Description: Navigating open adoptions can be very overwhelming and complex. Openness in adoption can bring up a lot of questions and fears in families. In [...]

Guest Speakers Gayathri (Gaya) Chelvakumar, MD, MPH is an attending physician in the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at Rady Children’s Hospital and [...]

Instructors: Representatives from Scripps Mercy Hospital’s Well Being Foster children can experience traumatic episodes that can lead to negative thoughts such as suicide. This course [...]

 El entrenamiento revelará la dinámica psicológica que lleva al maltrato y victimización de los niños por los traficantes sexuales. Se profundizará completamente sobre el trauma complejo del abuso [...]

Description: Foster care is a pipeline for the Commercial and Sexual Exploitation of Children. In San Diego County alone, it generates over $800 million each [...]

Guest Speaker Laura Ornelas, LCSW Description: Parenting children is hard work. Parenting those who have experienced loss and trauma can be even more challenging. Getting [...]

Description: Many foster children don’t know their life story as the trauma they have experienced clouds their view. The use of literature, songs and movies [...]

Guest Instructor: Andy Pierce, Master Resilience Expert & iBounce Up Founder Description: Facilitated by Resilience Expert, Andy Pierce, who trains elite Army Soldiers, educators, teens, [...]

Instructora: Gisella Gomez, MSW Descripción: La Disciplina Positiva es una forma de educar a los niños basada en el respeto mutuo, el cariño y la comprensión, [...]

Instructors: Donna Boissiere, LCSW/Adoptive Parent & Carrie Collins, Resource/Adoptive Parent Description: Turn one of the most challenging developmental periods in your children’s lives ‐ the adolescent [...]