Family Care Learning Memberships

Overcoming Grief and Restoring Hope: Help for Professionals

This course is designed specifically for Counseling professionals with currently practicing with clients. If you are a licensed counselor in the state of Arizona and want to receive CEU credit then you must fill out the form at the end of the course.

$24

Helping Others Without Hurting Yourself

This course is for professionals who work with Traumatized children and gives helpful tips to overcome the negative patterns of Compassion Fatigue.

$12

Understanding the Conflicting Emotions of Your Adopted Youth

No matter how great an adoptive family is or how excited a youth might be about adoption, there are times when foster teens feel conflicted and experience complex emotions around adoption. This course will help caregivers understand those emotions.

$12

Suicidality in Children and Teens

This course provides parents and caregivers with an understanding of the nature of suicidality in youth and children. It provides information on what warning signs to pay attention to in their children and where to seek help when necessary.

$20

Parenting with Connection: Strengthening and Securing Attachments

5.0 (2 reviews)

This course is designed to help you gain insights into making meaningful connections with the children in your home who come from hard places. Parents must understand themself and their reactions to improve interaction with children.

$24

Navigating the Maze of Special Education

5.0 (3 reviews)

In this course, you will get help in navigating the maze of special education with practical tips. You will feel empowered to advocate for your child at school and help them get the support they need to THRIVE!

Free

How Nutrition Can Help Heal Trauma

This course will teach you how to identify unhealthy foods, what unhealthy foods can do to your child's developing brain, how nutrition can heal, and how to prepare healthier foods with your child.

$12

Parenting with Correction: A Trauma Informed Perspective

5.0 (5 reviews)

This course addresses proactive and responsive strategies when helping children with challenging behaviors. This training draws on ideas from Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI), a model created by Dr. Karyn Purvis and Dr. David Cross.

$24

Parenting with Empowerment: Meeting Internal and External Needs

This course is designed to help you better understand why your child sometimes loses control and how to structure a routine and environment to make successful behavior more likely.

$24

Navigating Parenting Difficulties with Adolescents

This course is designed to educate families on possible parenting difficulties common to raising adolescents.

$12

Why Is My Child Acting This Way?

In this course, parents of biological children will learn about why their child may be showing behaviors, anxiety, and/or depression. Parents evaluate how family systems, technology and social media can be a factor in their child's behaviors.

$12

Parenting Children with Sexualized Behaviors

5.0 (2 reviews)

This course provides an explanation of how children and youth develop sexualized behaviors, when these behaviors are a concern, and practical ways to parent children with these behaviors.

$20

Transracial Foster Care and Adoption

5.0 (1 review)

Families will understand how attachment underlies transracial parenting in foster care and adoption and also discover how it fits into a Biblical worldview. Gain confidence in deciding if transracial foster care or adoption is right for your family.

$20

Building Resilience for Parents and Caregivers

5.0 (1 review)

This course is designed for foster, adoptive, and other caregivers struggling with the weight of the demands placed on them and gives strategies to help them combat compassion fatigue by developing and growing resilience.

$12

Helping Children Who are Addicted to Gaming and Social Media

Join Dr. Chuck Geddes, Ph.D., and Renae Regehr, MA RCC, as they discuss why all children can become hooked, but especially why children with trauma are more vulnerable. As well as practical strategies to support and guide them.

$20

How To Calm Your Child's Stress Response and Emotions

This course provides foundational knowledge about how trauma impacts a child's developing brain and body and strategies you can use to calm the stress response system.

$20

Stress: Brain and Body Connection

The purpose of this course is to help learners understand more about the human brain. You will discover how our brain helps protect us from danger through the fight, flight or freeze response.

Grief and Loss: Infertility and Infant Loss in Foster Care and Adoption

5.0 (1 review)

This course will take a look at the grief and loss involved in the infertility experience. Learners will explore the reasons infertility grief is magnified and how it plays out in one’s ability to commit to parenting through foster care or adoption.

$20

Supporting a Child's Transition to an Adoptive Home

5.0 (1 review)

The transition from a foster or group home to a prospective adoptive home can be challenging for a child. This course will help foster parents, adoptive parents and team members better understand the challenges and prepare for a smoother transition.

$12

10 Ways to De-Escalate a Student’s Big Behaviors

5.0 (2 reviews)

The way you frame your student's behavior will have a direct impact on the way you respond to your student's behavior. This course covers practical training for educators.

$20

Helping Parents Understand Sexual Identity Development - Foster Care Edition

Foster and adoptive parents need to be proactive about helping children gain a proper and healthy understanding of sexual identity even when they are caring for children who are not their own.

$12

Navigating Adolescent Developmental Stages

This course will educate families on the typical stages of adolescent development and demystify how these stages apply to traumatized teens.

$12

Safe Sleep for Infants and Toddlers

In this course, you will learn the need for safe sleep for infants and will receive practical teaching on how to help ensure safe sleep for little ones.

$12

Caring for a Substance Exposed Infant

This course is designed to explain how substance exposure of the birth mother effects the infant. It also provides strategies to caregivers of substance exposed infants.

$24

Creating a Ministry to Biological Families

This course is full of practical tips and tools to create a ministry with your foster child’s biological family. There are stories and examples from foster parents who have been doing this type of ministry for years.

$20

Healthy Communication in Marriage

This course focuses on tips and tools that will open up communication as a couple, help them to better understand each other, and how their past trauma may play a part in impacting their desire for healthy communication.

$12

Healthy Communication with Older Children and Teens

This course will help parents and caregivers gain insight into improving the relationship and communication with their older child or teen.

$20

Helping Your Child Make Right Choices

This course provides caregivers an overview of principles to help develop safe, healthy, and trusting relationships with the child or children they are caring for. A special emphasis is on children who come from hard places.

$20

Adoption Identity: Supporting Your Child Over Their Life Span

This course is designed to help parents gain insight into their child's understanding of their adoption story and learn how to support a healthy adoption identity.

$24

The Benefits and Challenges of Shared Parenting with Biological Family in Foster Care

5.0 (1 review)

This course goes over practical tools and tips for building healthy relationships with the foster child’s biological family and covers motivation and challenges that come from engagement with biological parents.

$20

Child Development and Maltreatment

5.0 (2 reviews)

This course is designed to help parents and caregivers learn the various stages of childhood development, gain a foundational understanding of optimal development, and compare the effects maltreatment has on the developing child.

$20

Finding Your Match – Infant Adoption

5.0 (1 review)

This course will provide families interested in infant adoption strategies for marketing themselves to potential birth parents in order to be matched for adoption.

$12

Counting the Cost: Preparing Your Heart and Home for a Child

5.0 (1 review)

The purpose of this course is to help people who are considering to foster or adopt determine their readiness for this “extraordinary” and holy calling. This course also serves as a great refresher course for existing foster and adoptive parents.

$24

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