Presented by CalTrin
During this two-hour webinar, participants will explore the foundations of trauma-informed care and how they can be applied across a variety of child- and family-serving settings. The session will examine how stress, adversity, and trauma shape human adaptation, relationships, and behavior, providing a practical framework for understanding the experiences of both clients and professionals.

Participants will:
1. Describe how stress, adversity, and trauma influence human adaptation and explain how these experiences can shape behavior, relationships, and engagement across the lifespan.
2. Identify the six guiding principles of trauma-informed care and describe practical ways they can be applied in child-, family-, and community-serving settings.
3. Recognize the impact of trauma on both clients and the workforce, including the differences between trauma exposure, secondary traumatic stress, and burnout, and identify strategies that promote resilience and well-being.
4. Identify practical actions they can take within their role to strengthen safety, trust, and trauma-informed practices in their everyday work.

CE Hours: 2

Presented by CalTrin
The September Protective Factor of the month is Knowledge of Parenting and Child Development! This webinar is designed for child- and family-serving professionals at all levels of Protective Factors knowledge or experience.

During this session your facilitator will discuss everyday strategies for building Knowledge of Parenting and Child Development with families. This session will be presented in an engaging lecture format. In this engaging lecture-format webinar we will:
1. Review how Knowledge of Parenting and Child Development helps keep families strong and prevents child abuse and neglect
2. Identify key strategies and concrete everyday actions that help families build Knowledge of Parenting and Child Development
3. Explore what it means to build Knowledge of Parenting and Child Development with families in a strength-based way
4. Share Protective Factors resources for providers and families

CE Hours: 2

Presented by Kids and Families Together
Trainer: Laurel Mooney
Adoption is often portrayed as a positive, child-centered act, with adoptive parents viewed as heroes and adoptees expected to feel grateful. This simplified narrative overlooks the complex realities of adoption, including the grief, loss, identity challenges, and mixed emotions experienced by adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive families. This training provides a more balanced understanding of adoption by exploring the seven core issues that affect everyone in the adoption constellation, emphasizing loss, identity, and belonging. Participants will learn the importance of open communication, accurate adoption language, helping children understand their stories, and maintaining connections with birth families whenever possible. Adoption is not a single event but a lifelong journey, and this training offers practical ways to support adoptees and their families throughout that journey.

Laurel Mooney earned her Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy from California Lutheran University, with a specialization in attachment theory. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist at Kids & Families Together and serves as Assistant Manager of Clinical Programs. In her dual role, Laurel provides therapeutic support to children and families involved in the child welfare system, using a trauma informed and attachment-focused approach. She also brings a unique and valuable perspective through her lived experience as a transracial adoptee and is actively engaged in the adoptee community.

CE Hours: 1.5