Learn about the life of a Dependency and Neglect case with through a legal lens.

Learn effective strategies to regulate your own nervous system in order to help children feel safe in their environment and their bodies.

Teach children how to self-regulate by first providing an understanding of how their brain and nervous system works.

Learn practical and effective body-based sensory strategies to help your child stay regulated.

Caregivers will learn about the latest research in relational neuroscience — including polyvagal theory, regulation theory, and the neurosequential model of development, and how to incorporate this into their daily lives.

Hard conversations are part of every family’s journey—especially when multiple people are supporting the same child. Whether you’re a foster parent, kinship caregiver, or biological parent, communication can quickly become overwhelming when stress, trauma, and different perspectives are involved. This training offers practical, trauma-informed tools to help you navigate those moments with more confidence and less conflict. You’ll learn how to understand what’s underneath behaviors and reactions, communicate in ways that reduce defensiveness, and move conversations toward repair instead of escalation. We’ll share simple frameworks and real-life scripts you can use with children, co-parents, and professionals—so you’re not left guessing what to say when it matters most. Designed for families navigating foster, kinship, or reunification, this session supports stronger relationships and greater stability for the children you care about.

At just a young age, Liz did something most adults struggle to do — she reported her own abuse to protect her siblings. In this powerful one-hour session, Liz shares what it means to survive foster care, fight for your siblings, and grow up carrying the weight of your own rescue. This is not a training about policy. It’s a story about courage, sibling separation, identity, and reunion — told by someone who lived it.

Lying is a common but deeply misunderstood protective behavior, especially in children with trauma histories. What often appears as manipulation or defiance is more accurately a fear-based survival response rooted in a child’s nervous system. In this training, Robyn Gobbel reframes lying through a trauma-informed, neurobiological, and relational lens. Caregivers and professionals will gain a deeper understanding of what’s happening beneath the behavior—not just how to stop it. Participants will learn how to respond in ways that build safety, trust, and connection rather than fear-based compliance. This session moves beyond short-term behavior management into relationship-based healing. Attendees will leave with practical tools, greater clarity, and a compassionate framework for long-term change.

In this one-hour, conversation-style session, foster care advocate Amber Chiapetto shares her lived experience in foster care — reflecting on what helped, what hurt, and what healing truly looks like from a youth’s perspective. The session includes personal storytelling followed by an open, moderated Q&A, offering foster parents and caregivers honest insight to help create safer, more supportive, and more healing homes.

Learn simple, powerful tools to stay grounded, build trust, and model resilience—because when you choose calm and connection, kids learn they can too.