This is a free virtual training offered by Foster Adoptive Care Coalition. This is a two session training that takes place on 3/28 and 4/4 from 6-8:30PM. 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… Read More »FACC Training: Teens: Understanding Challenging Behaviors
The Franklin County Spring Institute is being held by the Franklin County Community Resource Board on 4/5 from 8:30AM-12PM. This year's Spring Institute will focus on youth with problematic sexual behavior. Part one will focus on averting shame and keeping trauma-informed principles at the core of treatment. Part two will explore interventions for youth with… Read More »FCCRB Training: Spring Institute
Join us in honoring the newest class of CASA Volunteers! This will be the first ever CASA graduation and swearing-in ceremony held in Osage County. The ceremony will take place at 5:30PM at the Osage County Courthouse, located at 106 East Main Street in Linn, MO.
Stewards of Children® is an evidence-informed, award-winning two and a half hour training that teaches adults to prevent, recognize, and react responsibly to child sexual abuse. Through interviews with a very diverse group of people with lived experience, experts, and treatment providers, Stewards of Children® teaches adults practical actions they can take to reduce instances… Read More »MONACA Training: 2024 April Virtual Stewards of Children Training
This is a free virtual training offered by Foster Adoptive Care Coalition. This is a two-session training that will take place on 4/11 and 4/18 from 6-9PM. Sibling relationships are emotionally powerful and critically important not only in childhood, but over the course of a lifetime. The sibling relationship is one of the longest relationships… Read More »FACC Training: The Importance of Sibling Bonds
This is a virtual training hosted by Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition on 4/13 from 9-11AM. 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 is explored. Strategies to help children deal with grief and loss are… Read More »FACC Training: Separation, Loss and Grief
This is a virtual training hosted by Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition on 4/22 from 6-830PM. Did you know: Show Me Healthy Kids members can earn money for well care doctor visits? Birthparents can utilize transportation to visit their children? Some children qualify for a free sensory kit? Youth can receive free tutoring? This presentation… Read More »FACC Training: What’s New with Your Child’s Insurance: An Evening with Show Me Healthy Kids
If you are a CASA volunteer who is working with an older youth (Ages 14+), please join us and your fellow CASA volunteers for a discussion on engaging youth in their goal planning process. Please RSVP to Angie at angie@casamideastmo.org.
This is a free virtual training offered by the Foster Adoptive Care Coalition on 4/25 from 6-8:30PM. This training will discuss understanding potential developmental impacts of prenatal drug exposure, understanding Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and their impact on development, and common challenges faced by caregivers and how to reframe them. Click HERE to register now!… Read More »FACC Training: The Impact of Prenatal Substance Use
This trauma-informed training helps address the holistic needs of children (and their parents) through understanding trauma, brain development, attachment styles, regulation patterns, tools for behavior changes, and key skills to build secure attachments. It focuses on helping connect, empower, and correct behaviors for kids who have experienced trauma. There are multiple dates available for those… Read More »FCCRB Training: Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI)
This is a blended training opportunity being offered through Prevent+Ed. Youth Mental Health and First Aid Training (YMHFA) in-person portion will be held on Friday, 4/26/24 from 8AM-1PM. More details below. YMHFA is designed to teach parents, family members, caregivers, teachers, school staff, peers, neighbors, health and human services workers, and other caring citizens how… Read More »Prevent+Ed Training: Youth Mental Health First Aid Training (Blended)
This is a free virtual training offered by the Foster Adoptive Care Coalition. This is a two-session training that will take place on 4/30 and 5/7 from 6-8PM. This is a new training on bridging the gap between birth and foster parents. For years in child welfare a major gap has existed between birth and… Read More »FACC Training: Birth & Foster Parent Partnerships: Creating a Caregiving Network