Loss and grief play a central role in families formed through foster care, adoption, or guardianship and have a significant impact on the mental health of children. Facilitated by 2 leading experts in the field of adoption, foster care, and guardianship, this training will explore what lies beneath a brave or bold exterior, seemingly manipulative or obstinate defiant behaviors, and provide strategies to address those underlying issues rather than jumping to "punishment". Concrete strategies will also be provided to support grieving children, mitigate ambiguous loss, and help children, youth and families uncover hope and healing.            

Loss and grief play a central role in families formed through foster care, adoption, or guardianship and have a significant impact on the mental health of children. Facilitated by 2 leading experts in the field of adoption, foster care, and guardianship, this training will explore what lies beneath a brave or bold exterior, seemingly manipulative or obstinate defiant behaviors, and provide strategies to address those underlying issues rather than jumping to "punishment". Concrete strategies will also be provided to support grieving children, mitigate ambiguous loss, and help children, youth and families uncover hope and healing.            

Loss and grief play a central role in families formed through foster care, adoption, or guardianship and have a significant impact on the mental health of children. Facilitated by 2 leading experts in the field of adoption, foster care, and guardianship, this training will explore what lies beneath a brave or bold exterior, seemingly manipulative or obstinate defiant behaviors, and provide strategies to address those underlying issues rather than jumping to "punishment". Concrete strategies will also be provided to support grieving children, mitigate ambiguous loss, and help children, youth and families uncover hope and healing.

You've spent months preparing your home, your friends, your family, and yourself, and your worker just dropped a young person off at your home, leaving you in charge.

Now what?

In this webinar, we'll tackle the first 30 days following a foster/adoptive placement.

What do our young people need? What conversations need to happen? What systems need to be in place? What happens when our best-laid plans go belly up?

We'll discuss the answers to these questions and more so that all participants depart ready to develop their own personal action plan, or partner with a family to support stability and success.

At the conclusion of this training, participants will be able to do the following:

• Describe several best practices related to family formation
• Develop an action plan for family success and support
• Identify opportunities to engage and support family cohesion and stability