by NFPAEdTeamLL | Apr 10, 2023 | Advocacy
Trainer: Dr. John DeGarmo Description: This session will focus on the many challenges of crisis and stress that foster parents face on a daily basis. This session is designed for case workers and social workers to better understand the times of stress and crisis that...
by NFPAEdTeamLL | Apr 10, 2023 | Birth Parent Relations
Trainer: Jackie Meyer Description: Foster parents feel anger toward the birth parents who hurt the children in their home Birth parents have abused and neglected them. This work shop will help foster parents have empathy for these parents. They are often...
by NFPAEdTeamLL | Apr 10, 2023 | Keeping Relative and Kinship Connections Strong
Trainer: Mrs. Erin Bouchard Description: As a foster and adoptive parent, one of the most critical aspect of our role is navigating and connecting with biological families.Our kids who are in foster care and who have been adopted want to know who they look like, they...
by NFPAEdTeamLL | Apr 10, 2023 | Keeping Relative and Kinship Connections Strong
Trainer: Julie Cooper Description: Supporting kinship connections is an vital part of caring for children in out-of-home care. This interactive workshop will explore aspects of a child’s identity and discuss connection as an important way to minimize feelings of...
by NFPAEdTeamLL | Apr 10, 2023 | Mental Health Issues
Trainer: Jackie Meyer Description: We have all sat through videos and workshop on self care. But we do not do what we have learned. Then we feel guilty. No amount of will power will get us to do it. This workshop gives specific reasons as to what keeps us doing the...
