Be Strong Families Institute
Just getting started? Are you a small organization doing great work with a few staff? Or a large organization needing professional development for a small team? Looking for something just for you? Register for one of our upcoming BSF Institute trainings below.
Upcoming BSF Institute Trainings
April 2024 - December 2024
April 2024
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July 2024
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August 2024
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May 2024
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September 2024
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October 2024
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This two-day workshop gives participants the opportunity to “test-drive” the five research-based Strengthening Families™ Protective Factors that are proven to keep children safe and families strong.
By recognizing and responding to early signs of stress, family-serving staff can assist families with getting the support they need to promote the health and well-being of their family and prevent abuse and neglect.
This 3-day online workshop will prepare your team to effectively host the internationally recognized Be Strong Families Online Parent Cafés.
This training will focus on interventions for racial trauma as experienced by young children.
June 2024
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Learn how to take your Cafés online while keeping the fidelity of the Be Strong Families model.
Prerequisite: Participants for this workshop must have completed Be Strong Families' In-Person Parent Café Training (both days) before attending this training.
Learning how vicarious trauma affects us is the first step to improving our well-being and ability to sustain positive relationships.
This 3-day online workshop will prepare your team to effectively host the internationally recognized Be Strong Families Online Parent Cafés.
Targeted toward staff who work with youth in care, this workshop offers the YouthThrive™ Protective and Promotive Factors framework as a tool for thinking about, organizing, and enhancing their services.
Allies in Recovery uses CRAFT: Community Reinforcement and Family Training a scientifically proven alternative approach to Al-Anon, for families struggling with the addiction of a loved one. It draws on the principles of positive reinforcement. Family members will get concrete suggestions based on sound psychological principles and essential self-care skills.
This 3-day online workshop will prepare your team to effectively host the internationally recognized Be Strong Families Online Parent Cafés.
This two-day workshop gives participants the opportunity to “test-drive” the five research-based Strengthening Families™ Protective Factors that are proven to keep children safe and families strong.
This workshop introduces child-welfare staff to Be Strong Families’ Shared Parenting workshop for parents and caregivers.
This 3-day online workshop will prepare your team to effectively host the internationally recognized Be Strong Families Online Parent Cafés.
In this workshop, staff will learn about the Get on the Fast Track workshop and group support that they can make available to their clients.
This 3-day online workshop will prepare your team to effectively host the internationally recognized Be Strong Families Online Parent Cafés.
This interactive workshop assists participants with understanding why certain conversations are difficult and how they could become less so.
Learn how to take your Cafés online while keeping the fidelity of the Be Strong Families model.
Prerequisite: Participants for this workshop must have completed Be Strong Families' In-Person Parent Café Training (both days) before attending this training.
When reunification is the permanency goal, maintaining strong family ties while the child is out of their parents’ home is essential.
This training is designed to assist participants with understanding the value of a Lifebook for a child in care and the ways in which the collaborative process of developing a Lifebook can promote psychological wellbeing and assist with maintaining positive family ties as well as partnerships between parents with child welfare involvement and caregivers.
This 3-day online workshop will prepare your team to effectively host the internationally recognized Be Strong Families Online Parent Cafés.
This workshop teaches participants how to implement a client-driven, partnership-based approach to I&R where the focus is on building parents’ skills to research and access services as they both build their knowledge of what’s available in the community.
This two-day workshop gives participants the opportunity to “test-drive” the five research-based Strengthening Families™ Protective Factors that are proven to keep children safe and families strong.
This 3-day online workshop will prepare your team to host the internationally recognized Be Strong Families Online Vitality Cafés.
This 3-day online workshop will prepare your team to effectively host the internationally recognized Be Strong Families Online Parent Cafés.
By recognizing and responding to early signs of stress, family-serving staff can assist families with getting the support they need to promote the health and well-being of their family and prevent abuse and neglect.
November 2024
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Learning how vicarious trauma affects us is the first step to improving our well-being and ability to sustain positive relationships.
Targeted toward staff who work with youth in care, this workshop offers the YouthThrive™ Protective and Promotive Factors framework as a tool for thinking about, organizing, and enhancing their services.
This 3-day online workshop will prepare your team to effectively host the internationally recognized Be Strong Families Online Parent Cafés.
Learn how to take your Cafés online while keeping the fidelity of the Be Strong Families model.
Prerequisite: Participants for this workshop must have completed Be Strong Families' In-Person Parent Café Training (both days) before attending this training.
December 2024
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This interactive workshop assists participants with understanding why certain conversations are difficult and how they could become less so.
This training challenges workers to understand their own story within their work.
The heart of this session is learning a strengths-based way to engage parents in building Protective Factors to reduce toxic stress.