This Strive Online course equips you with practical strategies and insights for addressing some of the most challenging situations that arise during family time. It takes an in-depth look at five key areas that strongly influence the quality and success of family time:
Conflict Resolution & Verbal De-Escalation with Parents
In this training, we will explore how trauma can affect the way people act and communicate, and we’ll give you simple, effective tools to help calm tense situations and handle conflict in a way that feels safe and respectful for everyone involved.
Engaging Parents in Virtual Family Time
Builds provider confidence in facilitating structured, trauma-informed virtual Family Time. Covers essential components, provider roles and responsibilities, and strengths-based strategies to support engagement and emotional regulation.
Maintaining Confidentiality During Family Time
In this training, we cover how to maintain confidentiality in the context of child welfare involvement and family time. You will learn what confidentiality means, why it is critical, and how to protect families’ private information. The training also reviews your legal and ethical responsibilities, exceptions to confidentiality, and practical strategies for handling common challenges.
Parental Substance Use and Family Time
This training focuses on substance use in the context of child welfare and family time. It shares strategies for managing substance abuse concerns during family time. It is designed for family time providers to ensure that family time remains a safe and positive experience for children affected by parental substance use.
Understanding Family Dynamics
In this course, you will deepen your understanding of how family dynamics can impact interactions during family time. You will be able to recognize the signs that these dynamics may be affecting young children. Through practical strategies and real-life scenarios, you will learn how to respond effectively to challenging family dynamics and to support healthy parent-child interactions.
Understanding Grief and Loss in Child Welfare
This course covers the different types of grief and loss that children, parents, and caregivers often experience within the child welfare system. You will explore how grief can impact emotions, behaviors, and family interactions during family time, and you will gain trauma-informed strategies to help you support children and families as they navigate grief and loss during family time.
Writing Behaviorally Anchored Reports
Strengthens provider skills in objective Family Time documentation. Focuses on using neutral, behavior-based language aligned with departmental guidelines to support supervision and court decision-making.
1. Conflict Resolution and Verbal De-Escalation with Parents
2. Maintaining Confidentiality During Family Time
3. Parental Substance Use and Family Time
4. Understanding Family Dynamics
5. Understanding Grief and Loss in Child Welfare
$99 Per Learner
Email striveonline@gmail.com for group pricing
Registration gives you “24/7” access for 90 days. You can complete lessons wherever and whenever you want, and you can review past lessons as many times as you need.
Do you work for a child welfare agency? Your agency may be eligible for Title IV-E funding to help cover the cost of training—check with your state child welfare agency or training provider.
Are you a Washington State child welfare provider? Please visit our WA provider page.