Wish you knew more CASA volunteers? Are you feeling isolated and/or stressed? Want to find new ways to balance the demands of volunteering and other life responsibilities?  Join us the last Thursday of every month at 7:00pm.

This training will discuss characteristics for caregivers, understanding potential developmental impacts of prenatal exposure, understanding Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and their impact on development, common challenges faced by caregivers, and how to reframe them. (2 Hours Training Credit) Enroll Here

Sept 7 & 14  9:00am- 11:00am 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… Read More »Big Behaviors: Making Sense of Lying, Stealing & Meltdowns

Classes are open to any youth (13-19) in the Franklin County, Missouri area who are interested in gaining some life skills.  RSVP to Denise.Sprick@courts.mo.gov.

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… Read More »Know your Rights, Know Your Role

Join us every 2nd Friday of the month from 8am-9am for CASA Coffee!

An overview of the impact fostering or adopting can have on family dynamics including the impact on marital relationships, biological children, foster or adoptive children already living in the home, and extended family members. It helps parents who are fostering or adopting gain insight and increased understanding of how their family may need to adjust,… Read More »Family Dynamics: Right Time Trainings. (Virtual Lunch & Learn)

This training helps participants understand the importance of attachment in parenting, both for the children and parents who are fostering or adopting. It covers the impact of fractured attachments/lack of attachments on children’s ability to attach and identifies strategies to develop healthy attachment bonds. This theme also covers developing trust and developing children’s sense of… Read More »Attachment

Parents gain an understanding of why a child bullies, signs of a child being a victim of a bully, and intervention approaches within the community and school setting.  Content is based on the national program, Stop Bullying Now! To register, call 314.968.2350 ext. 7234 or email intake.dept@familyforwardmo.org.

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!

Classes are open to any youth (13-19) in the Franklin County, Missouri area who are interested in gaining some life skills.  RSVP to Denise.Sprick@courts.mo.gov.

This training helps participants understand the impact of separation and ambiguous loss and the different ways children grieve. Life-long grieving and the importance of providing opportunities for grieving are 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