Tips for Transitions with Parent Coach Dana

(1 hour)

Transitions are challenging for many kids. Transitions can be extra challenging for kids who are sensitive, tend to be anxious, are neuro-diverse or have a history of early life trauma or ACEs. If you have a child who struggles with the many transitions that happen each day, then this webinar is for you. Join Parent Coach Dana for a one-hour webinar where you will learn learn tools to stop the power struggles and meltdowns that happen at those tricky transition times.

Parenting with Intention

(1 hour)

In this practical workshop you will:

• Discover your values, set intentions, and learn how this may help in your parenting challenges

• Explore the parent-over, under and with paradigms and become clear on how you want to approach parenting

• Practice some peaceful communication strategies to use in all relationships

Parent Detectives with Parent Coach Dana

(40 minutes)

Put on your detective hat and grab your notebook for clues! As parents, when we’re baffled by challenging behaviors in our kids, it can elicit many different feelings in us (perhaps anger, frustration, hopelessness, confusion or disgust come to mind). In this 40-minute recorded webinar, we will train our CURIOSITY about those behaviors and learn tools to help build future resilience in our kids.

Helpful Tips on Health Care

(1 hour)

Adoptive, Guardianship, Kinship, and Foster families in Wisconsin-Join us for this informative 1-hour recorded webinar about the ins and outs of Wisconsin Healthcare, presented by health care experts from Covering WI and DHS!

Ambiguous Loss

(1 hour and 30 minutes)

WISAPSP parents and professionals…plan on joining us for this fantastic webinar on Ambiguous Loss. Ambiguous loss is a framework for understanding any loss or grief that doesn’t involve death. It is one of the invisible wounds foster, kinship, and adoptive families are affected by daily. In this 1.5-hour training, you will understand ambiguous loss, why it matters, how it impacts your family, and simple, practical skills you can implement right away to support the children you love through this psychological pain.

Interview with an Author: Fred Nicora - Forbidden Roots

(1 hour)

Fred Nicora, gripping and engaging author, shares insights to his new book “Forbidden Roots, A Memoir of Late Discovery Adoption.” In October 2000, at the age of 41, Fred Nicora’s foundation was swept away by the slip of a tongue at a family gathering of about 250 extended family members, after his parents had died. This blunder ultimately led Nicora to the discovery that the family he had always known was not his biologically—and he was the only one who did not know. After six years of relentless searching, Fred was finally able to find some level of resolution as documented in his book.

Mindful Communication with Sarah Dimick

(1 hour)

This is a recorded webinar with Sarah Dimick, who will be talking to us about mindful communication! She will go over active and reflective listening, what mindful communication looks like, and give great examples of how you could implement the strategies covered in your home!