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
September 2025
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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.
The Online #WoWTalk (Words of Wisdom) Café Add-On prepares parents and providers who have been certified to host Be Strong Families’ Online Parent Cafés to take the next step and begin to produce and host Be Strong Families’ Online #WoWTalk Cafés! This is for participants who have taken the Online Parent Café Training and are facilitating Cafés.
October 2025
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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 3-day online workshop will prepare your team to effectively host the internationally recognized Be Strong Families Online Parent Cafés.
The Online Vitality Café Add-On prepares participants who have been certified to host Be Strong Families’ Online Parent Cafés to take the next step and begin to produce and host Be Strong Families’ Online Vitality Cafés! This is for participants who have taken the Online Parent Café Training and are facilitating 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.
November 2025
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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.
December 2025
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This interactive workshop assists participants with understanding why certain conversations are difficult and how they could become less so.
January 2026
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This 3-day online workshop will prepare your team to effectively host the internationally recognized Be Strong Families Online Parent Cafés.
This training challenges workers to understand their own story within their work.
February 2026
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The Online #WoWTalk (Words of Wisdom) Café Add-On prepares parents and providers who have been certified to host Be Strong Families’ Online Parent Cafés to take the next step and begin to produce and host Be Strong Families’ Online #WoWTalk Cafés! This is for participants who have taken the Online Parent Café Training and are facilitating Cafés.
This 3-day online workshop will prepare your team to effectively host the internationally recognized Be Strong Families Online Parent Cafés.
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.
March 2026
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This hands-on, activity-based, experiential workshop builds family-serving staff members’ parent engagement skills.
This 3-day online workshop will prepare your team to effectively host the internationally recognized Be Strong Families Online Parent Cafés.
April 2026
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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.
The Online Vitality Café Add-On prepares participants who have been certified to host Be Strong Families’ Online Parent Cafés to take the next step and begin to produce and host Be Strong Families’ Online Vitality Cafés! This is for participants who have taken the Online Parent Café Training and are facilitating Cafés.
Learning how vicarious trauma affects us is the first step to improving our well-being and ability to sustain positive relationships.
May 2026
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When reunification is the permanency goal, maintaining strong family ties while the child is out of their parents’ home is essential.
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.
June 2026
(click any training title for details)
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.
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.