Many of our Caregiver Trainings are appropriate for all caregivers, including parents in traditional home settings, foster/adoptive parents, daycare providers, and alternative care and respite providers. Classes are designed to help build competencies to meet the needs of children. Many of our trainings are intended to help caregivers learn about child development, child specific trauma needs, and to help caregivers access resources and supports to help families thrive and remain whole.
If you need more information or have questions about Caregiver Training, please contact us.
Upcoming Caregiver Trainings
Foster Parent Meeting: Recognizing and Supporting Children Who Have Experienced Sexual Abuse: A Guide for Foster Parents
This is a time to meet other Focus on Youth foster parents, support and network with each other, enjoy a meal together, while learning and growing in your role as a foster parent.
Foster Parent Support Group Webinar: Legal Issues and Ethics
This support group is designed for Focus on Youth foster parent to connect and support one another.
Communicable Disease- Protecting Your Family's Health Webinar
This course is recommended for all Focus on Youth foster parents. The primary purpose of this training course is to educate caregivers in identifying signs and symptoms of illness and contagious conditions, protect themselves from exposure, learn how to respond to an exposure risk, and how to transfer their knowledge to educate family and children in the home. The course content and activities will prepare caregivers to make appropriate decisions about preventing and educating on communicable disease transmission.
Meets Required Topic: Resource Readiness: Prevention, Recognition, and Management of Communicable Diseases
QPR Gatekeeper Suicide Prevention
QPR stands for Question, Persuade, and Refer — the 3 simple steps anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide.
Empowering Voices: Navigating Educational Advocacy
This workshop will present information on how to advocate for your child in the school setting.
Support After Dark: Parenting from a Full Cup & Noticing our Own Needs
Support After Dark is a free support group, available to the community, that helps parents build resilience, prioritize self-care, and strengthen family connections in a supportive environment.
Poison Prevention at Home
This course will give participants a overview of poison safety for the home.
Medication Management for Foster Parents
This course goes over FOY's expectations surrounding medication management.
Foster Parent Appreciation : The Power of Connection
This is a time to meet other Focus on Youth foster parents, support and network with each other, enjoy a meal together, while learning and growing in your role as a foster parent.
Foster Parent Support Group Webinar: Direct Placements
This support group is designed for Focus on Youth foster parent to connect and support one another.
TCC Module 3: Becoming a Trauma Competent Caregiver: The Journey WEBINAR
This workshop will review characteristics of a trauma competent caregiver.
American Red Cross Adult and Pediatric First Aid, CPR and AED
This workshop will allow for participants to become certified in Infant, Child, and Adult CPR and First Aid. The certification is provided by American Red Cross.
Meets Required Topic: CPR & First Aid
In-Depth Training in TBRI
Participants will explore the principles of the TBRI approach, understand the impact of risk factors and adverse childhood experiences, and learn effective engagement strategies, including regulation techniques and fostering felt safety.
Support After Dark Virtual Support Group: Healing Through Action: Practical Tools for Parents
Support After Dark is a free support group, available to the community, that helps parents build resilience, prioritize self-care, and strengthen family connections in a supportive environment.
Foster Parent Meeting: Beyond the Birds and the Bees
This is a time to meet other Focus on Youth foster parents, support and network with each other, enjoy a meal together, while learning and growing in your role as a foster parent.
Foster Parent Support Group Webinar
This support group is designed for Focus on Youth foster parent to connect and support one another.
Co-Occurring Disorders: The Relationship Between Addiction and Mental Illness
This presentation will address the growing body of knowledge of this relationship and the role that mental illness and addiction (chemical & behavioral) have with one another.
Meets Required Topic: Substance Abuse, Trauma, Elective
ODJFS Rules, Focus On Youth Policies, and MEPA Standards WEBINAR
This workshop will present information on the current ODJFS rules, the overview of the MEPA rules and applications, and Focus on Youth, Inc. Foster Parent Policies and MEPA Standards as it impacts policy.
Reasonable and Prudent Parent Standard
This workshop will provide participants with a greater understanding of the concept of normalcy, agency expectations, and the responsibilities of their role as a foster parent.
Meets Required Topic: Elective
QPR Gatekeeper Suicide Prevention
QPR stands for Question, Persuade, and Refer — the 3 simple steps anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide.This training is provided at no cost as a service to the community!
