BSF Institute Upcoming Trainings Calendar
Recognizing and Responding to Signs of Family Stress (online)
By recognizing and responding to early signs of stress, family-serving staff can assist families with getting the support they need to promote the health and well-being of their family and prevent abuse and neglect.
Online Parent Café Team Training
This 3-day online workshop will prepare your team to effectively host the internationally recognized Be Strong Families Online Parent Cafés.
Vicarious Trauma and Vicarious Resilience: Holding Space for and Working Through Our Own and Others' Trauma (online)
Learning how vicarious trauma affects us is the first step to improving our well-being and ability to sustain positive relationships.
Online #WoWTalk Café Add-On
The Online #WoWTalk (Words of Wisdom) Café Add-On prepares parents and providers who have been certified to host Be Strong Families’ Online Parent Cafés to take the next step and begin to produce and host Be Strong Families’ Online #WoWTalk Cafés! This is for participants who have taken the Online Parent Café Training and are facilitating Cafés.
Guest Feature: Father and Male Role Model Inclusion: Strengthening Program Outcomes by Incorporating Fatherhood Initiatives into Daily Practice
Intentional structures and systems drive sustainable fatherhood and male engagement initiatives. This includes establishing roles, responsibilities, male engagement champions, research-based practices, and coordinated communication and relationship development plans.
Online Parent Café Team Training
This 3-day online workshop will prepare your team to effectively host the internationally recognized Be Strong Families Online Parent Cafés.
Shared Parenting: Assisting Parents with Child-Welfare-Involvement and Caregivers with Building Collaborative Relationships (online)
This workshop introduces child-welfare staff to Be Strong Families’ Shared Parenting workshop for parents and caregivers.
Online #WoWTalk Café Add-On
The Online #WoWTalk (Words of Wisdom) Café Add-On prepares parents and providers who have been certified to host Be Strong Families’ Online Parent Cafés to take the next step and begin to produce and host Be Strong Families’ Online #WoWTalk Cafés! This is for participants who have taken the Online Parent Café Training and are facilitating Cafés.
Building Strong Relationships with Families (online)
This hands-on, activity-based, experiential workshop builds family-serving staff members’ parent engagement skills.
Online Parent Café Team Training
This 3-day online workshop will prepare your team to effectively host the internationally recognized Be Strong Families Online Parent Cafés.
Being an Agent for Positive Change (online)
This training challenges workers to understand their own story within their work.
Online #WoWTalk Café Add-On
The Online #WoWTalk (Words of Wisdom) Café Add-On prepares parents and providers who have been certified to host Be Strong Families’ Online Parent Cafés to take the next step and begin to produce and host Be Strong Families’ Online #WoWTalk Cafés! This is for participants who have taken the Online Parent Café Training and are facilitating Cafés.
Online Parent Café Team Training
This 3-day online workshop will prepare your team to effectively host the internationally recognized Be Strong Families Online Parent Cafés.
Online #WoWTalk Café Add-On
The Online #WoWTalk (Words of Wisdom) Café Add-On prepares parents and providers who have been certified to host Be Strong Families’ Online Parent Cafés to take the next step and begin to produce and host Be Strong Families’ Online #WoWTalk Cafés! This is for participants who have taken the Online Parent Café Training and are facilitating Cafés.
Integrating the YouthThrive™ Protective and Promotive Factors Framework into Your Work (online)
Targeted toward staff who work with youth in care, this workshop offers the YouthThrive™ Protective and Promotive Factors framework as a tool for thinking about, organizing, and enhancing their services.
Online Vitality Café Add-On
The Online Vitality Café Add-On prepares participants who have been certified to host Be Strong Families’ Online Parent Cafés to take the next step and begin to produce and host Be Strong Families’ Online Vitality Cafés! This is for participants who have taken the Online Parent Café Training and are facilitating Cafés.
Living the Protective Factors (online)
This two-day workshop gives participants the opportunity to “test-drive” the five research-based Strengthening Families™ Protective Factors that are proven to keep children safe and families strong.
Online Parent Café Team Training
This 3-day online workshop will prepare your team to effectively host the internationally recognized Be Strong Families Online Parent Cafés.
Trauma-Informed Parenting: Using Lifebooks (online)
This training is designed to assist participants with understanding the value of a Lifebook for a child in care and the ways in which the collaborative process of developing a Lifebook can promote psychological wellbeing and assist with maintaining positive family ties as well as partnerships between parents with child welfare involvement and caregivers.
Online #WoWTalk Café Add-On
The Online #WoWTalk (Words of Wisdom) Café Add-On prepares parents and providers who have been certified to host Be Strong Families’ Online Parent Cafés to take the next step and begin to produce and host Be Strong Families’ Online #WoWTalk Cafés! This is for participants who have taken the Online Parent Café Training and are facilitating Cafés.
Online Vitality Café Add-On
The Online Vitality Café Add-On prepares participants who have been certified to host Be Strong Families’ Online Parent Cafés to take the next step and begin to produce and host Be Strong Families’ Online Vitality Cafés! This is for participants who have taken the Online Parent Café Training and are facilitating Cafés.
Assisting and Supporting Parents with Child-Welfare-Involvement with Getting on the Fast Track (online)
In this workshop, staff will learn about the Get on the Fast Track workshop and group support that they can make available to their clients.
Online Parent Café Team Training
This 3-day online workshop will prepare your team to effectively host the internationally recognized Be Strong Families Online Parent Cafés.
Online #WoWTalk Café Add-On
The Online #WoWTalk (Words of Wisdom) Café Add-On prepares parents and providers who have been certified to host Be Strong Families’ Online Parent Cafés to take the next step and begin to produce and host Be Strong Families’ Online #WoWTalk Cafés! This is for participants who have taken the Online Parent Café Training and are facilitating Cafés.
Reducing Toxic Stress by Living the Protective Factors (online)
The heart of this session is learning a strengths-based way to engage parents in building Protective Factors to reduce toxic stress.
Being an Agent for Positive Change (online)
This training challenges workers to understand their own story within their work.
Communicating with Families (online)
This interactive workshop assists participants with understanding why certain conversations are difficult and how they could become less so.
Taking Your Cafés Online (online workshop)
Learn how to take your Cafés online while keeping the fidelity of the Be Strong Families model.
Prerequisite: Participants for this workshop must have completed Be Strong Families' In-Person Parent Café Training (both days) before attending this training.
Online Parent Café Team Training
This 3-day online workshop will prepare your team to effectively host the internationally recognized Be Strong Families Online Parent Cafés.
Integrating the YouthThrive™ Protective and Promotive Factors Framework into Your Work (online)
Targeted toward staff who work with youth in care, this workshop offers the YouthThrive™ Protective and Promotive Factors framework as a tool for thinking about, organizing, and enhancing their services.
Integrating the YouthThrive™ Protective and Promotive Factors Framework into Your Work (online)
Targeted toward staff who work with youth in care, this workshop offers the YouthThrive™ Protective and Promotive Factors framework as a tool for thinking about, organizing, and enhancing their services.
Recognizing and Responding to Signs of Family Stress (online)
By recognizing and responding to early signs of stress, family-serving staff can assist families with getting the support they need to promote the health and well-being of their family and prevent abuse and neglect.
Living The Protective Factors (online)
This two-day workshop gives participants the opportunity to “test-drive” the five research-based Strengthening Families™ Protective Factors that are proven to keep children safe and families strong.
Relationship-Based Practice and Making Effective Referrals (online)
This workshop teaches participants how to implement a client-driven, partnership-based approach to I&R where the focus is on building parents’ skills to research and access services as they both build their knowledge of what’s available in the community.
Online Parent Café Team Training
This 3-day online workshop will prepare your team to effectively host the internationally recognized Be Strong Families Online Parent Cafés.
Trauma-Informed Parenting: Using Lifebooks (online)
This training is designed to assist participants with understanding the value of a Lifebook for a child in care and the ways in which the collaborative process of developing a Lifebook can promote psychological wellbeing and assist with maintaining positive family ties as well as partnerships between parents with child welfare involvement and caregivers.
Maintaining Family Connectedness (online)
When reunification is the permanency goal, maintaining strong family ties while the child is out of their parents’ home is essential.
Taking Your Cafés Online (online workshop)
Learn how to take your Cafés online while keeping the fidelity of the Be Strong Families model.
Prerequisite: Participants for this workshop must have completed Be Strong Families' In-Person Parent Café Training (both days) before attending this training.
Communicating with Families (online)
This interactive workshop assists participants with understanding why certain conversations are difficult and how they could become less so.
Online Parent Café Team Training
This 3-day online workshop will prepare your team to effectively host the internationally recognized Be Strong Families Online Parent Cafés.
Assisting and Supporting Parents with Child-Welfare-Involvement with Getting on the Fast Track (online)
In this workshop, staff will learn about the Get on the Fast Track workshop and group support that they can make available to their clients.
Vicarious Trauma and Vicarious Resilience: Holding Space for and Working Through Our Own and Others' Trauma (online)
Learning how vicarious trauma affects us is the first step to improving our well-being and ability to sustain positive relationships.
Online Parent Café Team Training
This 3-day online workshop will prepare your team to effectively host the internationally recognized Be Strong Families Online Parent Cafés.
Shared Parenting: Assisting Parents with Child-Welfare-Involvement and Caregivers with Building Collaborative Relationships (online)
This workshop introduces child-welfare staff to Be Strong Families’ Shared Parenting workshop for parents and caregivers.
Living The Protective Factors (online)
This two-day workshop gives participants the opportunity to “test-drive” the five research-based Strengthening Families™ Protective Factors that are proven to keep children safe and families strong.
Living The Protective Factors (online)
This two-day workshop gives participants the opportunity to “test-drive” the five research-based Strengthening Families™ Protective Factors that are proven to keep children safe and families strong.
Online Parent Café Team Training
This 3-day online workshop will prepare your team to effectively host the internationally recognized Be Strong Families Online Parent Cafés.
Guest Feature: Positively Impacting Addiction by Training and Empowering the Family (online)
Allies in Recovery uses CRAFT: Community Reinforcement and Family Training a scientifically proven alternative approach to Al-Anon, for families struggling with the addiction of a loved one. It draws on the principles of positive reinforcement. Family members will get concrete suggestions based on sound psychological principles and essential self-care skills.
Online Parent Café Team Training
This 3-day online workshop will prepare your team to effectively host the internationally recognized Be Strong Families Online Parent Cafés.
Taking Your Cafés Online (online workshop)
Learn how to take your Cafés online while keeping the fidelity of the Be Strong Families model.
Prerequisite: Participants for this workshop must have completed Be Strong Families' In-Person Parent Café Training (both days) before attending this training.
Guest Feature: Addressing Racial Trauma in Young Children: 5 Early Childhood Interventions (in-person)
This training will focus on interventions for racial trauma as experienced by young children.
Online Parent Café Team Training
This 3-day online workshop will prepare your team to effectively host the internationally recognized Be Strong Families Online Parent Cafés.
Recognizing and Responding to Signs of Family Stress (online)
By recognizing and responding to early signs of stress, family-serving staff can assist families with getting the support they need to promote the health and well-being of their family and prevent abuse and neglect.
Living The Protective Factors (online)
This two-day workshop gives participants the opportunity to “test-drive” the five research-based Strengthening Families™ Protective Factors that are proven to keep children safe and families strong.