Calendar of Events

“What are They Thinking?!”: How to Support Grieving Kids from 6 to 11 Years

January 31, 2025 @ 07:30 am  Free Children in this stage of development are learning to navigate many structures, obstacles, challenges, and relationships.  Adding grief into the mix brings them additional stressors to navigate, but they don’t always have the skills or awareness to do so successfully.  Join us to learn about how children in this age range view the ...

Families Moving Forward Specialist Training (PAE & FASD)

Families Moving Forward (FMF) Specialist Training, 6 day training February 10, 11, 18, 24 and March 3, 10, 2025 (depending on training size, possible training date of March 14 or 17) from 10:30 am – 4:30 pm EST. $2,500.00 – Submit your application today!  The deadline is January 20, 2025.  There is no fee to apply.  By completing the “registration” ...

Tools for Working with Families: Family Violence February 2025

Family work often involves working with families where violence is occurring, whether we realize it or not. The dynamics of family violence can be quiet, hidden, and secretive, or obvious, acknowledged, and visible. Violence may include physical aggression, verbal abuse, or psychological harm. This can occur between intimate partners, parents and children, siblings, or it may be multigenerational. Authorities may ...

Attachment: Knowledge, Tools and Interventions to Promote/Repair Security February 2025

In this webinar, participants will learn how to recognize markers in the dyad that define the attachment relationship and the infant?s developing stress response system. Using an observational framework and tool, participants will learn how to observe the caregiver?s behavior pattern when their infant cues distress. Once completed, the tool can then be actively used to support the caregiver to ...

The Essentials of Reflective Parenting February 2025

In this webinar we will discuss the basic components of reflective parenting, which are manifest in parents? behavioral sensitivity as well as their capacity for reflective functioning (PRF). Both are evidence of the parents? capacity to mentalize or imagine what the child is thinking and feeling and respond accordingly, particularly in moments of high intensity arousal (both positive and negative). ...

ADDRESSING COMPLEX BEHAVIORS TRAINING

ADDRESSING COMPLEX BEHAVIORS TRAINING Supporting Neurodiversity: Utilizing FASCETS Neurobehavioral Model The Alaska Center for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) is sponsoring this training with generous support from the Alaska Center for Resource Families (ACRF). Trainings will be offered in Anchorage, Juneau, and Fairbanks, with trainers Jenn Wagaman and Tami Eller. See details below. To register, or for questions, please email the ...

Tools for Working with Families: Substance Use in Families February 2025

It’s safe to assume that as you work with families, you will be supporting families where substance use disorders are an issue. These concerns are a pervasive, ongoing challenge for many families in Alaska. In this session, you will develop an understanding of use disorders and what makes changing behavior so difficult. We will look at approaches to helping families ...

Case management Series Part 2: Intake Process February 2025

An in-depth dive into the first phase of case management, the intake phase. Suitable for both new and experienced case managers, this training will explore the intake process, gathering collateral information, and the first face to face meeting, as well as documentation skills.

ADDRESSING COMPLEX BEHAVIORS TRAINING

ADDRESSING COMPLEX BEHAVIORS TRAINING Supporting Neurodiversity: Utilizing FASCETS Neurobehavioral Model The Alaska Center for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) is sponsoring this training with generous support from the Alaska Center for Resource Families (ACRF). Trainings will be offered in Anchorage, Juneau, and Fairbanks, with trainers Jenn Wagaman and Tami Eller. See details below. To register, or for questions, please email the ...

Training on the FASCETS Neurobehavioral Model- 6wks (12 CEs)

Training on the FASCETS Neurobehavioral Model Thursdays, March 13 – April 17, 2025, 12 pm-2 pm ESTCost: $310 until 02/18, 12 CEs $30 for Florida LCSW, LMHC, LMFT, and MCSW, Certificates provided for self-reporting for others DESCRIPTION:Neurobehavioral Conditions including FASD: Understanding & Application of the FASCETS Brain-Based Approach This training provides information about Fetal Alcohol/Neurobehavioral Conditions (FA/NB) and the effects of ...

Case Management Series Part 3: Needs Assessment March 2025

This training explores the assessment phase of case management and is useful for both new and experienced practitioners. Needs assessments in case management are explored at both the micro and the macro level and the elements of needs assessments are reviewed in depth. Learning Objectives: