Specialty Classes
Please Note: Certificates will be e-mailed as a PDF documents 2 weeks after the class
All Classes

Online | Mastering the Maze: Essential Forms for Resource Parents
Instructors: Patty Boles, Resource/Adoptive Parent Description: Navigating the world of Resource Parenting can be overwhelming, especially when it comes to managing the essential forms and [...]

Online | Mindfulness As A Path To Inner and Outer Happiness
Instructor: Bettina Heitmann, Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Description: Brain research confirms the power of mindfulness to affect and change our level of well‐being and happiness. Mindfulness [...]

Online | Tear Soup
Instructors: Nicole Espinosa, LCSW & Jeanne Schwertfeger, Resource/Adoptive Parent Description: Children in foster care and adoption suffer many losses. Itis essential that children get the [...]

Online | Teaching Your Kids About Financial Literacy & Privacy/Digital Footprint
In Partnership with Instructors: Taralyn Rose ‐ Manager, Financial Fitness & Coaching at Cal Coast Credit Union & Kue Lee ‐ Director of Targeted Outreach [...]

Online | Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders from a Trauma Lens
Instructor: Barb Clark, Adoptive Parent & Training Specialist at Families Rising Description: Many children coming into care were prenatally exposed to drug and/or alcohol. We [...]

Online | Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC)
Instructor: Charisma de los Reyes, MSW Description: Foster care is a pipeline for the Commercial and Sexual Exploitation of Children. In San Diego County alone, [...]

Online | Heal the Healer: Recognizing Overwhelm & Burnout
Instructor: Honor Medina, LMFT Description: Caring for children and families who have experienced trauma is rewarding but can also be emotionally taxing to our well‐being [...]

Online | TIPS Refresher
Instructors: Diana Macis, MSW & Kania Webster, Resource/Adoptive Parent Description: It may have been a while since you last took the 12‐hour Trauma Informed Pre‐Service [...]

Online | Top 10 Things You Need to Know about Baby Care
Instructors: MaryAnn Paschal & Kania Webster, Resource/Adoptive ParentS Description: Has it been a while since you have cared for or have had a newborn or [...]

En Línea | Estrés Tóxico
Instructores: Gisella Gomez, MSW Descripción: El taller ayudará a los cuidadores a tomar conciencia sobre cómo el estrés traumático afecta la salud física y emocional [...]