For Families
Classes are one hour long and available in English and Spanish
Toxic Stress and High-Risk Behaviors
Children who grow up in highly stressful environments can experience challenges that affect their emotions, relationships, learning, and overall health. This workshop will help parents and caregivers understand how ongoing stress can impact a child’s developing brain and behavior. Participants will learn why some children may respond to stress in ways that seem risky or concerning, and will gain insight into how caring adults can provide support that promotes resilience, healthy development, and positive decision-making.
Toxic Stress Part 1: Stress and the Brain
This workshop explores how stress affects a child’s developing brain and overall well-being. Parents and caregivers will learn about different types of stress, including ongoing or overwhelming stress, and how early life experiences known as Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) can influence a child’s emotions, learning, relationships, and behavior. Participants will gain a better understanding of why some children may respond to stress in challenging ways and the protective factors that contribute to the health, safety, and overall well-being of children.
Toxic Stress Part 2: Preventing Harmful Stress
In this workshop, parents and caregivers will learn practical ways to reduce harmful stress and support healthy development in children. Using a prevention-focused approach, we will explore how Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs) help build resilience and strengthen a child’s ability to cope with challenges. Participants will learn how to encourage healthy coping skills, strengthen protective factors such as supportive relationships and safe environments, and better understand how stress affects brain development and behavior. We will also discuss what caring adults can do to lessen the impact and promote healing and long-term well-being.
Toxic Stress and Child Development
A child’s earliest years are the most crucial for brain development. Living in stressful environments can negatively affect a child’s emotional, social, and physical development. Through this training, attendees will be provided with an overview of how stress can affect brain development and be shown how to identify potentially unsafe children and the steps to take when suspicion arises.
Triple P: The Power of Positive Parenting
This seminar introduces the five key principles of positive parenting: Ensuring a safe and engaging environment, creating a positive learning environment, using assertive discipline, having reasonable expectations, and looking after yourself as a parent.
Triple P: Raising Confident, Competent Children
In this seminar, parents are introduced to six core building blocks for children to become confident and successful at school and beyond. These competencies are: Showing respect to others, being considerate, having good communication and social skills, having healthy self-esteem, being a good problem solver, and becoming independent.
Triple P TEEN: Raising Responsible Teenagers
This seminar introduces new ideas to encourage your teenager to make good decisions, be respectful, considerate, reliable, and involved in family life.
Triple P TEEN: Raising Competent Teenagers
This seminar provides you with tools to set your teenager up for life with strategies that focus on helping your child get the most out of their school years. Find out how to help them communicate well, develop self-discipline and good routines, follow rules, and solve problems.
Triple P TEEN: Getting Teenagers Connected
This seminar provides you with strategies to help your teenager develop good, supportive friendships. You’ll learn ways to build their confidence, encourage their social skills, help them to plan and meet commitments, and encourage them to take care of others.
Triple P Stepping Stones: Positive Parenting for Children with a Disability
Learn the seven core principles of positive parenting. These principles are: Ensuring a safe and engaging environment, creating a positive learning environment, using assertive discipline, having reasonable expectations, looking after yourself as a parent, adapting to having a child with a disability, and being part of the community.
Triple P: Raising Resilient Children
Parents are introduced to six core building blocks for children to manage their feelings and become resilient in dealing with life stress. These competencies are: Recognizing and accepting feelings, expressing feelings appropriately, building a positive outlook, developing coping skills, dealing with negative feelings, and dealing with stressful life events.
Triple P Stepping Stones: Helping Your Child Reach Their Potential
In this seminar, practitioners build on the foundation seminar and show parents how they can use the positive parenting principles to promote their child’s development by teaching them new skills and behaviors. The six key steps to teach a new skill are: Choose a skill to teach, break the skill into steps, choose rewards, decide on when and where to teach, use effective teaching strategies, and keep track and review.
Triple P Stepping Stones: Changing Problem Behavior into Positive Behavior
Parents are often uncertain how to manage problem behavior in ways that help children learn alternative and more adaptive behavior to take its place. Parents are introduced to the key steps of how to do this. The steps covered include: Tracking the behavior, understanding why the behavior is occurring, changing events that occur before the problem, encouraging alternative behavior, removing accidental rewards, and putting the plan into action.
Choose your Partner and Caregiver Carefully
Everyone knows there are times when you have to leave your child with another person. It’s hard to imagine someone you love or trust could hurt your child, but it happens. Many children are harmed each year by adults who don’t know how to take care of a child, especially when the child is crying or being difficult. The purpose of this course is to provide information on how to carefully select safe caregivers for children, including identifying warning signs and behaviors in potential significant others, babysitters, or other individuals who may care for children.
Enough Abuse: Strategies for your Family and the Community
Enough Abuse! This educational program provides strategies for adults to take responsibility for preventing child sexual abuse. Learn how to recognize behaviors in adults that suggest someone might pose a sexual risk to children, and to recognize signs that a child might have been sexually abused
Healthy Families, Healthy Communities
This class, appropriate for all types of community organizations, focuses on tactics for building strong family foundations and community connections, enabling communities to prevent neglect and abuse through forming interconnected support systems.
Speak up for your Family: Advocacy 101
Learn the basics of what makes up advocacy and discover how this process can help you achieve a better outcome for yourself, your family, and your community.
For Educators & Family-Serving Professionals
Classes are one hour long and available in English and Spanish. CEUs are available when requested.
Recognize and Report Child Maltreatment
Child maltreatment is not selective; it exists in all segments of our society. This training will teach individuals how to recognize characteristics of child maltreatment in children and abusive parents, define a mandated reporter, identify steps in reporting suspected child maltreatment, and provide resources for families and caregivers.
Enough Abuse: Preventing Child Sexual Abuse
Enough Abuse! This educational program discusses the nature and scope of child abuse, from inappropriate boundary violations to illegal sexual abuse of children or teens. It also provides elements of proper screening of prospective staff and how to respond to disclosure of sexual abuse or misconduct.
Toxic Stress and High-Risk Behaviors
Children who grow up in highly stressful environments can experience challenges that affect their emotions, relationships, learning, and overall health. This workshop will help parents and caregivers understand how ongoing stress can impact a child’s developing brain and behavior. Participants will learn why some children may respond to stress in ways that seem risky or concerning, and will gain insight into how caring adults can provide support that promotes resilience, healthy development, and positive decision-making.
Working with Parents in Culturally Competent Ways
Cultural competence is the ability to work with families and learn practices to respect cultural preferences and increase family responsiveness. This session provides participants with an overview of the relationship between culture and parental functions to become more proficient at recognizing important cultural factors, understanding how culture influences parental functions, and learning strategies to address cultural issues during parent interventions.
Toxic Stress Part 1: Stress and the Brain
This workshop explores how stress affects a child’s developing brain and overall well-being. Parents and caregivers will learn about different types of stress, including ongoing or overwhelming stress, and how early life experiences known as Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) can influence a child’s emotions, learning, relationships, and behavior. Participants will gain a better understanding of why some children may respond to stress in challenging ways and the protective factors that contribute to the health, safety, and overall well-being of children.
Toxic Stress Part 2: Preventing Harmful Stress
In this workshop, parents and caregivers will learn practical ways to reduce harmful stress and support healthy development in children. Using a prevention-focused approach, we will explore how Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs) help build resilience and strengthen a child’s ability to cope with challenges. Participants will learn how to encourage healthy coping skills, strengthen protective factors such as supportive relationships and safe environments, and better understand how stress affects brain development and behavior. We will also discuss what caring adults can do to lessen the impact and promote healing and long-term well-being.
Toxic Stress and Child Development
A child’s earliest years are the most crucial for brain development. Living in stressful environments can negatively affect a child’s emotional, social, and physical development. Through this training, attendees will be provided with an overview of how stress can affect brain development and be shown how to identify potentially unsafe children and the steps to take when suspicion arises.