Presented By: FKCE
Trainer: Anne Rodriguez
Conflict is a normal part of caregiving, but it can become especially difficult when a child or youth has experienced trauma, loss, or disrupted relationships. This training introduces practical communication strategies that help adults respond to conflict with steadiness, curiosity, and compassion.

Participants will learn to recognize signs of escalation, listen and validate without abandoning boundaries, and repair relationships after difficult interactions. Examples and guided practice will focus on common situations in foster and resource families. This training recognizes that trust takes time and a young person may not be ready to reconnect right away, so with the tools to listen and respond while maintaining clear, respectful boundaries, and tips for repair conversation after conflict, participants will learn to rebuild trust and identify next steps with their child or youth in care.
Your Instructor: Anne Rodriguez is a seasoned trainer and former Child Welfare Services social worker with over two decades of experience supporting foster youth, caregivers, and professionals. She trains statewide for agencies like California Community College Chancellor’s Office and facilitates Foster and Kinship Care Education (FKCE), ILP, and YESS programs. Anne’s trauma-informed approach blends professional expertise with lived understanding, empowering youth and caregivers to build healing, resilience, and connection.

CE Hours: 2

Presented by FKCE
Instructor Nora Hayes
Explore strategies for fostering healthy nutritional habits within your family by attending this specially designed class for resource caregivers. If you experience stress in getting your child to eat a balanced meal, this class will introduce you to methods to make mealtimes a positive experience for everyone. This training will dive into children's different responses and eating habits depending on developmental ages/stages, trauma and stress impacts, and everything in between.
Through demonstrations, you can get new ideas for healthy delicious snacks and meals the whole family can enjoy! Tackle nutrition and feeding challenges in foster care by introducing and implementing new creative approaches that promote healthy mental well-being, physical health, and interpersonal family dynamics. This training includes:
Week 3: Toxic Stress and Nourishment
How trauma and toxic stress impacts health and eating habits
Learn trauma-informed way to address children’s concerning eating behaviors, including picky eating
How good nutrition can support mental wellbeing
Learn simple strategies for selecting affordable and nutritious foods
Your Instructor:
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

Presented by Partnership for Safe Families and Communities
Trainer: Senta Greene M.A., CCLS
Raise Our Voices Community Connection Series. This 90-minute training will explore: - Understanding grief as a universal, whole-person experience - Learn the language and different forms of grief - Build practical tools for supporting grief in ourselves and others *Live Spanish Interpretation will be provided
Senta Greene - As a Community Connector for Raise Our Voice!, Senta brings warmth, authenticity, expertise, and practical tools to conversations on parenting, grief, resilience, relationships, and development across childhood, adolescence, and transitional-age youth, offering greater insight, meaningful support, and real strategies for navigating the experiences that shape our lives.

CE Hours: 1.5 Hours