Presented by CalTrin
Participants will learn practical, body-based self-care skills they can use in real time—during a shift, between hard interactions, and at home—to reduce stress load and recover faster. This session teaches quick nervous-system resets (breath, posture, orienting, movement, and micro-recovery routines) that can also be adapted for clients and families. We’ll also name the organizational risk of untreated burnout—shutdown, compassion fatigue, and turnover—and identify a few team-level habits that protect sustainability.

Learners will:

Identify common ways stress, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress show up in the body, including fight, flight, fawn, and freeze responses in high-impact care work.
Practice real-time somatic tools—including breath, posture, orienting, grounding, resistance, and movement-based strategies—to support regulation during work, in the field, and after difficult interactions.
Create a practical self-care plan for before, during, and after hard moments, using body-based tools that can support recovery, reduce stress load, and increase sustainability in caregiving roles.

CE Hours: 1.5

Presented by Foster and Kinship Care Education (FKCE)
Instructor: Nora Hayes
Explore the role that resource parents play as they prepare youth to age out of foster care and possibly enter Extended Foster Care. By learning what steps you can begin at home, gaining insight from a young adult in extended foster care, and learning what available resources you can start connecting your teen with, you'll leave feeling more confident in guiding and releasing your child into successful independence.
Nora Hayes is a public speaker, educator, and foster adoptive mother with a wealth of diverse experience ranging from educating in the medical field to presenting in prison systems. She has specializations teaching in subjects such as chidbirth, parenting, health and safety classes. Additionally, as a certified trainer in the Children's Trust Fund Alliance’s national curriculum, "Bringing the Protective Factors Framework to Life In Your Work," Nora is able to train others in their state and region. Within her 30+ years of experience, Nora is also a foster/adoptive mom to a daughter with experience in the foster care system. She continues to strive to help others navigate through their parenting journey by sharing and intertwining her professional and lived experience!

CE Hours: 1.5