You can attend with your CASA or offer to work a game.

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This training helps participants understand the impact of separation and ambiguous loss, and the differnet ways children grieve.  Life-long grieving and the importance of providing opportunities for grieving is explored. Strategies to help children deal with grief and loss are identified. Participants will understand loss and fractured attachments with birth family members and previous placements;… Read More »Separation, Loss and Grief

If you are working with a Gasconade or Osage County Family, feel free to join us to celebrate the holidays.

Understanding the foster care system can be challenging and overwhelming while you're also providing care to children who've experienced trauma. Often parents are given incorrect or contradictory information, leaving them feeling unsupported and frustrated. This training will address common questions and situations for fostering families such as: *Who to call when you can't reach your… Read More »Know Your Rights, Know Your Role

Youth who have experienced trauma often have behaviors that can be frustrating and challenging to manage. In general, traditional parenting techniques are not effective, leaving care providers baffled and overwhelmed. This training will address three behaviors which seem to confound parents the most: lying, stealing and meltdowns. Learn how trauma impacts the youth’s brain, reasons… Read More »Big Behaviors: Making Sense of Lying, Stealing & Meltdowns

Bullying has been a pervasive issue for youth around the world, both in person and the virtual world of social media. Many children are unequipped on how to protect themselves or help their friend facing this problem. Parents, schools, and communities can be the key to giving children the confidence to face bullying head on.… Read More »Bullying and How it Impacts Our Kids

You’ve probably heard about holiday Little Wishes, but did you know the Foster and Adoptive Care Coalition offers many other services to foster and adoptive families and children? The Coalition prides itself on filling community gaps by offering educational advocacy, family finding, specialized adoption recruitment, training, therapeutic resources, and SO MUCH more! Attend our Virtual… Read More »FACC Virtual Open House

Parenting teens who have experienced trauma can bring additional challenges. This training will focus on topics such as rejection, aggression, social media, sex and self-harming. Learn techniques and build skills to navigate difficult situations and create safety plans for your youth. Wednesdays, January 15 and 22 | 6-9 p.m.  6 Hours Training Credit Enroll Here

Forensic Interviews, Victim Advocacy, Training and Education, Mental Health Services RSVP to alecia@casamideastmo.org or 636-583-4422

The child welfare team traditionally focuses on the immediate needs of youth and not the lifelong connections that are so important throughout life. This training will assist resource parents in understanding the need of having key people in the lives of youth to support them with everyday issues every person faces as they get older.… Read More »Maintaining Connections for Youth

This training acknowledges the complexities associated with caring for children who are related including: divided loyalties, redefining roles and relationships, setting boundaries with parents and other relatives, and the range of emotions including anger, resentment, guilt and/or embarrassment that caregivers can feel. Strategies for how to manage family dynamics and conflicts, identify triggers and effectively… Read More »Kinship Parenting: It’s Complicated!