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Anxiety in children doesn’t always look like worry—it can show up as defiance, withdrawal, tantrums, or control battles. For foster parents, understanding the root of these behaviors is key to responding with both empathy and structure.

In this practical and supportive workshop, you’ll learn how anxiety impacts the brain and behavior, especially in children who have experienced trauma or disruption. We’ll explore concrete tools for calming the nervous system, setting effective boundaries, and helping kids feel safe—even when their behavior is anything but.

You'll leave with:

• A deeper understanding of what anxiety looks like in kids
• Tools to de-escalate moments of distress
• Strategies for building trust and emotional regulation over time
• This course equips foster parents with the insight and skills to respond to anxiety-driven behaviors with confidence, compassion, and consistency.

This training module addresses food insecurity in children in care, offering caregivers an understanding of how trauma and instability contribute to food-related anxieties. It provides trauma-sensitive strategies for meeting children’s nutritional needs, reducing food-related stress, and fostering a healthy relationship with food.

Join author and trainer Lindsey Martin, LCSW, for this virtual training that explores the importance of family traditions and rituals in creating stability, connection, and belonging for children—especially those impacted by trauma or in foster care. Drawing from her book Letters to Jesus: A Christmas Tradition, Lindsey will share practical, no-cost ways to establish meaningful holiday rituals that focus on faith, foster healing, and build lasting memories. Participants will leave with tools and ideas to create holiday moments that comfort, connect, and point children toward hope.

TBRI is an attachment-based, trauma-informed intervention that is designed to meet the complex needs of vulnerable children. TBRI uses:

• Empowering Principles to address physical needs
• Connecting Principles for attachment needs
• Correcting Principles to disarm fear-based behaviors

TBRI intervention is based on years of attachment, sensory processing, and neuroscience research. It is designed for children from “hard places” such as abuse, neglect, and/or trauma. Because of their histories, it is often difficult for these children to trust the loving adults in their lives, which often results in perplexing behaviors. TBRI offers practical tools for caregivers, or anyone who works with children, to see the “whole child” in their care and help that child reach his highest potential.

Maybe you signed up for reunification, but reunification is not happening for your child. Maybe you had hoped to adopt but now the child is leaving. Maybe you’re happy for reunification but do not feel 100% that things are resolved to ensure a child’s safety. There can be a lot of emotions that surround an outcome of a foster care case even if you agree with what’s happening. Come support each other and learn how to move forward with whatever the outcome is before you regarding the kids you have come to love.

This training module is designed to help foster parents and caregivers manage the challenges and opportunities that arise when fostering children of different age ranges simultaneously. The goal is to equip foster families with practical strategies for meeting the diverse emotional, physical, and developmental needs of children at varying stages of growth, while maintaining family cohesion and harmony.  This course is taught by Jon Hester.  Jon is a Trauma Therapist, Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional, Certified Maxwell Leadership Coach, Certified DISC Behavioral Analyst, Career Coach and Counselor, Life Coach, and Trainer.

You remember from training that many of these birth parents come from broken homes themselves and are only repeating a cycle where they know no different. your head knowledge tells you one thing, but your heart is having a hard time loving on birth families through their hard when you see what the children are going through. Let’s discuss how to deal with emotions surrounding birth families and setting up boundaries for yourself if needed so that you can remain respectful and supportive. This course is taught by Anne Keller. Anne is a LCSW, Therapist, SAFE Certified Home Study Consultant, and FaithBridge Trainer.