Ongoing Caregiver Training
Resource families(formerly named foster caregivers) are required by the State of Ohio to complete 30 hours of training every two years to maintain their foster care license. Treatment resource families are required to complete 45 hours. The curriculum is developed in accordance with the caregiver’s Individual Training Needs Assessment (ITNA) and Individual Development Plan (IDP).
Registration Instructions:
If you are a resource family through LCCS, enroll yourself in training sessions through CAPS LMS:
Should you need assistance, please contact Catrina Carwell at 419-213-3505 or by e-mail catrina.carwell@jfs.ohio.gov
If you are a resource family through another agency, or if you are a daycare provider for LCCS, you will NOT be in CAPS LMS. Please contact Mrs. Bennett-Kanu to register as a guest.
~ Training Schedule ~
Class will be closed to anyone arriving more than fifteen (15) minutes late.
Normalcy and the Reasonable and Prudent Standard
Thursday, January 2, 2025 | 5:30pm – 8:30pm
Lamar King, Instructor
Locator#19314
2.75 Credit Hours
This training introduces caregivers to the concept of normalcy and defines the Reasonable and Prudent Parent Standard (RPPS). Caregivers will learn what needs to be considered when applying the RPPS and will practice applying the standard in a number of scenarios.
Lifelong Connections: Permanency for Older Youth
Friday, January 3, 2025 | 9:00am -4:00pm
Lamar King, Instructor
Locator#19320
5.5 Credit Hours
When planning for permanency with adolescents, we have to think and use approaches differently from when planning for younger children. Permanency for older youth is not centered around the living arrangement; it is not simply providing independent living services; and it is not just offering adoption. Instead, it provides youth with the opportunity to forge lifelong permanent connections to people they identify as important. This training allows participants to experience the impact of permanent connections and grasp why they are important. Finally, participants will come to understand how adolescent development relates to permanency.
AHA Pediatric Heartsaver First Aid and CPR Without Skills Testing
Saturday, January 11, 2025 | 9:00am -4:00pm
Ryan Hennessey, Instructor
Locator# 19461
6 Credit Hours
This course utilizes the American Heart Association Pediatric First Aid and CPR course materials but does not include skills testing. The participant receives a comprehensive overview of first aid basics for children, as well as CPR and AED use for all ages. This workshop is approved for OCWTP training hours only and does not certify the participant in CPR or First Aid.
**Please note that there is 2-hour mandatory hands-on skills testing for Lucas County Children Services licensed caregivers only from 2:00pm-4:00pm.
** For caregivers from other counties who wish to seek certification can attend this portion for a fee, payable to the trainer.
*VIRTUAL*
Dual System Youth: Providing Trauma-Informed Care and Advocacy for Youth Involved in both Child Protection and Juvenile Justice
Saturday, January 18, 2025 | 9:00am -12:00pm
Lauri Wolfe, Instructor
Locator# 19316
2.75 Credit Hours
Resource Readiness: Legal and Ethical Issues
At-risk youth involved in child protection services and the juvenile justice system often experience additional trauma and heightened stress due to dual system involvement. This can result in increased behavior issues and academic difficulties. Resource caregivers need to be prepared and equipped to manage these challenges. A crucial aspect of readiness involves understanding and advocating for the youth; and educating the youth about the legal procedures, the connection to their care, and available supports and/or programs.
*JOINT* *VIRTUAL*
Stress, Anxiety Relief with EFT /Tapping-Introduction
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 | 9:00am -12:00pm
Carolyn Wilson, Instructor
Locator# 16831
2.75 Credit Hours
Straightforward Course for Immediate Skill Application
Now, more than ever, skills that help reduce stress, anxiety and improve unbiased, critical thinking are desperately needed. This workshop introduces Tapping, a simple and effective tool that quickly helps to reduce stress/anxiety and the effects of trauma and secondary trauma. Evidenced-based Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), commonly called Tapping, is a self-regulation tool that offers rapid results and easy application. Gently tapping acupuncture meridian points on your own face and upper body helps ground a person, establishes calmness, and reengages the thinking brain. Participants will also learn the brain science of how stress and anxiety affect critical and objective thinking, including how our childhood experiences influence how we relate to others. Having this awareness helps us to consider and reflect on how we treat others. This skill-building course is designed in a straightforward manner to enable the immediate use of Functional Tapping (FT), an abbreviated form of EFT. It’s so easy to learn and use that participants will leave with the ability to reduce their stress and anxiety by Tapping and teaching it to another. With Tapping, stress relief is just a Tap away!
*VIRTUAL*
Trauma-Informed Care: The Neuroscience of Trauma and Resilience
Friday, January 24, 2025 | 9:00am -4:00pm
Laura Perkins, Instructor
Locator# 19317
5.5 Credit Hours
Participants will learn about the individualized nature of trauma, and how our clients’ trauma responses can present as myriad maladaptive behaviors or symptoms. Using Dr. Bruce Perry’s Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics and an orientation to Developmental Trauma, trauma will be explained from a biological perspective as well as an emotional one. We will learn how the brain is shaped by life experiences and discuss neuroplasticity in the context of both trauma and resilience. Participants will learn the importance of assessing for trauma to ensure trauma-responsive interventions and how to teach families about the impact of trauma on behavior, emotions, thinking, and relationships. They will learn how to deliver Trauma-informed care in their interactions with clients and will learn how to enhance resilience for both clients and themselves.
Class will be closed to anyone arriving more than fifteen (15) minutes late.
*VIRTUAL*
Lifebooks: A Journey to the Future While Embracing the Past
Friday, February 7, 2025 | 9:00am -4:00pm
Linda Davis, Instructor
Locator# 19318
5.5 Credit Hours
This workshop will discuss and answer the following questions about Lifebooks: why, who, what, when, and how. Philosophy, theory, and State Guidelines will be outlined to emphasize the importance of starting a Lifebook early in the child’s life. Techniques will be presented to guide the caseworker, parent, foster caregiver, and child to work together to create a natural opportunity to understand the circumstances of the foster care and/or adoptive placement. Resources and sample pages of Lifebooks will be discussed and provided.
*VIRTUAL*
A World of Opportunities: Substance Use Indicators-Hidden in Plain Sight
Saturday, February 8, 2025 | 5:30pm – 8:30pm
Tamme Smith, Instructor
Locator# 17051
2.75 Credit Hours
Learn about Ohio’s drug trends while virtually exploring various settings and types of drug paraphernalia. Learn how to identify possible substance misuse through symptoms/signs. Finally, arm yourself with resources to support someone struggling with a substance use challenge.
AHA Pediatric Heartsaver First Aid and CPR Without Skills Testing
Saturday, February 8, 2025 | 9:00am -4:00pm
Thasia Awad, Instructor
Locator# 16495
6 Credit Hours
This course utilizes the American Heart Association Pediatric First Aid and CPR course materials but does not include skills testing. The participant receives a comprehensive overview of first aid basics for children, as well as CPR and AED use for all ages. This workshop is approved for OCWTP training hours only and does not certify the participant in CPR or First Aid.
**Please note that there is 2-hour mandatory hands-on skills testing for Lucas County Children Services licensed caregivers only from 2:00pm-4:00pm.
** For caregivers from other counties who wish to seek certification can attend this portion for a fee, payable to the trainer.
Dual System Youth: Providing Trauma-Informed Care and Advocacy for Youth Involved in both Child Protection and Juvenile Justice
Thursday, February 13, 2025 | 9:00am -12:00pm
Lauri Wolfe, Instructor
Locator# 19335
2.75 Credit Hours
Resource Readiness: Legal and Ethical Issues
At-risk youth involved in child protection services and the juvenile justice system often experience additional trauma and heightened stress due to dual system involvement. This can result in increased behavior issues and academic difficulties. Resource caregivers need to be prepared and equipped to manage these challenges. A crucial aspect of readiness involves understanding and advocating for the youth; and educating the youth about the legal procedures, the connection to their care, and available supports and/or programs.
Confidence in the Court Process for Resource Caregivers
Thursday, February 13, 2025 | 1:00pm -4:00pm
Lauri Wolfe, Instructor
Locator# 19336
2.75 Credit Hours
A court-involved child protection case can be overwhelming due to the complex process, including understanding the timeline and hearings, preparing youth, and testifying. This course aims to provide a clear explanation of those issues as well as strategies to manage them. Additionally, the course will describe attorney tactics and identify tools to help individuals prepare for and effectively testify in court.
Interventions with Lying and Stealing
Saturday, February 15, 2025 | 9:00am -4:00pm
Dave Zidar, Instructor
Locator# 19427
5.5 Credit Hours
This course helps foster parents and staff develop interventions with children who lie or steal. The central goal of this course is to provide a better understanding of the “function” of these behavior. – Why do foster children lie and steal? Central to the discussion are the development of empathy for these children and determining the types of interventions that work best.
*VIRTUAL*
Trauma-Informed Care: The Neuroscience of Trauma and Resilience
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 | 9:00am -4:00pm
Laura Perkins, Instructor
Locator# 19429
5.5 Credit Hours
Participants will learn about the individualized nature of trauma, and how our clients’ trauma responses can present as myriad maladaptive behaviors or symptoms. Using Dr. Bruce Perry’s Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics and an orientation to Developmental Trauma, trauma will be explained from a biological perspective as well as an emotional one. We will learn how the brain is shaped by life experiences and discuss neuroplasticity in the context of both trauma and resilience. Participants will learn the importance of assessing for trauma to ensure trauma-responsive interventions and how to teach families about the impact of trauma on behavior, emotions, thinking, and relationships. They will learn how to deliver Trauma-informed care in their interactions with clients and will learn how to enhance resilience for both clients and themselves.
*VIRTUAL*
Cultural Humility
Saturday, February 22, 2025 | 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Carmen Toro-Wooten, Instructor
Locator# 19432
1 Credit Hours
Resource Readiness: CULTURAL AND DIVERSITY ISSUES
This course provides participants with an overview of cultural humility and helps participants recognize the importance of honoring children’s cultural identity and respecting families from varying races, religions, ethnicities, and economic statuses. Openness to a child’s sexual orientation and gender identity and expression and viewing these differences from a strengths-based perspective is highlighted. This course shares strategies for parents who are fostering or adopting to respect as well as navigate differences in values from the children and families, while acknowledging imbalances of power and inequities.
*VIRTUAL*
Trauma Informed Parenting
Wednesday, February 26, 2025 | 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Carmen Toro-Wooten, Instructor
Locator# 19433
2 Credit Hours
Resource Readiness: TRAUMA AND ITS IMPACT ON CHILDREN AND THE FAMILY, PROMOTING ATTACHMENT
This course helps participants learn the three Rs (Regulate, Relate, Reason) and other practical trauma-informed parenting strategies. Trauma support resources for children are described. Participants will recognize the importance of finding activities to have fun with children; recognize the importance of connected parenting and the relationship as the foundational cornerstone; understand how to promote healthy behaviors; and recognize the importance of parent’s self-regulation. Also highlighted are ways to be proactive versus reactive and the difference between discipline and punishment.
Class will be closed to anyone arriving more than fifteen (15) minutes late.
*VIRTUAL*
Partnering with Primary Families
Saturday, March 1, 2025 | 1:00pm – 2:30pm
Dave Zidar, Instructor
Locator# 19435
1.5 Credit Hours
This course, part of the Preservice training series, helps learners understand their need to partner with the primary family for the child’s benefit. The importance of empathy is explored, and learners consider child protection from the perspective of the primary family. Learners will hear about the value of partnering from those with lived experience.
*VIRTUAL*
Attachment
Saturday, March 8, 2025 | 10:00am -12:00pm
Carmen Toro-Wooten, Instructor
Locator# 19437
2 Credit Hours
Resource Readiness -TRAUMA AND ITS IMPACT ON CHILDREN AND THE FAMILY, PROMOTING ATTACHMENT
This course helps participants understand the importance of attachment in parenting, both for the children and parents who are fostering or adopting. It covers the impact of fractured attachments/lack of attachments on children’s ability to attach and identifies strategies to develop healthy attachment bonds. This course also covers developing trust and developing children’s sense of connectedness and belonging. How to be attuned to children and recognizing and honoring children’s primary attachment to their families is also highlighted.
*VIRTUAL*
Separation, Grief, and Loss
Saturday, March 8, 2025 | 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Carmen Toro-Wooten, Instructor
Locator# 19440
2 Credit Hours
Resource Readiness -TRAUMA AND ITS IMPACT ON CHILDREN AND THE FAMILY, PROMOTING ATTACHMENT
This course helps participants understand the impact of separation and ambiguous loss, and the different ways children grieve. Life-long grieving and the importance of providing opportunities for grieving is explored. Strategies to help children deal with grief and loss are identified. Participants will understand loss and fractured attachments with birth family members and previous placements; recognize the importance of establishing and maintaining essential relationships with and for children; understand the impact of frequent moves and the importance of managing transitions for children; and understand the separation, grief and loss experienced by all members of the foster/adoption network.
*VIRTUAL*
Kinship Parenting
Monday, March 10, 2025 | 6:30pm – 8:20pm
Lauri Wolfe, Instructor
Locator# 19442
1.83 Credit Hours
This one hour and 50 minute course acknowledges the complexities associated with caring for children who are related, including divided loyalties, redefining roles, and relationships, setting boundaries with parents and other relatives, and the range of emotions, including anger, resentment, guilt, and/or embarrassment that caregivers can feel. Strategies for managing family dynamics and conflicts, identifying triggers, and effectively managing stress are shared.
Management of Children with Challenging Behaviors
Saturday, March 15, 2025 | 9:00am – 4:00pm
Dave Zidar, Instructor
Locator# 19443
5.5 Credit Hours
This course addresses a variety of behaviors that all children may present, including stealing and physical assault. The course’s goal is to provide the skills to manage these behaviors with a reduced level of reactivity. This class is recommended for anyone who works with or manages an environment where children are present with these issues.
*VIRTUAL*
Verbal De-escalation in Child Welfare
Monday, March 17, 2025 | 9:00am – 12:00pm
Brian Lowery, Instructor
Locator# 19444
2.75 Credit Hours
Resource Readiness – FAMILY SAFETY
This class will examine how pre-placement experiences and current stressors may affect a foster child’s emotions, leading to escalating behaviors. This workshop reviews the skills of active listening, non-violent communication, and de-escalation. Levels of crisis development and the conflict cycle are discussed, emphasizing appropriate foster parent response. Trainees will participate in exercises and demonstrations concerning personal space, body posture and motion, which will enable them to more successfully deal with emotional or physical crisis which can occur with children living in out of home care.
*VIRTUAL*
Trauma-Informed Care: The Neuroscience of Trauma and Resilience
Friday, March 21, 2025 | 9:00am -4:00pm
Laura Perkins, Instructor
Locator# 19445
5.5 Credit Hours
Participants will learn about the individualized nature of trauma, and how our clients’ trauma responses can present as myriad maladaptive behaviors or symptoms. Using Dr. Bruce Perry’s Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics and an orientation to Developmental Trauma, trauma will be explained from a biological perspective as well as an emotional one. We will learn how the brain is shaped by life experiences and discuss neuroplasticity in the context of both trauma and resilience. Participants will learn the importance of assessing for trauma to ensure trauma-responsive interventions and how to teach families about the impact of trauma on behavior, emotions, thinking, and relationships. They will learn how to deliver Trauma-informed care in their interactions with clients and will learn how to enhance resilience for both clients and themselves.
AHA Pediatric Heartsaver First Aid and CPR Without Skills Testing
Saturday, March 22, 2025 | 9:00am -4:00pm
Ryan Hennessey, Instructor
Locator# 19462
6 Credit Hours
This course utilizes the American Heart Association Pediatric First Aid and CPR course materials but does not include skills testing. The participant receives a comprehensive overview of first aid basics for children, as well as CPR and AED use for all ages. This workshop is approved for OCWTP training hours only and does not certify the participant in CPR or First Aid.
**Please note that there is 2-hour mandatory hands-on skills testing for Lucas County Children Services licensed caregivers only from 2:00pm-4:00pm.
** For caregivers from other counties who wish to seek certification can attend this portion for a fee, payable to the trainer.
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