Be Strong Families Institute

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

This interactive workshop assists participants with understanding why certain conversations are difficult and how they could become less so.

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 3-day online workshop will prepare your team to host the internationally recognized Be Strong Families Online Vitality 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.

The heart of this session is learning a strengths-based way to engage parents in building Protective Factors to reduce toxic stress.

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.

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.

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.

This 3-day online workshop will prepare your team to effectively host the internationally recognized Be Strong Families Online Parent Cafés.