Professional Trainings & Workshops

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As a leader in our industry, we are dedicated to helping child welfare and mental health professionals develop their skills through advanced training and consultation.

We Specialize in the following professional trainings:

Permanency-focused foster care, concurrent planning, and adoption
Foster/adoption
Kinship care
Transracial adoption
Clinical issues in kinship care and adoption
Adoption agency administration and technical issues
Family finding and engagement
Trauma-informed parenting and therapeutic support
Nurtured Heart Approach® training

RFA FAMILY EVALUATION TRAINING
TRAINING FOR ADOPTION COMPETENCY (TAC)
WISE-UP
UNDERSTANDING TRAUMA: RELATIONSHIPS MATTER
NURTURED HEART APPROACH®

The purpose of this training is to provide county child welfare staff, supervisors and probation staff with additional skill development to conduct meaningful and timely family evaluations. In addition, we will also address incorporating the information into the written report, as required to approve Resource Families.

Upcoming Training Dates

Wayfinder partners with The Center for Adoption Support and Educations (C.A.S.E.) and is the only TAC-certified site in California. TAC is an intensive training specifically designed to provide mental health and child welfare professionals with the clinical knowledge and skills needed to offer quality mental health services to:

Adopted children youth & adults
Children preparing for adoption
Birth parents and extended family members
Prospective adoptive parents
Adoptive families

Download the TAC TRAINING FLYER for more information.

Submit Application | TAC Training – May 2023

For more information contact: LFTACTraining@WayfinderFamily.org

WISE-UP is workshop created by the Center for Adoption, Support and Education. In this workshop participants will explore how to talk about adoption, birth family and other tough subjects. WISE-UP, is a nationally recognized training created to help children and their parents answer questions they might get about being adopted using the WISE acronym.

Participants will explore what children understand about foster care and adoption at various ages and how they can take pride in who they are.

Walk Away from bullies
It’s Private
Share parts of their stories with safe people
Educate others about adoption

No current trainings scheduled, please check back in the future.

The Nurtured Heart Approach® is a relationship-focused methodology founded strategically in The 3 Stands™ for helping children (and adults) build their Inner Wealth® and use their intensity in successful ways. It has become a powerful way of awakening the inherent greatness in all children while facilitating parenting and classroom success. The essence of the Approach is a set of core methodologies originally developed for working with the most difficult children. It has a proven impact on every child, including those who are challenged behaviorally, socially and academically. The Nurtured Heart Approach has also been shown to create transformative changes in children diagnosed with ADHD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Reactive Attachment Disorder and other behavioral, emotional and anxiety related symptoms. Even children experiencing social cognitive challenges, like Autism Spectrum Disorder and Asperger Syndrome greatly benefit from the Approach, reducing the need for traditional mental health and medical interventions” – Children’s Success Foundation www.childrenssuccessfoundation.org.

No current trainings scheduled, please check back in the future.

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