The 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.
Trauma-Informed Parenting: Using Lifebooks (online)
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.
Online Parent Café Team Training
This 3-day online workshop will prepare your team to effectively host the internationally recognized Be Strong Families Online Parent Cafés.
Building Strong Relationships with Families
This hands-on, activity-based, experiential workshop builds family-serving staff members’ parent engagement skills.
Online Parent Café Team Training
This 3-day online workshop will prepare your team to effectively host the internationally recognized Be Strong Families Online Parent Cafés.
Assisting and Supporting Parents with Child-Welfare-Involvement with Getting on the Fast Track
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.
Online Vitality Café Add-On
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.
Shared Parenting: Assisting Parents with Child-Welfare-Involvement and Caregivers with Building Collaborative Relationships
This workshop introduces child-welfare staff to Be Strong Families’ Shared Parenting workshop for parents and caregivers.
Integrating the YouthThrive™ Protective and Promotive Factors Framework into Your Work
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.
Online Parent Café Team Training
This 3-day online workshop will prepare your team to effectively host the internationally recognized Be Strong Families Online Parent Cafés.
Online #WoWTalk Café Add-On
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.
Living The Protective Factors (Online, Part 1 and Part 2)
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.
Communicating with Families
This interactive workshop assists participants with understanding why certain conversations are difficult and how they could become less so.
Vicarious Trauma and Vicarious Resilience: Holding Space for and Working Through Our Own and Others' Trauma
Learning how vicarious trauma affects us is the first step to improving our well-being and ability to sustain positive relationships.
Online Parent Café Team Training
This 3-day online workshop will prepare your team to effectively host the internationally recognized Be Strong Families Online Parent Cafés.
Online Vitality Café Add-On
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.
Being an Agent for Positive Change
This training challenges workers to understand their own story within their work.
Maintaining Family Connectedness
When reunification is the permanency goal, maintaining strong family ties while the child is out of their parents’ home is essential.
Online Parent Café Team Training
This 3-day online workshop will prepare your team to effectively host the internationally recognized Be Strong Families Online Parent Cafés.
Relationship-Based Practice and Making Effective Referrals
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.
Online #WoWTalk Café Add-On
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.
Recognizing and Responding to Signs of Family Stress
This training will help participants get in touch with their own stress and help them recognize early signs of family stress.
Online Parent Café Team Training
This 3-day online workshop will prepare your team to effectively host the internationally recognized Be Strong Families Online Parent Cafés.
Reducing Toxic Stress by Living the Protective Factors
Toxic stress takes a toll on all family members. Well-meaning attempts to educate parents about the damaging impact of toxic stress on their children’s development can end up adding more pressure and shame to an overwhelming situation.
Online Vitality Café Add-On
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.
Assisting and Supporting Parents with Child-Welfare-Involvement with Getting on the Fast Track
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.
Online Parent Café Team Training
This 3-day online workshop will prepare your team to effectively host the internationally recognized Be Strong Families Online Parent Cafés.
Integrating the YouthThrive™ Protective and Promotive Factors Framework into Your Work
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.
Online #WoWTalk Café Add-On
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.
Online Parent Café Team Training
This 3-day online workshop will prepare your team to effectively host the internationally recognized Be Strong Families Online Parent Cafés.
Maintaining Family Connectedness (online)
When reunification is the permanency goal, maintaining strong family ties while the child is out of their parents’ home is essential.
Integrating the YouthThrive™ Protective and Promotive Factors Framework into Your Work (online)
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.