WEBINARS
Recordings of webinar presentations and accompanying materials.
Effective Home/School Communication, Virtually! webinar
Broadcast on September 23, 2020, this FFF webinar features director Kelly Henderson and public school educator Jennifer West discussing how families can best communicate with school personnel during virtual learning.
Webinar recording
Webinar presentation slides
All About Me info sheet template
All About Me info sheet sample
Safe Virtual Learning: Screens and Special Needs webinar
Originally broadcast on September 9, 2020, this session offers participants an overview of risks to children from internet predators, as well as steps families can take to ensure cybersafety for all children, including those with special needs.
Recording of Safe Virtual Learning webinar
Handout 5 Sexting
Handout 4 Special Needs
Handout 3 Tween Tips and Netsmartz
Handout 2 Internet safety
Handout 1 safe virtual learning
Learning at Home in a Trauma Sensitive Environment webinar and discussion
Broadcast on August 19, 2020, this brief webinar and discussion by FFF’s Beth Spivack, MSW covers trauma basics and offers strategies for supporting parents/caregivers and children in understanding stress responses and how to approach fall’s virtual learning using a trauma sensitive approach.
Presentation slides
Recording of Webinar
Our Shared Space –A Home and Virtual Classroom webinar and discussion
Recorded on August 12, 2020, a brief webinar with Lisa Geraci Rigoni, of The Organizing Mentors, about how to structure your home space for mutual working and learning needs this fall!
Presentation Slides
Recording of Our Shared Space webinar
Supporting Positive Behaviors during Learning at Home webinar/discussion
Recorded on August 5, 2020, this brief webinar covers some positive behavior support basics as we think about returning to virtual learning in fall. Presented by Kelly Henderson, Executive Director, FFF.
Slides presented
Webinar recording
A Conversation between Families & Educators: Strengthening Strategies for a Socially Distant Summer! webinar
Recorded 6 17 20, featuring Jennifer West and FFF’s Kelly Henderson. Handouts include slides, a list of social emotional learning strategies, lists of virtual support groups and summer camps/programs, and a handout from the Attachment and Trauma Network.
Recording of Conversation webinar
Social Emotional Learning strategies from Jennifer West
Summer 2020 Camps and Programs- virtual and in person
Attachment and Trauma Network Social Distancing Infographic
Planning the High School Transition to Post-Secondary Education webinar recording
A 35 minute discussion about transitioning from high school to college and post-high school settings, with expert guest Annie Tulkin and hosted by FFF.
Getting Ready to Help Your Child Learn at Home video (Less Than 5)
This Less Than 5 Minute (or at least close to 5 minutes!) lesson features some suggestions for parents and caregivers taking on teaching tasks at home during the COVID crisis.
Video Less Than 5 lesson on Getting Ready to Help Your Child Learn at Home
Hints for Helping Your Child Learn at Home (Less than 5 lesson)
This FFF Less Than 5 (or close to it!) Minute lesson is for parents and caregivers helping their children learn at home during the COVID-19 crisis.
Video Less Than 5 lesson on Hints for Helping Your Child Learn at Home
Pandemic Parenting: Brain Science, Help and Hope
This webinar from Formed Families Forward was broadcast live on May 18, 2020. Find the full recording, and 5 accompanying handouts here.
Recording of Pandemic Parenting webinar
Pandemic Parenting webinar slides
NCTSN Fact sheet: Supporting Children during COVID
Self Care Assessment
FFF Trauma Videos flyer
FFF Trauma Videos fact sheets
Educators and Families Partner: Setting the Stage for Learning at Home webinar
Originally broadcast on April 13, 2020. FFF staff talk with professional public school educator Jennifer West about how to support children and youth in learning at home. Tune into this 20 minute session to hear some practical tips from both family and educator perspectives.
Discovering Financial Resources to Support Children and Youth with Special Needs in Foster, Adoptive, and Kinship Families
This FFF webinar, recorded in winter and spring 2020 features four segments covering different options and programs that offer financial supports to some foster, adoptive and kinship families raising children and youth with disabilities. Watch all or forward through to the sections that cover topics of most relevance for your family. THANK YOU to Julie Bowman of Fairfax Co DFS, Sarah Pennington, of ABLEnow, and Sheri Abrams, Attorney at Law, for sharing their expertise.
Segment 1- Adoption Subsidy Agreements
Segment 2- ABLEnow special needs savings accounts
Segment 3- Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI)
Segment 4- Special Needs Trusts
Discovering Financial Resources webinar
FASD from a Trauma Lens webinar
Broadcast on February 11, 2020, this webinar features Barb Clark from NACAC.
Webinar recording
Slides from 2 11 20 webinar
Evidence-based Interventions for Children with FASD webinar
Originally recorded January 16, 2020, presented by Dr. Molly Millians of Emory University.
Webinar recording
Slides for 1 16 20 webinar
WEBINAR – FASD in Schools
This webinar on February 7, 2019 by FFF Director Kelly Henderson focused on avenues for securing education supports for children and youth with FASD and strategies and resources for families to share with school staff.
Recording of Webinar
Slides from webinar
WEBINAR- Improved Outcomes through Screening and Diagnosis of ND-PAE in Patients with FASD
Dr. Susan Rich presented a webinar as part of our FASD series. Find her slides and additional handouts here, as well as a recording of the webinar. Please note that video images start about 6 minutes into the recording and due to errors in the file, the audio of Dr. Rich discontinues @ minute 30. We have worked with GoToWebinar extensively to repair the audio file and unfortunately there was a permanent loss of audio. We are assured this issue will not reoccur in future webinars. Our apologies.
Slides from Dr. Rich's webinar
ND PAE Diagnostic Tool from Dr. Rich Jan 2019 webinar
ND PAE diagnostic tool Explanation Dr. Rich Jan 2019 webinar
Recording of Dr. Rich's 1/28/19 webinar (video begins @ minute 6)
WEBINAR- Practical Strategies for Supporting A Loved One with FASD
A recording of a January 16, 2019 FFF webinar by Barbara Clark of the North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC).
Practical Strategies for Supporting A Loved One with FASD
Practical Strategies for Supporting a Loved One with FASD Slides
Getting to Work: The Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act and Students with Disabilities webinar
March 15, 2017This webinar offers timely information about the federal WIOA (Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act) provisions that apply to to school-age students with disabilities.
WIOA for students with disabilities webinar
Back to School: Surviving Reentry 2018 webinar
September 16, 2018A Formed Families Forward webinar that covers some 504 and IDEA basics, as well as some strategies for communicating with school staff and kicking off the new school year well!
Note- Recording includes some dead space at beginning; content starts at 15 minutes in.
Understanding Trauma in Children and Youth video
From the Fairfax Trauma-Informed Care Network
This session gives a primer on the lasting effects of trauma, and provides practical strategies for developing positive coping skills in children and youth with a history of trauma. Participants will enhance their ability to understand and handle challenging behavior in young people and learn how to develop a trauma-informed environment, focusing on strategies that minimize triggers and emphasize effective, asset-focused behavior management.