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… 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.… 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… 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… 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… Read More »Teens: Understanding Challenging Behaviors

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… 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… Read More »Kinship Parenting: It’s Complicated!

This training describes parental resilience, why resilience is important, and covers how caring for children who have experienced trauma, separation, or loss can impact a caregiver’s own well-being. This theme… Read More »Kinship Caregiving: Building Parental Resilience

This training provides a basic understanding of mental health disorders and conditions that commonly occur in childhood. Content is shared to illustrate that not all ‘survival’ behaviors or symptoms of… Read More »Mental Health Considerations