Join us for our IN PERSON ResetDay. Make connections with other foster, adoptive and kinship parents who get it! Breakfast goodies, childcare, and lunch provided. Gather to reset and get equipped to better attune and connect with your children. This can help enhance development and heal trauma within your family and with your children. Get ready...

Description: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) affect over half of the children adopted from Eastern Europe and our own foster care system. This damage to the brain causes a wide range of difficulties in behavior and learning, and often gets incompletely diagnosed as ADHD, Bipolar, RAD, PTSD, Autism and of course Oppositional Defiant Disorder. Recognizing...

Course Description: In Part 1, we layed the foundation for parents to have a working knowledge of trauma and its effects on behavior, learning, and home/school climate. We covered awareness of trauma’s impact on the child’s neurophysiological system, behavior and cognition, to prevent children often experiencing their environment as unsafe, thus leading to at-risk encounters, depression, and...