Best Practices Training Academy Workshop Menu
Menu of Offerings
Through its Best Practices Training Academy, the Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New York offers trainings for adoptive, foster and kinship caregivers, professionals, school districts and others on a variety of topics related to foster care, adoption, child development, family court, trauma and attachment. In keeping with the parent-led nature of the Coalition, trainings are offered from a parent’s perspective and are designed to be accessible to parents and professionals alike.
As the name of our Training Academy indicates, Coalition trainings are based on best practices. Our trainings are effective and engaging for parents and professionals and have been presented to community groups, at statewide meetings and national conferences. Workshops are generally 90 or more minutes in length. Our Reframing Parenting series has 10 and 18 hour options.
There is no charge for affiliated parent groups or, generally, for parent trainings in areas of the state served by the Coalition’s AGAPE program. The Coalition may, at its discretion and based on available funding, also provide initial trainings to local social service districts at no or nominal cost. For all others, we offer reasonable rates for training. Special requests can be considered upon request.
For information on how to become an affiliated parent group, please contact Amy Drayer, the Coalition’s Associate Executive Director of Programs, at 646-688-4321 ext 1009 or amy@affcny.org.
View the Workshops Below
ACES – the basics
Fulfill your New York State training requirements in Adverse Childhood Experiences with the seminar ACES – The Basics
Reframing Parenting
A structured support group training designed for parents raising children with adverse childhood experiences or difficult past histories.
Breaking Barriers; the Kinship Caregiver Experience
This workshop looks at the kinship journey through the “system” and presents real kinship testimonials from across New York state.
Not ADD, RAD or ADHD: The Circle of Trauma
In this workshop, we will walk participants through trauma, what it is, how it impacts the brain, how our children’s trauma impacts us and what we can do.
Family Court 101: Knowledge is Power
This training is for those seeking to understand the legal process related to the children in care.
Foster Parents Speak: Video Screening and Discussion
In this workshop, we’ll view Foster Parents Speak videos and discuss the challenges and rewards of being a foster parent.
Reasonable and Prudent Parenting
The training will walk foster parents through the Reasonable and Prudent Parenting Standard and discussing what caregivers need to know when making decisions.
Allegations Happen: Managing and Surviving the Situation
In this training we will break down Child Protective Services process.
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorders: What You Need to Know and What You Can Do
In this workshop, participants will learn what FASD and how it may affect children neurologically, intellectually and behaviorally.
Resiliency: Overcoming Trauma and Implications for Schools
This training for educators focuses on what school professionals should know about foster care and adoption including how incorporate ACES and how to create a trauma-informed classroom.
Struggle for Identity: Issues in Transracial and Transcultural Foster Care and Adoption
This training will feature Struggle for Identity, the Coalition’s award-winning twenty-minute documentary video on the topic, and ample time for discussion and questions.
Trauma Informed Parenting
This workshop will focus on why raising children not born to us requires different parenting strategies than the children born to us
Options for Relative Caregivers
This workshop provides an overview of all of the options available to kinship including differences in guardianship versus custody, Kinship Guardianship and the child-only or non-parent TANF grant,
Shared Parenting: Models for Collaboration
This workshop offers a discussion about the realities of shared parenting, offering tips and examples about how foster parents, birth parents and casework staff can work together.
Resiliency: What Is It and How to Build It
In this workshop, we’ll talk about what resiliency is and how we, as adults who care about children, can nurture and building resiliency in the children we care about.
Parenting to Heal the Traumatized Brain
This workshop will provide parents and professionals supporting families with evidence-based parenting tools to help children heal from adverse histories.
Coalition 101: All About Us
In this workshop, we introduce our audience to the Coalition, discuss who we are and walk through the services and support we provide.