Virtual Regional Training: Setting Age-Appropriate Boundaries and Consequences
2022-05-17 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Region 14, GA, United States
Description:
What are Boundaries?
What are Consequences?
Why are Boundaries and Consequences
Important?
Why is it important for Boundaries and
Consequences be age appropriate?
Featuring:
Teresa Wright-Johnson Founder
Zaria’s Song and The Younger Years and Beyond
Certified Mental Health Trainer And Facilitator
*All Participants should RSVP separately even if you will be listening on the same device.

Virtual Regional Training: The Impact of Trauma on Behavior
2022-05-18 12:00 - 13:00 | Region 7, GA, United States
This virtual training is designed to provide participants information on how trauma plays a role in behavior.
All participants should RSVP separately.
Presented by:
Natasha Hope-Moriarty, LMSW

REAL TALk on Core Issues in Adoption Pt. 1
2022-05-18 19:00 - 20:00 | https://gacrs.org/courses/real-talk-on-anger-2/
GACRS is offering a Monthly Virtual Adoption Support Group featuring a New Topic each month presented by a trained adoption clinician. Real Talk is a non-therapeutic conversational experience about issues relevant to adoptive families. It is not presented as a time of therapy; it is for informational purposes only.
Join Chena Blanchard in this Two-Part discussion about the Core Issues in Adoption. (Loss, Rejection, Shame/Guilt, Grief, Identity, Intimacy, & Mastery/Control) Whatever the Journey that led you to adopt you may still have some unresolved feelings. Your experiences are valid and can help others through their Journy’s. We invite you to join us to dive into some of these core issues.
Presented by: Chena Blanchard
*All Participants should RSVP separately using their own accounts.
There is no pre test for this training.

Strategies for Parenting in Transracial Adoption
2022-05-19 19:00 - 20:00
CLASS FULL
This presentation will provide attendees with strategies for parenting in transracial adoptions. Adoptive parents will learn ways to support their child’s development of positive racial identity and survival skills to function in a multicultural society.
PRESENTER:
ERICA SLOCUM, Regional Adoption Coordinator
State Adoption Unit/MPLD Fellow

All Participants should register separately even if you will be listening together.

Virtual Regional Training: Resiliency and Coping: A Guide for Helping Families
2022-05-23 18:30 - 19:30 | Region 8, GA, United States
This workshop will explore the physical mental, emotional, and behavior reactions to stress and trauma. Resiliency is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or other significant sources of stress. Resiliency is the capacity to bounce back. Participants will also understand resilience and the six domains of resilience. By the end of the session, participants will have some practical activities to help youth build resilience skills.
*All Participants should RSVP even if you will be listening on the same device.

Webinar: The Dangers of Social Media
2022-05-25 19:00 - 20:00 | https://gacrs.org/courses/virtual-regional-training-the-dangers-of-social-media-2/
This virtual training is designed to provide participants information on the dangers that social media poses to teens and young children. Participants will be given information on those dangers as well as tips and tools to monitor their children’s internet usage.

All Participants should RSVP individually even if you will be listening on the same device.

Presented by:
Leslie Anderson
Adoption Resource Advisor

Cafe Chats: A Parent to Parent Support Group- May 2022
2022-05-26 19:00 - 20:00 | https://gacrs.org/courses/cafe-chats-a-virtual-parent-to-parent-support-group-2-2-2/
Join GACRS for a monthly virtual adoption support group- Café Chats. This event is for adoptive families who share one thing, the journey of adoption. And while adoption is rewarding it also has challenges. GACRS wants to provide a virtual platform for you to exchange information and learn from one another. It’s also your opportunity to share your experiences, what’s in your heart, the challenges, and the success of parenting an adopted child or children. Please see the event calendar for specific dates of each Café Chat- An Adoption Support Event.
All Participants should RSVP separately

Parenting Well: Mind and Body Stress Management Practices
2022-06-06 19:00 - 20:00 | https://gacrs.org/courses/parenting-well-post-pandemic-metal-wellness-2-2/
Parenting Well is a mental health and wellness educational and supportive space for foster, adoptive and kinship parents. Parenting Well focuses on the well-being of caregivers including their mental, emotional, and psychological health. It is not therapy but will provide psychoeducational information and strategies to help improve mental wellness.
This session will focus on tips and tools to manage stress and anxiety using body and mind centered practices. Participants will learn about and practice various somatic and meditative practices during the session.
Facilitator: Dianne Kelly, MS, LPC
Dianne Kelly is a licensed professional counselor in private practice. She has extensive professional experience in child welfare as well as personal lived experience as a parent, stepparent, and relative caregiver.
*All participants should RSVP separately even if you will be listening on the same device.

EPCAT Presents: CSAM Prevention Program Parent Workshops- A 3 Part Series
2022-06-08 19:00 - 20:00 | https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/tZwkc-yurDMrHNUNE7umBxRb5QsCsTqyUpSk/ics?icsToken=[REDACTED]
RSVPing for this event RSVP’s you for all 3
ECPAT-USA Presents:
CSAM Prevention Program Parent Workshops
A Free, Virtual, and Interactive 3-Part Series Covering:

You and Online Safety
Managing Difficult Conversations
Utilizing the Community as a Resources

Upon Completing all 3 workshops, participants receive a $25 gift card! Provide by ECPAT. You must attend all 3 workshops to receive the gift card. Workshops are on June 8, 15 and 22nd.
Be sure to RSVP by clicking RSVP and then “Finish”. All Participants must RSVP separately to qualify for the gift card. You only need to RSVP for the first event to be signed up for all 3.

Virtual Regional Training: Self-Care Strategies for Resilience
2022-06-09 18:30 - 20:00 | Region 1, Atlanta, GA, United States
In this presentation, we will learn a variety of ways to use mindfulness to practice better self-care and build resiliency. In the process, we will discover how this effort can increase our capacity to be more fully present – with ourselves, with our children, and with others in our lives. Through a combination of instructional material, discussion, and simple mindfulness exercises, participants will be offered some practical tools and skills they can start using right away. Self-care is the fuel we need to supply energy to navigate effectively through our lives and build resiliency to prevent burn-out in our relationships.
Presented by:
Angela Smith. LPC
*All Participants should RSVP separately and complete Pre-test Prior to training

Virtual Regional Training: Grief and Loss
2022-06-14 12:00 - 13:30 | Region 13, GA, United States
Grief is a deep sadness following a death or loss. How can you as parents best support a child and yourself through this difficult and challenging time?
This Session will cover how children grieve differently than adults and the basic tasks of mourning.
All Participants should RSVP Separately
Please complete the Pre Test Prior to the training by clicking the pre/post test and join meeting button and then Start Lesson.

Webinar: Roles and Responsibilities of the Guardian ad Litem (GAL)
2022-06-14 19:00 - 20:00 | https://gacrs.org/courses/webinar-circle-of-care-2/
Every child in dependency proceedings SHALL be appointed a Guardian Ad Litem. So what is a GAL required to do by law in the best interest of the child? What should a GAL do as best practice? Join to learn about and discuss the roles and responsibilities of the GAL.
Presented by
Judge Ashley Wilcott
*All Participants should register Separately even if you will be listening on one device.

REAL TALK on Core Issues in Adoption Pt. 2
2022-06-16 19:00 - 20:00 | https://gacrs.org/?post_type=courses&p=19940&preview=true

Cafe Chats: A Parent to Parent Support Group- June
2022-06-23 12:00 - 13:00 | https://gacrs.org/?post_type=courses&p=19582&preview=true
Join GACRS for a monthly virtual adoption support group- Café Chats. This event is for adoptive families who share one thing, the journey of adoption. And while adoption is rewarding it also has challenges. GACRS wants to provide a virtual platform for you to exchange information and learn from one another. It’s also your opportunity to share your experiences, what’s in your heart, the challenges, and the success of parenting an adopted child or children. Please see the event calendar for specific dates of each Café Chat- An Adoption Support Event.
All Participants should RSVP separately.

Webinar: Circle of Care
2022-06-27 19:00 - 20:00 | https://gacrs.org/courses/webinar-circle-of-care/
Having a Trauma-Informed Lens in the Home. Empathy is not just a skill; it’s a broad and deep sense of care and humanity—and that’s what we need to develop in children. When a youth discloses an experience that may have caused trauma, you as a guardian have to be prepared in your reaction. This webinar will showcase how to communicate, accept, and validate these emotions in others providing a safe, open, trauma-informed home.
Presented by:
Janae Roberts, MPH, CHES
*All Participants should RSVP separately even if you will be listening on the same device.

Virtual Regional Training: Financial Planning for Your Special Needs Child
2022-06-28 18:00 - 19:00 | Region 12, GA, United States
This virtual training is designed to provide participants information on the importance of financial planning for special needs children. Topics will include; wills, special needs trust, naming a guardian, naming a trustee, life insurance, and building your savings
Presented by: Jeff Anderson, ABJ

Virtual Regional Training: Knowing When to Ask for Help And How To Utilize Mental Health Services
2022-06-28 19:30 - 20:30 | Region 10, GA, United States
Training will discuss the follow topics:

Stressors of Caregivers

The importance of MH services
How to Navigate through services and resources
MH through a child’s point of view

Presented by:
Mario Mitchell, BA, M.S Psy.
Mental Health Counselor

Mindful Self-Care: A Guardianship Caregiver Event
2022-06-29 19:00 - 20:00 | https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqfuGrpzMrGNz8DrkxqtGtSxY2Rkkmbc4J
Mindful Self-Care offers and overview of why self-care is especially important for Guardian Caregivers. We will discuss different ways to apply self-care principals in daily living.

Presented by:
Shanta Hayes, LMSW
Mindfulness and Self-Care Coach
Founder and CEO of SL Hayes Group, LLC

Virtual Regional Training: Building Resiliency in Children
2022-07-07 19:00 - 20:30 | Region 3, Altanta, GA, United States
Resilience is the ability to recover from difficulties and children more than ever, need to develop resilience in today’s world. This session will cover the seven character traits that develop resistance and how you can best nurture it.
All Participants should RSVP even if you will be listening on the same device.

Webinar: Heart-Centeredness, Neurobiology of Love, and Heart Rate Variability - To Ease The Stressed Brain."
2022-07-12 12:00 - 13:00 | https://gacrs.org/courses/webinar-heart-centeredness-neurobiology-of-love-and-heart-rate-variability-to-ease-the-stressed-brain/
Learn about the serious science behind the Neurobiology of Love; explore the healing power of Heart-Centeredness of parents, teachers, and children; learn what Heart Rate Variability is and how it can impact your child’s learning, growth, and development. Walk away from this training with solid knowledge, skills, and insight to use your power of Love and Heart-Centeredness as a practical scientific and technical tool to boost your child’s behavior, mood, mental wellbeing, and development.
Presented by: Darleen Claire Wodzenski, MS ESE, MA CMHC, QPPE, PhD, LPC, NCC
*All Participants should RSVP separately.

Virtual Regional Training: Trauma Systems Therapy
2022-07-12 18:30 - 19:30 | Region 11, GA, United States
Training will discuss the follow topics:
*Trauma effects
*Shift thinking
*Role of a caregiving team
*Trauma Response
Presented by:
LaTanya Keaton, LPC
Mental Health Therapist

Webinar: Special Needs and Medically Fragile Children, What You Need to Know
2022-07-20 19:00 - 20:00 | https://gacrs.org/courses/webinar-special-needs-and-medically-fragile-children-what-you-need-to-know/
Special Needs and Medically Fragile Children: What you need to know, what you think you know, and what others should know about caring for, fostering, or adopting. Navigating services and daily living requires a special set of skills in providing for special needs and medically fragile children. Learn about resources, services, and how to navigate potential landmines.
Presented by: Ashley Willcott
J.D., Certified Child Welfare Law Specialist
Top Legal Analyst, Consultant, Juvenile Court Judge &Trial Attorney

Cafe Chat- July "Struggles vs Strengths when parenting"
2022-07-21 19:00 - 20:00 | https://gacrs.org/courses/cafe-chats-a-virtual-parent-to-parent-support-group-2-2-2-2-2/
Join GACRS for a monthly virtual adoption support group- Café Chats. This event is for adoptive families who share one thing, the journey of adoption. And while adoption is rewarding it also has challenges. GACRS wants to provide a virtual platform for you to exchange information and learn from one another. It’s also your opportunity to share your experiences, what’s in your heart, the challenges, and the success of parenting an adopted child or children. Please see the event calendar for specific dates of each Café Chat- An Adoption Support Event.

Virtual Regional Training: Helping Your Child Cope with Grief
2022-07-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Region 12, GA, United States
Children grieve differently than adults. This training will help participants learn the key differences, how to recognize grief in children, and how to help children through the grief process. This training will also discuss the 5 stages of grief.
Presented by:
Natasha Hope-Moriarty, LMSW
*All participants should RSVP separately even if you will be viewing on the same device.

Virtual Regional Training: Parenting Difficult Behaviors
2022-07-25 19:00 - 20:30 | Region 4, Atlanta, GA, United States
This Training will assist parents in identifying the possible causes of difficult behavior, and discuss techniques that may be effective.
Please Join Us!!
Presented by:
Linda Watson,
BA, CEO

REAL TALK on Flight
2022-07-28 19:00 - 19:45 | https://gacrs.org/courses/real-talk-on-anger-3/
In April, we talked about anger – how our children feel and express it, and how we do too. In July, we’ll spend time talking about another common response to stress or threat – flight! We’ll look at how temperament and life experience combine to influence how and when people feel the urge to run, what that can look like in our children and in ourselves, and explore ways to return to feeling safe.
Join, L. Kathryn Smith, LCSW in a discussion about flight. Come prepared to share your experiences.
*All participants should RSVP Separately
** there are no pre tests for Real Talks

Virtual Regional Trainings: Parenting for the Future
2022-08-04 19:00 - 20:15 | https://gacrs.org/courses/virtual-regional-training-parenting-for-the-future-2/
Parenting for the Future: You have a short time frame to prepare kids for a challenging and ever-changing future. How do you parent so kids are self-confident, motivated, and ready for the real world? Learn how to parent using healthy strategies without resorting to threats, nagging or exhausting power struggles.
Presented by:
Lynne Watts, LPC
*All Participants should RSVP

Webinar: Family Bonding of New Family Formations
2022-08-09 12:00 - 13:00 | https://gacrs.org/courses/webinar-family-bonding-of-new-family-formations/
What happens when we have to “make a family” sometimes from scratch? Learn how to use intentional activities and discussion to help new family formations bond. Understand the unique challenges of creating this family. Grief, past trauma, and prior losses can all affect the family and how it rebuilds. Come and learn the “ingredients” of building a family and make your own recipe that works for your family.
*All Participants should RSVP separately
Presented by Liz Carson, Kates Club

Virtual Regional Training: Parenting-Self-Care
2022-08-09 18:30 - 19:30 | https://gacrs.org/courses/virtual-regional-training-parenting-self-care/
Join us as talk about self-care through the areas of physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional on a daily basis.
Presented by:
Becca Stackhouse Morson, M.S., CFLE
All Participants should RSVP separately.

Virtual Regional Training: Strategies to Deal with Lying
2022-08-11 17:30 - 19:00 | Region 1, Atlanta, GA, United States
While all of us tell lies now and then, it can be problematic behavior in parenting kids from hard places. in this training, you will learn some reasons why kids lie as well as some practice strategies to deal with the
behavior and maintain your sanity.
Presented by:
Christine Dalton, LCSW
*All Participants should RSVP Separately
