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Understanding the LGBTQ+ Community and Supporting the Foster Youth in Your Care Training objectives are: improve basic knowledge of the LGBTQ+ community including terminology, how to support youth through the coming out process, increasing understanding of gender identity and gender non-conforming youth to respond appropriately, and building awareness of issues the LGBTQ+ community may face.
0.75 Hours
This video provides an overview of adverse childhood experiences and toxic stress, how toxic stress shows up in behavior and beliefs, as well as how to support youth who have experienced or are experiencing toxic stress. Presented by licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Barbara Lankamp-Kochis.
0.5 hours
Youth transitioning out of foster care often come out at a disadvantage. The norm they had grown accustom to where supportive adults fulfill specific needs typically comes to an end when they leave foster care. However, that's when they actually need more supportive people and this training addresses the need. This training is designed to help caretakers have the conversations needed to discover the supports youth will have when they leave care.
1.5 hours
This training addresses questions many foster parents have about caring for ethnic hair types. The training interviews two barbers on hair care routines, needs, and how to maintain the hair of foster youth. Many foster parents have questions and want to hear it from the experts.
0.5 hours
A collection of trainings from the 2021 QPI National Conference
This session will define trauma and its effects on children and families. You will learn how parenting styles and behaviors from one generation influence the parentings and behaviors of the next generation. The session also discusses brain-functioning, common trauma triggers and responses we see in children and adults as well as the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study, protective factors and attachment styles.
1.5 hours
Exploration of the Ecological Model as an effective way of understanding family dynamics and individual behavior within larger systems and communities. This presentation includes information specific to children and youth in foster care.
0.5 hour
This is a presentation on School Choice and the different types there are. K-12 scholarship programs are reviewed in addition to how to apply and what each scholarship is for.
1.0 hour
Children from hard places manifest the trauma they have experienced in many different ways. Caregivers report the child in their care acting out in ways such as running away, lying, stealing, and arguing but also with children who shut down, become isolated, and stop communicating. Despite the services and trainings available to support families, caregivers often report they continue to feel unprepared and not provided with adequate tools to support children who display significant intensity of behaviors in their home display. This panel will provide a brief overview of recent media events highlighting caregiver’s responses to the behaviors of the children in their homes and engage participants in a discussion in approaches to assist in the moment. The panel will be interactive, providing a significant question and answer segment as well.
1.5 hours
Esta capacitación le ayudará a aprender cómo mantener a su hijo viajando de manera segura en su vehículo. Esta capacitación cubre cómo seleccionar un asiento de seguridad para niños apropiado, explica las diferencias entre la posición orientada hacia atrás y hacia adelante, analiza las consideraciones sobre dónde se puede colocar el asiento en su vehículo, cómo instalar los asientos para el automóvil y cómo sujetar correctamente a los niños en el asiento para el automóvil. . Se demuestra y corrige el uso indebido de los asientos de seguridad para niños, y se abordan preguntas comunes sobre la seguridad de los niños pasajeros.
1.0 hour
Kristen Soloman provides a summary of the 2021 Legislative Updates in regards to SB 96 and SB 80.
0.5 Hours
Reflecting the evolving best practices in child welfare, last year the Florida Legislature enacted new legislation that promotes engagement and partnership among all stakeholders, including birth families, caregivers, and youth. This session will highlight Florida law, including the new F.S. 409.1415, that prioritizes relationships to support children in care. The session will feature a panel of lived experience experts, including caregivers, birth parents, youth, and their agency partners, who will breathe life into the new law by sharing their reflections about the impact of these relationships. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session.
2.0 Hours
Secretary Shevaun Harris commences the Florida FAPA Summer Annual Education Conference.
(note: this video is not eligible for relicensing hours)
Successful futures for our children are directly tied to their healthy development as human beings. One way to approach the vast topic of positive youth development is through the framework of the “40 Developmental Assets.” Join us for an in-depth discussion about how the 40 Developmental Assets can be a powerful tool to help caregivers support young people to become caring, responsible adults. This dynamic presentation will assist participants in the creating of strategies for the child welfare professional to partner with caregivers to support the 40 Developmental Assets in their daily involvement with children. These strategies will support the caregivers to provide a nurturing home environment where their children will thrive physically, emotionally, and cognitively.
1.0 Hours
Foster children need a sense of value and a way to maintain connections while in foster care. Lifebook’s document a child’s journey through foster care. This training helps to define what a Lifebook is for foster children. It discusses the importance of a Lifebook. The training teaches participants options for pages to work on with the child. It reviews the parameters and expectations of a Lifebook. Lifebook’s can prepare a child for reunification and/or adoption. The training helps to engage a child with the book.
1.0 hour
In this presentation you will learn about child development and gender and orientation. LGBTQ+ youth are over-represented in the child welfare system, and this presentation explains that affirmation can be life changing for youth. You will learn about the psychological evaluation process, puberty blockers and hormone therapies, and the importance of seeking help from affirming professionals.
0.5 Hours
Is your child angry and irritable? Vindictive? Defiant? Our presenters explain the criteria for an ODD diagnosis, and several parenting strategies you can use to help with these behaviors.
0.25 hours
This brief training defines dysregulation and provides examples of what dysregulation could look like for some children. The training also touches on brain functioning and the differences between “old brain” and “new brain” responses to dysregulation. Techniques on how to identify dysregulation for children and how to help children identify their own dysregulation, as well as techniques on how to encourage regulation when a child is triggered are also discussed.
0.25 hours
Connections and relationships are foundational to help children manage their emotions and behavior. Our presenters offer several techniques to connect with children, and build relationships that will sustain challenges.
0.25 hours
Whether big or small transitions, it is important to understand how to help our children. Our presenters give helpful techniques to use to honor our children and help them develop the skills they need to successfully manage transitions.
0.25 hours
Our presenter is a former foster youth that shares helpful tips on how foster parents can help a youth get a job and maintain a job. The presenter discusses survival mode for youth and how this could be a struggle to maintain a job. How the youth can build a resume, search for work, and interview prep is also discussed, as well as soft and hard skills.
0.5 hour
Participants will learn the meaning of consent and when consent is true. They will learn how to teach children consent and the importance of boundaries and activities. They will learn how to report sexual assault. Participants will learn who the child can talk to when they are dealing with trauma. Participants will also learn about disclosures and how to handle them.
1.5 hours
Participants will learn to identify different types and attributes of relationships children may be a part of in the modern world. They will learn to develop skills to effectively communicate with their children. They will be able to recognize and adapt to boundaries presenting in your children to strengthen relationships. They will learn to keep children safe on the internet. They will learn to support children through changes with friends while encouraging them to venture out and meet new types of people.
1.5 hours
Participants will learn to define self-care. They will learn to demonstrate simple self-care techniques. They will learn how the brain changes during stress. Participants will be able to demonstrate mindfulness. They will learn to understand the perception can be different among others but that does not make it wrong.
1.0 hour
Participants will learn different social media platforms. They will learn to identify and understand risks foster children face on the internet. Participants will learn what to do and how to help children remain safe on the internet.
0.5 hours
Embrace Families’ Diversity Action Team is committed to be the change we want to see for our kids, in our community, and in the world. The bias we aim to address and change is particularly difficult as so much of it is based on unconscious beliefs, associations or attitudes. Taking time to understand how this implicit bias colors our perceptions of those around is a critical first step. This training is designed to help us understand and address implicit bias, especially in the context of how it impacts the children and families we serve.
1.5 hours
An overview of the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice and the juvenile justice system.The training will provide an overview of the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice and the juvenile justice system. The training details the various branches within the agency to include the different programming and services available, as well as, an overview of the case flow and court process.
1.5 hours
Since the onset of the pandemic especially, social media is increasingly being exploited to contact, recruit, and sell children and youth for sex. Some traffickers use online ads to target victims, or they will send friend/follow requests to young people in their region, proceed to strike up a conversation, and develop online friendships. These conversations may start off friendly and innocent, but then the traffickers will begin to use manipulation to charm their potential victims. The online friendship quickly evolves to a romantic relationship, and this is where the sextortion techniques are used to lure their victims into human trafficking. During this session, attendees will learn to recognize signs of social media recruitment, and how traffickers lure their victims on the internet. Attendees will learn about the dangers of popular social media dating sites and apps. This session will also discuss popular emojis and their hidden meaning used to communicate sexual gesture when texting or communicating on internet sites and social media apps.
1.5 hours
Check out the FL FAPA conference page to see presentation videos from the most recent and past conferences.
Jamie Averett with the Quality Parenting Initiative (QPI) of the Youth Law Center, provides an overview of QPI principles. She discusses some recent Florida legislation that focuses on the building and supporting respectful partnerships between caregivers, birth families and state and community child welfare professionals. She discusses the process of comfort calls and how they benefit the child by taking the first step to build those respectful partnerships.
1.5 hours
Teanna Houston with the Office of Child Welfare talks about the Caregiver Bill of Rights that stems from the 2019 Legislative Session. She will provide information that is based on statewide policy and practice expectations. She will pay particular attention to information sharing and resolving disputes between caregivers and child welfare agencies.
1.0 hours
Courtney Smith with the Office of Child Welfare provides an overview of the Federal Family First Prevention and Services Act that is guiding the DCF to create new programs and initiatives to move Florida’s Child Welfare system from a crisis oriented agency to a prevention agency. She describes how the new focus also provides enhanced services and supports to all caregivers of children in out of home care. She explains plans for specialized foster parent training, recruitment incentives and wrap-around supports.
1.0 hours
Florida's Just in Time Training is a web based service program designed to connect foster parents, kinship or other caregivers with training, peer experts and other resources. Questions are answered and practical solutions to care for children are discussed - all from the comfort of your home or office.