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Presented by Greater Richmond SCAN Community Programs
This training will provide a brief review of trauma and its impacts as well as introduce the 7 Cs of building resilience. Participants will learn about adverse and positive childhood experiences as well as strategies for building individual and community resilience.
CE Hours: 2
Presented by FKCE
Instructor: Dr. Judy Sullivan Osterhage
Facing loss at any level and at any age can be difficult process alone. Added with transition and change in foster care, the impact can be too much to bear, especially for children and teens who feel they have little to no control over how their life will change. Join Dr. Judy to examine the depth of the stages of grief children and youth experience in order to help them process loss. In doing so, participants will learn how to appropriately approach conversations on loss, transition and change depending on a child's age.
Your Instructor: Dr. Judy Sullivan Osterhage is a Parent Coach Consultant with Parenting Matters & an Early Childhood Specialist. She holds a Doctorate in Elementary Education, and with that, has brought educational trainings to foster and adoptive parents for over 30 years!
CE Hours: 2.5
Presented by Kids and Families Together: A Division of Pathpoint
Instructor: Dr. Christian Bracho
This is part 3 of our 3-part LGBTQ series. Participants will explore/revisit the fundamental aspects of LGBTQ+ communities and ways they can be supported. Part 3 will expand upon the first two training sessions and explore key terms and concepts.
Training Objectives:
- Participants will be able to define key terms related to gender expression and sexual identity.
- Participants will be able to describe some of the needs and challenges LGBTQ+ people face
- Participants will be able to identify strategies for supporting LGBTQ+ people
Your Instructor: Dr. Christian Alejandro Bracho is a Professor of Teacher Education at Cal State Long Beach. He worked as a high school English teacher for 10 years in the San Gabriel Valley
CE Hours: 2
One of the most critical components for establishing a safe, peaceful environment in early childhood programs is engaging children’s cooperation. But many classrooms (and households) are fraught with power struggles that ensue when a child is choosing not to, or is unable to, follow important directions. When power struggles prevail, everybody loses.
This webinar, presented by author and child development and parenting expert Claire Lerner will present a powerful, effective and loving approach to helping preschoolers accept and adapt to rules and limits while avoiding power struggles, both in group settings and in homes. You will also learn roadmap for how to effectively communicate with families to support them in being the loving limit-setters their children need them to be.
In this insightful session you will learn:
Insight into the root causes of power struggles with kids
About an approach to setting limits and boundaries that is loving and effective, using cases from schools and families
How to communicate and partner effectively with families in order to collaborate on establishing appropriate expectations for kids’ behavior and strategies to help kids accept and adapt to rules and limits.
CE Hours: 1.5

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Special Thanks
CASA of Ventura County is grateful for the support of the Margie & Robert E. Peterson Foundation and the Rick & Marcie Sexauer Foundation.