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.
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.
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.
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.
Building Strong Relationships with Families (online)
This hands-on, activity-based, experiential workshop builds family-serving staff members’ parent engagement skills.
Being an Agent for Positive Change (online)
This training challenges workers to understand their own story within their work.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Communicating with Families (online)
This interactive workshop assists participants with understanding why certain conversations are difficult and how they could become less so.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Guest Feature: Beyond Self-Care Avoiding Burnout from an Ecological Perspective (online)
In this workshop, we will explore the main causes of burnout and the creative solutions to address burnout in our stressed out world.
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.
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.
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.
Solving the Equity Puzzle (online)
Join us for Solving the Equity Puzzle, an online event where we'll unravel the complexities surrounding equity and find practical solutions.
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.
Communicating with Families (online)
This interactive workshop assists participants with understanding why certain conversations are difficult and how they could become less so.
Building Strong Relationships with Families (online)
This hands-on, activity-based, experiential workshop builds family-serving staff members’ parent engagement skills.
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.
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.