On-Demand Learning

In this webinar, you will learn what Generational Trauma is and how it can play a role in your adoptee's life. This type of trauma is passed down both genetically and environmentally. We will explore how to work with this type of trauma in the moment, how you can tend to yourself as the caretaker, and how to come from a more understanding and conscious place.

Feeling safe is about more than just being away from dangerous and abusive situations and having needs met regularly. For kids with trauma histories, felt safety is vital! This webinar explains how the rhythms and routines developed in your home can create calm and healing for your foster / adopted child. (May 2021)

We all have a voice inside that discourages us. In this discussion, we explore the origins of that voice, as well as what we can do to recognize its presence and prevent it from causing further discouragement. (June 2022)

About the Facilitator: Adam Hillard is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a TBRI® Practitioner with Raise the Future. He also operates a small private practice in Grand Junction, where he sees children and families for treatment. He lives on the Western Slope with his 16-year-old daughter and furry friends. He enjoys playing on the ski slopes when it is cold outside. When it is warm, he enjoys golfing, working in the yard, or just being outside. Adam is passionate about helping others learn the tools that they need to live their best lives!

This workshop encourages recognition and respect for children and their loss, as well as their individual journey through grief. The webinar encourages participants to determine how they can enhance the healing of grieving among children/youth and avoid potential hindrances to the process. The presenter shares tools to help children/youth grieve in a way that will assist their capacity to grow into adults able to adjust to losses in the future.

Do you feel like your home has become a war zone and you are battle-fatigued? Have you tried everything, and nothing seems to work?

In this webinar, you will:

• Learn techniques in communication that can help a child feel felt
• Gain a better understanding of a child’s inner experiences
• Learn interactions and communications that can help children develop better self-awareness, coping skills, and the ability to identify triggers that lead to negative reactions/behaviors
• Identify activities that help children learn to self-regulate and express strong emotions in more appropriate ways
• Gain a better understanding of disturbing behaviors, such as lying, manipulation, physical/verbal aggression, forgetfulness, sexual acting out and more

Children in foster care and adoption systems often have complex histories. Their stories can be difficult to hear as caregivers, and difficult to explain to them in developmentally appropriate ways, even when we understand they have a right to know the details of their history. This webinar will help you navigate the language to assist them in understanding the details of their story at various ages, compassionately support them in sharing their story with people they trust, and manage your own emotional needs when listening to a child share the difficult aspects of their story.

This specialized training explores how and why a parent/caregiver or caseworker should talk with young people about the many tough topics that are parts of their lives and need to be discussed.

The two-hour webinar addresses the following important objectives:

• Participants will understand the serious nature of the information that needs to be told to foster/adoptive children during their childhood.
• Participants will understand the need to be honest with children.
• Participants will understand how to talk to children based on their developmental age, not their chronological age.
• Participants will understand the importance of the need to help children of different ages express both their feelings and their needs, in reference to their triadic lives - with biological, foster, and adoptive families.
• Participants will know how to construct a plan for talking to children of different ages about difficult topics.

Parenting is not for the faint of heart. From toddler meltdowns to teenage drama, our kids' behaviors often push our buttons, causing a cascade of big feelings and sometimes reactions we as parents want to avoid. We’ll explore the old wounds that parenting often reopens, the thoughts that sabotage us as parents, and adult regulation strategies that can help you stay focused, centered, and in the zone – even when your kid is falling apart. (May 2020)