Recordings and materials from webinars and other presentations and events.
Presented live on October 2, 2024, this webinar was presented by Ashleigh Conrad and Sammy Carr from Northern Virginia Girls on the Run. This workshop explores diverse communication styles and offers skills to convey tough topics, such as emotions, in a more clear and concise manner.
This webinar broadcast live on September 26, 2024, addressed ways that foster, adoptive and kinship families can build collaborative relationships with teachers and school staff.
Presented by Stacia Stribling, PhD, Deputy Director of Formed Families Forward.
Presented in September 2024, this training offers foster parents and kinship caregivers (and other parents/caregivers) insight into stressors related to the start of the school year. Participants will gain practical strategies for understanding and supporting children and youth through trauma-triggered responses. Specific tools and resources are shared.
Presented by clinical psychologist Dr. Carole Sebenick.
This work is funded by a grant from the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS).
Broadcast live on September 10, 2024, this FFF webinar offers parents and caregivers a new way to look at and address tough behaviors. Based on the work of Robyn Gobbel and her book, Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors, will deepen understanding of ‘challenging’ behaviors. The webinar focused on strategies that boost the nervous system’s ability to promote a connected, calm and comfortable relationship for families, caregivers and professionals who raise or work with children and youth.
Presented by Melissa Lebling, registered Raising Kids with Big Baffling Behaviors course facilitator, and Formed Families Forward’s Family Support and Outreach Specialist.
Broadcast live on August 20, 2024, this webinar presented by FFF offered families formed through foster and kinship care and adoption strategies for supporting children and youth as the new school year begins.
Originally broadcast live on August 13, 2024 this webinar features attorney Valerie L’Herrou of Virginia Poverty Law Center sharing timely information about navigating the system of financial supports, health care, legal issues, education concerns, barriers to finding help, and maintaining family relationships.
This webinar, originally broadcast live on May 8, 2024 and hosted by Formed Families Forward, provides an overview of foster care in Virginia. Veteran DSS caseworker Shawn Nashwinter and foster/adoptive parent Melissa Lebling share specifics on training, eligibility and approval for foster or resource parents and address common questions.
Broadcast live on March 6, 2024, this web panel of experts focused on post-secondary options for young adults with disabilities that impact behavioral health.
Three panelists from Breakthru Services, Virginia Department of Aging and Rehabilitative Services (DARS), and the ENDependence Center of Northern Virginia shared information on skill building services, the basics of eligibility for DARS post-high school services, as well as targeted supports available for young adults with mental health and neurobehavioral needs and other conditions which present challenges to traditional post-secondary education, training and employment options.
Originally delivered live on February 28, 2024 by pediatric Speech Language Pathologist Beth Stribling, the Let’s Talk About Talking: How Families Can Nurture and Support Communication Skills webinar offered families guidance on developmental language development milestones. Specific strategies for supporting pragmatic language were shared.
This webinar originally broadcast live on January 31, 2024, was presented by Dr. Molly Millians, Emory University. Dr. Millians reviewed evidence-based school interventions as well as family and mental health supports for children and youth with prenatal alcohol exposure.
Presented live on Wednesday, January 24, 2024 by Shannon Iacobacci from Embracing the Brain, this session offers tips on how to advocate for a child or youth with a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in schools. Shannon reviews special education processes and provisions, and gives specific suggestions for IEPs and 504 plans.
This webinar was originally broadcast live on February 7, 2024. Presented by Lucy Beadnell of The Arc of Northern Virginia, this webinar offered historical perspectives on interactions between law enforcement and persons with developmental disabilities. Practical recommendations for families to prevent arrests were shared.
Presented at the Loudoun Co. Public Schools Mental Health and Wellness conference on January 27, 2024, this presentation focused on how to regulation and connect with your children, so they feel safe, seen and valued.
Broadcast live on 11/15/23, this webinar hosted by FFF was presented by local expert Jessica Laurent, LPC, CSOTP, BCN from the Center for Clinical and Forensic Services. The recording of the presentation portion of the webinar is provided.
The presenter can be contacted at jessicalaurent@ccfsinc.net.
Broadcast on October 11, 2023, this webinar from FFF provided an overview of common communication barriers, and offered strategies for strengthening home/school collaboration. A brief overview of dispute resolution techniques was also provided.
Recording begins about 10 minutes into the webinar presentation.
Broadcast live on October 4, 2023, this webinar from FFF was the 2nd of 3 in the Fall 2023 Helping Foster, Adoptive and Kinship Families to Navigate Special Education series. The presentation focused on formal avenues for securing services and supports for children and youth with special needs including 504 plans and individualized education programs (IEPs), and addressed potential sticking points for foster, adoptive and kinship families.
Broadcast live on September 27, 2023, this webinar from Renee Myers, NCSP, Content Specialist at Formed Families Forward offers insights into special education referral, evaluation, eligibility and reevaluation, with a specific focus on children, youth and young adults in foster, adoptive and kinship families.
Due to technical issues, the Recording begins about 15 minutes into the session. Apologies!
This webinar from Formed Families Forward on August 29, 2023 offered strategies and resources for foster, adoptive and kinship families as they support their children and youth in the return to school.