Description: This informative workshop uses fun games and activities to teach foster parents at least twenty practical language and action skills for building children’s self‐esteem. Parents learn the difference between praise and encouragement and how to build self‐esteem without creating “praise junkies or egotistical self‐centered children. These techniques also increase children’s confidence and resistance to peer pressure and can prevent and diffuse sibling rivalry and competition.

Registration will close on Monday, September 18, 2023, at 7am

The Foster-Adoptive Parents Toolshop® training series is a comprehensive 30+ hour evidence-based, trauma informed parenting curriculum for foster and kinship caregivers and adoptive parents. The entire series will be offered over the next 8 months, September 2022, June 2023 and will be taught by the curriculum’s author Jody Johnston Pawel, LSW, CFLE, CTSS.

While each individual workshop is valuable as a stand-alone workshop, when combined they create a parenting system called The Universal Blueprint® for Parenting Success. You can use this universal system to prevent common parenting challenges and plan personalized responses and solutions to those that arise, based on the child, circumstance, and family involved. The series offers an overview of the system and its tools, plus the in-depth workshops in order, so they build on each other.

Don’t worry if you can’t take them all, you can take one, some or as many as you wish! The Series will be offered on the 2nd and 4th Mondays from September 2022 to June 2023 from 3-6pm. Please note there are some 2- part trainings. You must attend both sessions to get credit.

To see a flyer with a complete list of Jody Johnston-Pawel classes, click here 

Guest Instructor: Jody Johnston-Pawel, LSW, CFLE

Jody Johnston Pawel is a Licensed Social Worker in the State of Ohio and a Certified Family Life Educator. She is the author of the award-winning The Parent’s Toolshop® book and Founder/CEO of the Relationship Toolshop® International Training Institute. LLC.

***Please Note: This class will be facilitated on the online platform called Zoom. Internet access and access to a computer/laptop/tablet/smartphone is required to attend.

The link to attend this class will be provided at registration.

Please follow the link below for a brief tutorial on how to sign up for a free Zoom account.

Zoom User Guide