stop communicating. Despite the services and trainings available to support families, caregivers often report they continue to feel unprepared and not provided with adequate tools to support children who display significant intensity of behaviors in their home display. This panel will provide a brief overview of recent media events highlighting caregiver’s responses to the behaviors of the children in their homes and engage participants in a discussion in approaches to assist in the moment. The panel will be interactive, providing a significant question and answer segment as well.
1.5 hours
Esta capacitación le ayudará a aprender cómo mantener a su hijo viajando de manera segura en su vehículo. Esta capacitación cubre cómo seleccionar un asiento de seguridad para niños apropiado, explica las diferencias entre la posición orientada hacia atrás y hacia adelante, analiza las consideraciones sobre dónde se puede colocar el asiento en su vehículo, cómo instalar los asientos para el automóvil y cómo sujetar correctamente a los niños en el asiento para el automóvil. . Se demuestra y corrige el uso indebido de los asientos de seguridad para niños, y se abordan preguntas comunes sobre la seguridad de los niños pasajeros.
1.0 hour
This training covers the duties and responsibilities of case workers and caregivers regarding sexual and reproductive health care for youth in foster care in California. These duties and responsibilities include providing information about rights and confidentiality, offering access to information about sexual health care and other topics, and addressing barriers to services and medical care. Watch for more details about these vital duties and responsibilities.
(0.25 hour)
Successful futures for our children are directly tied to their healthy development as human beings. One way to approach the vast topic of positive youth development is through the framework of the “40 Developmental Assets.” Join us for an in-depth discussion about how the 40 Developmental Assets can be a powerful tool to help caregivers support young people to become caring, responsible adults. This dynamic presentation will assist participants in the creating of strategies for the child welfare professional to partner with caregivers to support the 40 Developmental Assets in their daily involvement with children. These strategies will support the caregivers to provide a nurturing home environment where their children will thrive physically, emotionally, and cognitively.
1.0 Hours
This video covers why accessing sexual and reproductive wellness resources is important for youth in foster care, how to access those resources, and contraception and safer sex methods.
(note: this video is not eligible for relicensing hours)
Engaging with young people about sexual wellness is a vital part of what case workers and caregivers provide for youth in foster care. Sexual wellness is a part of every core priority in child welfare: safety, permanency, and well-being. This video gives information about why and how to engage about sexual wellness.
(0.5 hour)
Foster children need a sense of value and a way to maintain connections while in foster care. Lifebook’s document a child’s journey through foster care. This training helps to define what a Lifebook is for foster children. It discusses the importance of a Lifebook. The training teaches participants options for pages to work on with the child. It reviews the parameters and expectations of a Lifebook. Lifebook’s can prepare a child for reunification and/or adoption. The training helps to engage a child with the book.
1.0 hour
In this presentation you will learn about child development and gender and orientation. LGBTQ+ youth are over-represented in the child welfare system, and this presentation explains that affirmation can be life changing for youth. You will learn about the psychological evaluation process, puberty blockers and hormone therapies, and the importance of seeking help from affirming professionals.
0.5 Hours
Is your child angry and irritable? Vindictive? Defiant? Our presenters explain the criteria for an ODD diagnosis, and several parenting strategies you can use to help with these behaviors.
0.25 hours
This brief training defines dysregulation and provides examples of what dysregulation could look like for some children. The training also touches on brain functioning and the differences between “old brain” and “new brain” responses to dysregulation. Techniques on how to identify dysregulation for children and how to help children identify their own dysregulation, as well as techniques on how to encourage regulation when a child is triggered are also discussed.
0.25 hours
Connections and relationships are foundational to help children manage their emotions and behavior. Our presenters offer several techniques to connect with children, and build relationships that will sustain challenges.
0.25 hours
Whether big or small transitions, it is important to understand how to help our children. Our presenters give helpful techniques to use to honor our children and help them develop the skills they need to successfully manage transitions.
0.25 hours
In this presentation we will cover the topic of sexual and reproductive well-being for youth in foster care, specifically as it relates to laws that protect the reproductive rights of adolescents. The presentation gives an overview of at least nine rights that foster parents or caregivers must adhere to when they have foster teens in their care.
0.5 hour
Our presenter is a former foster youth that shares helpful tips on how foster parents can help a youth get a job and maintain a job. The presenter discusses survival mode for youth and how this could be a struggle to maintain a job. How the youth can build a resume, search for work, and interview prep is also discussed, as well as soft and hard skills.
0.5 hour
Participants will learn the meaning of consent and when consent is true. They will learn how to teach children consent and the importance of boundaries and activities. They will learn how to report sexual assault. Participants will learn who the child can talk to when they are dealing with trauma. Participants will also learn about disclosures and how to handle them.
1.5 hours
Participants will learn to identify different types and attributes of relationships children may be a part of in the modern world. They will learn to develop skills to effectively communicate with their children. They will be able to recognize and adapt to boundaries presenting in your children to strengthen relationships. They will learn to keep children safe on the internet. They will learn to support children through changes with friends while encouraging them to venture out and meet new types of people.
1.5 hours
Participants will learn to define self-care. They will learn to demonstrate simple self-care techniques. They will learn how the brain changes during stress. Participants will be able to demonstrate mindfulness. They will learn to understand the perception can be different among others but that does not make it wrong.
1.0 hour
Participants will learn different social media platforms. They will learn to identify and understand risks foster children face on the internet. Participants will learn what to do and how to help children remain safe on the internet.
0.5 hours
En esta presentación cubriremos el tema del bienestar sexual y reproductivo para jóvenes en hogares de crianza, específicamente en lo que se refiere a leyes que protegen los derechos reproductivos de los adolescentes. La presentación da una descripción general de por lo menos nueve derechos que los padres de crianza temporal o cuidadores deben adherirse cuando tienen adolescentes de crianza temporal bajo su cuidado.
0.5 hour
Embrace Families’ Diversity Action Team is committed to be the change we want to see for our kids, in our community, and in the world. The bias we aim to address and change is particularly difficult as so much of it is based on unconscious beliefs, associations or attitudes. Taking time to understand how this implicit bias colors our perceptions of those around is a critical first step. This training is designed to help us understand and address implicit bias, especially in the context of how it impacts the children and families we serve.
1.5 hours
Since the onset of the pandemic especially, social media is increasingly being exploited to contact, recruit, and sell children and youth for sex. Some traffickers use online ads to target victims, or they will send friend/follow requests to young people in their region, proceed to strike up a conversation, and develop online friendships. These conversations may start off friendly and innocent, but then the traffickers will begin to use manipulation to charm their potential victims. The online friendship quickly evolves to a romantic relationship, and this is where the sextortion techniques are used to lure their victims into human trafficking. During this session, attendees will learn to recognize signs of social media recruitment, and how traffickers lure their victims on the internet. Attendees will learn about the dangers of popular social media dating sites and apps. This session will also discuss popular emojis and their hidden meaning used to communicate sexual gesture when texting or communicating on internet sites and social media apps.
1.5 hours
California's Just in Time Training is a web based service program designed to connect foster parents, kinship or other caregivers with training, peer experts and other resources. Questions are answered and practical solutions to care for children are discussed - all from the comfort of your home or office.