Training for professionals is a critical component of a successful post permanency program. Supporting adoptive and guardianship families requires specialized knowledge and skills. When professionals have the training they need, they are better equipped to address the complex needs of the families they serve. Investing in training strengthens professional competence, builds confidence, and enhances the ability to make a meaningful impact.
See Below for a calendar of upcoming live trainings designed to support robust post permanency services.
In this interactive/skill based webinar, clinicians will explore strategies to: Increase a child's sense of safety by assisting adoptive parents to anticipate, prepare and trouble-shoot transitions and change to avoid or minimize acting out behaviors, support children to identify and regulate their feelings, teach adoptive parents to respond rather than react to children's behaviors using […]
2-Day Virtual Training with Dr. Ross Greene to reduce adult-child conflicts with proactive practical tools. 5/7 & 8/2026
This workshop supports Peer Partners, all are welcome to learn more about Attachment.
This therapeutic approach developed by a family therapy expert and attachment specialist addresses misalignment in the parent-child relationship. In this training course, students will be walked through the IAFT framework and provided therapeutic insight and concrete strategies to help families achieve meaningful and lasting change.
This workshop supports Peer Partners working in a climate of fear, stress, and immigration‑related pressure. It offers clear, trauma‑informed tools to manage secondary traumatic stress, understand PTSD, and build sustainable resilience. Through hands‑on practice and reflection, participants learn practical strategies to stay grounded, effective, and well in their roles.
This 90 minute webinar taught by Deb Schugg, lived expert and Family Coach at Kinship Center, A Member of Seneca Family of Agencies will focus on therapeutic parenting extending to moments when children and youth have made mistakes. Using these moments to shift behavior while protecting and healing the parent-child relationship will be discussed. Register […]
Part of a Four-Part Series with Tony Hynes, Ph.D. - Holidays Through the Eyes of Adoptees, this webinar will give insight into holidays from the experience of adoptees. Societal expectations around holiday celebrations often shape how adoptees feel they should respond, adding layers of guilt, shame, or isolation to what may already be a complicated […]
This therapeutic approach developed by a family therapy expert and attachment specialist addresses misalignment in the parent-child relationship. In this training course, students will be walked through the IAFT framework and provided therapeutic insight and concrete strategies to help families achieve meaningful and lasting change.
Adoptees, professionals and families, are invited to navigate the “in-between” spaces of transracial adoption, tackling the psychological weight of cultural dissonance and the profound search for self.Unlock the complex layers of the Black/transracial adoptee experience in this transformative 90-minute session, designed to move beyond surface-level narratives and into the heart of identity and healing. Free […]
Many children who have experienced developmental trauma face a range of challenges which may benefit from different approaches at different times or in combination. This session will consider how to make the most of what different models have to offer, while holding risks in mind, with a focus on DDP and Theraplay®. The By Your […]
