May 2025

Online| TIPS #855Z
**This series has been canceled** TIPS is the 12-hour pre-service training program that is required prior to being approved as a Resource Parent by the [...]

In Person | Embracing Your Child’s Heritage
Description: Especially relevant for those who plan to adopt cross-culturally, this class will broaden your awareness of race as an ongoing issue of an individual’s development [...]

Online | Foster to Forever Support Group: Adopting From Foster Care
Meets every 3rd Saturday of each month **No Meeting in February ** An opportunity to meet with other foster/adoptive families to share experiences, discuss the [...]

Online | Spring Valley Support Group: Healing After Physical Abuse
Meets every 3rd Monday of the month **No meetings in January, February, and June** Support Group Leader: Valentine "Tina" Carmichael Healing After Physical Abuse: Healing from [...]

En Línea | Adopción Por Parientes
Diseñado para quienes están adoptando a un niño de un pariente Descripción: Explora los cambios de vida, cambio de personalidad y las relaciones con los [...]

Online | First Aid / CPR
These classes include First Aid for infants, children, and adults and CPR. They are co-sponsored by the Foster Care Education Program and the local foster [...]

Complexities of Grief, Loss and Trauma
Presented By Foster, Adoptive & Kinship Care Education Program & San Diego Youth Services. Instructor: Wendy Kessler is a Grief Specialist. She is credentialed as [...]

En Línea | Primeros Auxilios en Salud Mental: Habilidades Básicas para Reconocer y Responder a Problemas de Salud Mental
Instructores: Representantes de Scripps Mercy Hospital’s Well‐Being Center Esta presentación está diseñada para proporcionar a los padres adoptivos herramientas esenciales para reconocer y responder a [...]

Online | Kinship Adoption
This class is for relatives adopting only Description: Designed for those adopting a relative’s child. This class explores life changes, changing roles, and relationships with [...]

Online |Allied Gardens #2 Support Group: Long Term Consequences of Child Abuse & Neglect
Meets every 3rd Tuesday of each month **No meeting October & November** Leader: Lisa de las Alas Long Term Consequences of Child Abuse & Neglect: [...]