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Training Sessions and Key Notes
An Entertaining and Interaction Presentation for Conferences. "Dr. John was the best speaker I have ever heard." NFPA Foster Parent Conference Dr. John DeGarmo is an accomplished consultant, speaker, and trainer in the education, child welfare, and foster care system. Dr. John has spoken to tens of thousands across the nation, and has performed to audiences around the world. He speaks to schools, foster parent organizations, training seminars, caseworkers, churches, companies, and other nonprofit groups across the nation. John brings tremendous energy to his delivery. He is a powerfully dynamic speaker, engaging the audience from beginning to end. His presentations are personal, humorous, and emotional, leaving audiences both laughing and crying. John's storytelling skills are masterful, as he has been performing in front of others for decades, on a global stage. See what others are saying about Dr. John's presentations HERE. John's presentations are thoroughly researched beforehand, and full of insight and information. John does not stop after the presentations, though, as he is a relationship builder, and spends quality time with audiences afterward, answering questions, listening to others, and giving additional insight. Find out about Dr. John as your Education Speaker HERE. Find out about Dr.John as your Motivational Speaker HERE. Foster Care Sessions Include: A Home for Every Child: Adoption for Children in Foster Care This session examines the belief that every child in foster care is adoptable. During the presentation, participants will be better understand the adoption practices that are associated with children in foster care. Participants will also be equipped with strategies and knowledge designed to ensure that children in foster care have the best possible opportunity to be adopted by a forever family. Aging Out of the System: Foster Children in Peril This session focuses on the many challenges, trials, and even dangers that foster children face as they age out of the system. During the presentation, participants will be better understand why a foster child might age out and what may happen as a result. Participants will also be equipped with strategies designed to prepare foster children beforehand, as well as when they age out and encounter obstacles preventing them from being successful. Birth Children and Foster Children: Living in the Same Family This session focuses on the relationships between biological children and foster children. During this presentation, participants will better understand the challenges and difficulties that some biological children experience when their new siblings from foster care enter into their home and family. Participants will learn strategies designed to help during this time. Birth Parents and You: Working with Biological Family Members This session focuses on the relationship between foster parents and birth parents. During the presentation, participants will better understand why it might be difficult to have a healthy relationship with birth parents, and why biological family members may not appreciate foster parents. Participants will learn strategies designed to help them reach out to biological family members, and how to create a healthy and positive working relationship with birth parents Burnout and Stress for Foster Parents This session will focus on emotional challenges, difficulties, and trials that foster parents all face which often leads to burnout and stress. During the presentation, participants will learn about the realities of burnout and stress for foster parents, as well as become equipped with strategies designed to best address these feelings. Caseworkers and Foster Parents: Working Together This session will focus on the importance of caseworkers and foster parents working together. Participants will be equipped with strategies designed to better assist them in building healthy relationships with foster parents. Both Caseworker and Foster Parent versions available. Child Sex Trafficking and Children in Foster Care This session will examine the ever growing danger and reality of child sex trafficking in the 21st century. During the presentation, participants will learn about how the impact of online technology and social networking has led to the growth of human trafficking and child sex traffickers, and how children in foster care are targeted. Participants will learn strategies designed to not only recognize these dangers, but also how to better protect the children in their home. The Church and Foster Care This session will examine how the church in the 21st century is called to care for children in foster care, as well as the foster parents who support them. Participants will gain knowledge and strategies designed to for churches to better assist and aid the foster care system, and the children and family members that are involved. ***NEW***Compassion Fatigue: When You Care Too Much This session will focus on the condition known as Compassion Fatigue, or Secondary Traumatic Stress. During the presentation, participants will learn about the realities of compassion fatigue, and how it affects their foster parenting. Participants will learn strategies designed to best address this form of stress, and how to best treat it. Cultural Identity in Foster Care This session will focus on the importance of cultural identity and development for children in foster care. Participants will be equipped with strategies designed to better assist them as they not only come to understand these types of cultural differences, but also how to help to develop and strengthen them, as well. Documentation, Documentation, Documentation! How to Write Documentation as a Foster Parent. This session will examine why it is important for foster parents to document while they care for children in foster care in their homes. Participants will gain knowledge and strategies on how to keep written records of the progress and day to day experiences while being a foster parent. Facing Challenges and Reaping Rewards This session will focus on the many different and distinct challenges that foster parents face on an every day level while caring for children in their homes, and examine the many rewards that come with being a foster parent. This presentation is designed to reassure that the feelings of difficulty for a foster parent are valid, and motivate and inspire them to continue to care for children in need in their home. FASD: Supporting the Child and Supporting the Family This session will focus on the challenges that Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) bring for both children and the families that care for them. Participants will gain knowledge and strategies designed to best help children who suffer from FASD and how to strengthen families that care for these children. Grief and Loss: A Foster Parent's Broken Heart This session will focus on emotional challenges, difficulties, and trials that foster parents face when a child in care leaves their home. During the presentation, participants will learn about the realities of loss and grief for foster parents, as well as become equipped with strategies designed to best address these emotions that come with this time of loss. Helping Children With Disorders This session focuses on the variety of disorders and anxieties that children in foster care might suffer from. During this presentation, participants will better understand disorders and anxieties such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder, Reactive Attachment Disorder, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, and others. Participants will gain knowledge and strategies designed to best help children and families who face these challenges. The Holidays: Times of Joy and Grief This session focuses on how the holidays are often a time of stress and grief for children in foster care. During this presentation, participants will better understand why a foster child experiences feelings of great sadness and even depression as he is separated from his birth family during a time of holiday celebration. Participants will be equipped with strategies designed to better assist a child in foster care during this time of what should be holiday joy. Home Safety This session focuses upon the importance and necessity of ensuring that your house and home are safe for families, for children in foster care, and for purposes of licensing. Participants will be equipped with strategies designed to better equip themselves in ensuring a home is safety ready through self inspections. Just For Dads This session focuses on the specific expectations and responsibilities that foster fathers face on a daily basis. During this presentation, foster parents will come to understand the many challenges that foster children face while in school. Foster parents will be equipped with strategies designed help foster children in school, thus helping them to be stronger advocates for the child. Keeping Foster Children Safe Online: The Dangers of Online Technology and Social Networking in Foster Care This session focuses on the many dangers currently associated with foster children and online technology. Social networking is also a main focus of this session. During the presentation, foster parents will be informed of the dangers associated with online technology, as well as be equipped with strategies designed to better protect the foster child. ***NEW*** Kinship Care This session focuses on the Kinship Care. During this presentation, participants will examine the history of Kinship Care. In addition, participants will better understand how Kinship Care works, the benefits and challenges that Kinship families might face, and recognized the myths and misconceptions associated with Kinship Care. ***NEW*** Lice! Prevention and Treatment This session focuses on the causes of Lice and how to best treat this skin condition. During this presentation, participants will examine the many causes of Lice and how it affects an entire household. Participants will be equipped with tools on how to treat Lice. An informative and often humor filled seminar. Marriage and Foster Parenting: Making it Work This session focuses on the difficulties that caring for a foster child can bring to a marriage. During this presentation, participants will come to understand the many challenges that foster parents face in their marriage while foster parenting. Participants will be equipped with strategies designed to help strengthen their marriage, their family, and their foster parenting. ***NEW***Normalcy and Children in Foster Care This session exmaines what "Normalcy" means for children in foster care, and how to implement day to day opportunities for children in care to lead a "normal" lifestyle. ***NEW*** Positive Parenting Solutions This session focuses on what Positive Parenting is and how it can be used to best help with acts of misbehavior by children.During this presentation, participants will come to understand what Positive Parenting is, and how it can be used to help children with behavior problems. Participants will be equipped with strategies designed to help strengthen their family through Positive Parenting. The Power of Prayer: Faith and Foster Parenting This session focuses on how the power of prayer can be used for today's foster parents. Participants will learn how to pray for the children, for the birth parents and biological children, for themselves, and for their marriage, as they care for children in need. Key Scripture verses that support children and prayer will also be focused upon. Responding to the Needs of Foster Children in Public Schools This session focuses on the many challenges that foster children face in public schools, and how to best respond to them. During this presentation, foster parents will come to understand the many challenges that foster children face while in school. Foster parents will be equipped with strategies designed help foster children in school, thus helping them to be stronger advocates for the child. Risks of Long Term Foster Care Placement This session focuses on the risks and dangers of keeping a child in foster care over an extended period of time. During this presentation, foster parents will come to understand the many struggles that foster children face while in placement, and how these struggles can impact their future,as well as the well being of a foster home. ***NEW*** Sleeping Anxieties and Children in Foster Care This session will focus on the challenges and difficulties sleep anxiety can place upon a child in foster care and a foster family. During this presentation, participants will gain knowledge about why sleep anxiety might be a problem with a child and how to best address and treat this anxiety. ***NEW*** Stress Relief for Families This session will focus on the many challenges of stress that families can face while caring for children in foster care face on a daily basis. This session is designed for case workers and social workers to better understand the times of stress that foster parents experience. Participants will be equipped with strategies designed to better assist them as they not only come to understand these types of stress, but also how to help reduce stress in a family and to strengthen healthy families, as well. Supporting Foster Parents in Times of Crisis and Stress This session will focus on the many challenges of crisis and stress that foster parents face on a daily basis. This session is designed for case workers and social workers to better understand the times of stress and crisis that foster parents experience. Participants will be equipped with strategies designed to better assist them as they not only come to understand foster parents, but help them with the many challenges, as well. Trauma and Stress: The Emotional Challenges that Foster Children, Birth Parents, and Foster Parents Face This session will focus on emotional challenges, difficulties, and trials that foster children, biological family members, and foster parents all face. During the presentation, participants will learn about the realities of stress, trauma, loss and grief for all involved when dealing with displacement and reunification, as well as become equipped with strategies designed to best address the stress that comes with this time of loss. ***NEW*** Understanding Temperament and Extreme Behavior This session focuses on the challenges that issues of temperament and extreme behavior bring to a family. During this presentation, participants will examine the many causes of temperament and extreme behavior and how it affects an entire household. Participants will be equipped with tools on how to treat this type of behavior. Visitations and Your Children in Foster Care This session will focus on the role of visitations for children in foster care, and the importance of it. During the presentation, participants will be equipped with strategies designed to best prepare them, the children, and birth family members for the best and most positive visitation possible. Welcoming a Foster Child into the Home This session will focus on the placement of a foster child into a foster home for the first time, during a time of difficult transition. During the presentation, foster parents will recognize the difficulties that come with placement, as well as become equipped with strategies designed to better prepare foster parents as they welcome a foster child into their home. When a Foster Child Leaves: Saying Goodbye This session will focus on the transition of a foster child from his foster home during a time of reunification, or into another home. During the presentation, participants will be equipped with strategies on how to best ease this transition for both foster parents and the child when the child leaves the home. This is a difficult time in the lives of all concerned, and with the right strategies, foster parents can make this difficult transition from their home a little easier for both parent and child. |
Foster Care Institute of Online Training Webinars
At last! Foster Parent Training you can receive in the comfort of your own home. Dr. John DeGarmo, leading foster care expert, shares some of his own experience, as well as tips and strategies, designed to help you become a stronger foster parent. Each webinar is worth One Hour credit. Plus, printable access to all certificates for each webinar, 16 downloadable eBooks, and more.
Over 70 Hours of Online Training! Become a Special Member HERE The Foster Care Institute Library of Online Training Webinars ***NEW***Accountability vs. Accusations-Teaching Foster Children the Importance of Responsibility This training webinar examines the difference of accountability vs. accusations, the importance of teaching children in foster care personal accountability and provides tips and strategies on how to help children in foster care become accountable for their choices and decisions. ADHD Part I: Understanding Anxiety Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder This training webinar examines what ADHD is, what the signs and symptoms look like, and how it affects children and youth. ADHD Part II: Addressing and Treating the Disorder This training webinar examines how to best address and treat children and youth who are diagnosed with ADHD. Aging Out of the Foster Care System Part I: Foster Children in Peril This training webinar examines the dangers foster youth face when aging out. Aging Out of Foster Care Part II: How to Prepare for Life after Care This training webinar examines how foster parents and non foster parents can help youth when they age out of foster care. Anger Management: How to Parent a Child with Anger Challenges This training webinar examines the variety of reasons why children experience anger and how to best manage this behavior. Anxieties and Disorders This training webinar examines the various anxieties and disorders that children in foster care may suffer from, and offers strategies and tips designed to best help children and the families that care for them. Attachment and Children in Foster Care This training webinar examines why children and youth in foster care may struggle with issues of attachment and offers strategies designed to best help those who have attachment disorders. Autism: What you Need to Know This training webinar examines what Autism is, how to recognize the signs, and how to best treat the disorder. Bedwetting: Understanding the Condition and How to Best Address it This training webinar examines the many possible causes of bedwetting, for all children, and offers tips and strategies designed to best address it. Birth Children and Adoptive/Foster Children: Living Together in the Same House This training webinar examines how foster parents can help their own biological children as they care for adoptive/foster children in the same home. Birth Parents and You: Working with Biological Family Members This training webinar examines how foster parents can develop a healthy relationship with birth parents and biological family members of a child in foster care. ***NEW***Building Self Esteem in Children and Youth This training webinar examines why children and youth in foster care ma experience low self esteem and how others can help to build self esteem in children and youth in crisis. Bullying and Children in Foster Care Part I: Recognizing the Signs and Dangers This training webinar examines the various forms of bullying, why children in foster care might be especially vulnerable to bullying, and what might cause one to bully others. Bullying and Children in Foster Care Part II: Protecting Children from Bullying This training webinar examines how foster parents and care takers can protect children from bullying, and offers solutions and strategies to do so. Burnout and Stress in Foster Care This training webinar examines how foster parents can help their own biological children as they care for adoptive/foster children in the same home. Case Workers and Foster Parents: Working Together This training webinar examines how case workers and foster parents can partner together to help children in need placed in foster home. NOTE: This is the version for Case Workers. Case Workers and Foster Parents: Working Together This training webinar examines how case workers and foster parents can partner together to help children in need placed in foster home. NOTE: This is the version for Foster Parents. Child Development Part I This training webinar examines the normal stages of child development, and how children in foster care might develop at a different rate due to their unique challenges.. Child Development Part II This training webinar examines the normal stages of child development, and how children in foster care might develop at a different rate due to their unique challenges. Child Sex Trafficking and Children in Foster Care This training webinar examines the dangers and realities of child sex trafficking, how it impacts children in foster care, and how to take steps to recognize and prevent it. Compassion Fatigue This training webinar examines the realities of Compassion Fatigue, or Secondary Traumatic Stress, for foster parents, and offers solutions to best treat this form of stress. Discipline and Children in Foster Care This training webinar examines how to best address issues of discipline for a child placed in foster care. Eating Disorders and Children in Foster Care This training webinar examines the challenges that eating disorders pose for children and offers solutions to best treat this disorder. Emphatic Listening This training webinar examines what Emphatic Listening is and how how it can help those who care for children in foster care. Participants will increase their awareness of emphatic listening and how to best use it for children in care. ***NEW***Establishing Trust with Children in Foster Care This training webinar examines why children and youth in foster care may have issues of trust, and provides strategies on how to best help children with these issues. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Part I: Understanding the Disorder This training webinar examines what FASD is, and how it affects children and the families that care for them. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Part II: Helping Children with the Disorder This training webinar examines how to best help children with FASD. Fire Starting: Children Who Play with Fire and how to Address it This training webinar examines the variety of reasons why children might play or start fires, and offers strategies designed to best address this danger. Foster Children and the Dangers of Online Technology This training webinar examines the many dangers that children in foster care, as well as the foster parents, face with online technology and social networking, and offers tips on how to combat these dangers. Grief and Loss for Children in Foster Care This training webinar examines the feelings of grief and loss that children face while in foster care, how to recognize the signs, and how to gain strategies designed to best help children in foster care who experience these feelings. Helping Children with Anxieties and Disorders This training webinar examines the various anxieties and disorders that children in foster care may suffer from, and offers strategies and tips designed to best help children and the families that care for them. Helping Foster Children in School: Teachers and Foster Parents Working Together This training webinar examines how teachers can help children in foster care succeed in school, and how foster parents can best partner with teachers while a child is in school. The Holidays: A Time of Joy and Sadness This training webinar examines how the holiday season can be a time of both joy and sadness for youth in foster care. Home Safety and Foster Parents This training webinar examines how foster parents can best keep their house and home safe in all areas while caring for children in need. The Importance of Documentation for Foster Parents This training webinar examines the great importance of why foster parents need to document and record information when caring for children in care, and how to best do so. ***NEW***Illness Anxiety This training webinar examines what Illness Anxiety is, how to recognize the signs and symptoms, and provides tips and strategies on how to help children who suffer from Illness Anxiety. Just For Dads This training webinar examines the specific expectations and responsibilities that foster fathers face on a daily basis. Kinship Care This training webinar examines what Kinship Care is, and the many benefits and challenges that Kinship Care brings for children and families. Knowing the Terms you Need to Know This training webinar examines the many terms and definitions you need to know as you care for children in foster care. Lice! Prevention and Treatment This training webinar examines the causes of Lice and how to best prevent and treat the skin condition. Life books and Children in Foster Care This training webinar examines why Lifebooks are important for children in foster care, and how to design the best one. Loss and Grief in Foster Care This training webinar examines the emotions of loss and grief that Foster Parents face. Managing Stress for Foster Parents This training webinar examines why foster parents might experience stress, what the causes, signs, and symptoms of stress are, and how to best manage stress when caring for children in crisis. Mandated Reporting This training webinar examines who is a mandated reporter, and when and how to file a reporter. Marriage and Foster Parenting Part I: The Challenges Marriages Face This training webinar examines the challenges and stress that married couples face while foster parenting. Marriage and Foster Parenting Part II: Making it Work This training webinar offers strategies designed to help married couples strengthen their marriage while foster parenting. ***NEW***Mental Health Issues and Children in Foster Care This training webinar examines the mental health crisis and issues that children in foster care face, and how to best address it. ***NEW***Non Compliance and Defiance This training webinar examines why children might be Non Compliance and Defiant, how to recognize the signs, and how to gain strategies designed to best help children in foster care who are non compliant. Normalcy and Children in Foster Care This training webinar examines what "Normalcy" means for children in foster care, and how to implement day to day opportunities for children in care to lead a "normal" lifestyle. Oppositional Defiant Disorder This training webinar examines the causes of Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), how to recognize the signs, and how to gain strategies designed to best help children in foster care who suffer from ODD. Parenting Troubled Teens This training webinar examines why teens might be troubled, and offers strategies on how to best parent troubled teens. Placement: How to Prepare for your Foster Child This training webinar offers strategies and tips designed to help make the first few days a child is placed into your home a little easier for both the child and the family. Positive Parenting Solutions This training webinar examines what Positive Parenting is and how it can be used to best help with acts of misbehavior by children. Post Adoption Depression Syndrome This training webinar examines what Post Adoption Depression Syndrome is and how to best address it. The Power of Prayer for Foster Parents This training webinar examines how prayer can be used for today's foster parents. Protecting Yourself as a Foster Parent This training webinar examines how to best protect yourself and your family against false allegations and accusations. Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) and Children in Foster Care This training webinar examines what Reactive Attachment Disorder is, and solutions on how to best address it. Respite Care: How Respite Parents can Help Foster Families This training webinar examines how respite care can benefit all involved in foster care. Rights of Children and Youth in Foster Care This training webinar examines the rights that children and youth in foster care have. Rights and Responsibilities of Foster Parents This training webinar examines the rights and responsibilities that foster parents have. Running Away from Home: How to Prevent and to Respond This training webinar examines why children might run away, and provides solutions on how to best prevent it from happening, and how to respond when it does happen. Saying Goodbye to Children in Foster Care This training webinar examines to to best prepare to say goodbye to a child transitioning out of a foster care home, and how to best address the many emotions that may accompany this transition. Schools and Foster Children Part I: The Challenges Children in Care Face This training webinar examines the challenges that children in foster care face in school each day. Schools and Foster Children Part II: How Parents Can Help This training webinar focuses on solutions and strategies that foster parents and teachers can use when helping foster children in school. Self Harm and Self Injury in Children This training webinar examines the what self harm and self injury is in children and how to best address it. Sexual Predators and Sexting in Foster Care This training webinar examines the danger of Sexual Predators and Sexting that threaten foster children and foster parents. Sleep Anxieties and Children in Foster Care This training webinar examines why sleep anxiety might be a challenge for children in foster care and how to best address it. Transracial Parenting Part I: Caring for Children in Care of Different Cultures and Race This training webinar examines what transracial parenting is for children in foster care and how to best address the challenges involved. Transracial Parenting Part II: Caring for Bilingual Children in Care This training webinar examines how to best care for children who have different native languages than their foster families, and how to become a bilingual family. Trauma and Stress for those Involved in Foster Care This training webinar examines the various forms of trauma that foster children, foster parents, and birth parents often experience. Trauma Informed Parenting I: Understanding What Trauma Is This webinar examines what Trauma Informed Parenting is, and why it is important for foster parents as they care for children suffering with trauma while placed in their homes. Trauma Informed Parenting II: How to be a Trauma Informed Parent This webinar examines how to be a Trauma Informed Parent, and gives strategies and tips designed to care for children in a trauma informed way. ***NEW***Understanding and Responding to Neglect upon Children This training webinar examines what neglect is, how it affects children, and how to best address it. Visitations and Your Children in Foster Care This training webinar focuses upon the role of visitations for children in foster care, and the importance of it. What if He is Not Adopted: How you can Help a Youth Find Success and Empower Him for the Future After Aging Out This training webinar examines the challenges that youth face when aging out if not adopted, and how society can best help them succeed. What is Foster Care? This training webinar examines what foster care is and the roles that foster parents and caseworkers play in it. Why Children Bite and How to Respond This online training webinar offers strategies and tips designed to help foster parents better understand why a child bites and how to best address it. Why Children Lie and How to Best Address it. This training webinar examines why children might lie and how to best address it. Why Children Steal and How to Best Address it This online training webinar offers strategies and tips designed to help foster parents better understand why a child steals and how to best address it. Now, foster parents can gain a One Year UNLIMITED Access to ALL webinars for the low price of only $49.95. Click HERE to become a Special Member!This training webinar examines why foster parents might experience stress, what the causes, signs, and symptoms of stress are, and how to best manage stress when caring for children in crisis. 
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