If you purchased a membership at the begining of 2020, please know your membership will be extended. Foster Change is currently working on keeping you supported. We will be in contact soon with available Virtual Classes and Community Connections Meetings. Thank you so much for your patience!
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April is Prevent Child Abuse Month. Blue pinwheels are the traditional symbol of prevention.
Make your own garden of pinwheels in your front yard and stand against child abuse!.
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On March 13th, Las Vegas started to change. We were told to distance ourselves socially to flatten the curve. There was fear, uncertainty, so many were left without employment, while some of us struggled to adjust to the new normal of working in different ways.
The Foster Change Board of Directors knows that this is an incredibly difficult time. As foster and adoptive parents ourselves, we are also wondering for how long is this going to be our new normal? While we wait for life to begin to return to a more typical schedule, we are
providing several online training options for the month of April to help you grow your skills while at home. In addition, we want to reassure Foster Change members that while the stay at home order lasts, your membership is on hold, and will be extended so you can take full advantage of the in person training, groups, and events.
In addition, if a board member has yet to reach out to you, please know we will be checking in over the coming weeks to make sure you have what you need during this time. You can also call our office at 702-
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Book recommendation: The Body Keeps The Score by: Bessel Van der Kolk
"This book has been a game changer for me in understanding the trauma that my kids have experienced and ways to help them overcome. It is a very hard read but after trying and failing to read it multiple times, I found it on audio book! You can download Hoopla and enter your library card number and listen to it for free! I've now listened to it twice and I'm still learning more." -Carly Souza
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Hannah's Closet Curbside Assistance
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If you have a new placement or are needing immediate assistance with clothing. Curb Side pick up is still available at Hannah's Closet South. Please contact them directly for more information.
Fact: Both locations have their own operating hours. You can find the South operating hours
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Do You Need Support? (Online)
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Please fill out this form if you are interested in support through Zoom Meetings. We want to be there for you in this time of need. We understand that kids are home and times are ususally not ideal. This form provides three different times to chose from. If there are enough people that sign up, we will be in contact with you.
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Free Nurturing Parenting Class
**Re-licensing Hours**
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Foster Kinship and CPLC are offering free parenting classes. These evidence-based sessions focus on nurturing children and developing positive discipline methods in order to reduce our stress as caregivers and increasing healthy behaviors.
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This parenting class is held over three sessions:
Available through Zoom Conferencing.
RSVP is required! 702-546-9988.
TIP: This is a also great class to take with the birth parents if you are co-parenting and working on reunification!
We will send you the access code once we have you signed up for class.
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❤❤Car Seat Online Class❤❤
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Foster Kinship/Foster Change is pleased to now offer an online car seat safety education course! Kinship caregivers who are in the licensing process with DFS with children 0-6 will need to complete a car seat safety course as part of the process.
We look forward to helping families continue the licensing process during this challenging time.
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How can caring adults best support children who have experienced trauma during this crisis?
QPI Families, we're pleased to announce our next live web event, "Heart to Heart: Caregiver and Child Connections in Times of Challenge", the fourth webinar offered as part of our QPI resource series, COVID-19: The New Normal.
In "Heart to Heart: Caregiver and Child Connections in Times of Challenge", Dr. Barbara Stroud will provide concrete research-based ideas for using the healing power of relationships to work with children while caring for yourself as well. Barbara Stroud, PhD, is a licensed psychologist with over three decades worth of culturally informed clinical practice in early childhood development and mental health.
Please join us for this 90-minute webinar on Tuesday, April 21st at 12 pm Pacific / 2 pm Central / 3 pm Eastern.
You can register here for "Heart to Heart: Caregiver and Child Connections in Times of Challenge":
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If you are working on your license (kinship caregivers who have children with an open DFS case), there are two required QPI videos that you have to watch for licensing:
Normalcy
and
Emergency Preparedness
. We have created study guides for the required videos licensed caregivers much watch for re-licensing hours.
Click here
to view our available study guides.
We continue to offer our computers for you to use at our office in order to complete videos required for licensing and re-licensing, please call to request an appointment (702) 970-4546.
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If you are a licensed caregiver and it is time time to renew, you will be required to complete 12 hours of online training through QPInevada.org. There are six hours of training's you are required to take, and the rest you can choose.
We have created study guides for the required training's and nine more we recommend that will equal 12 hours. Click
HERE
for the study guides, or give us a call and we'd be happy to provide it for you!
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Adoption Exchange - Online Training
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The Adoption Exchange offers free online training for Foster and Adoptive Parents. Please register first to gain access to online learning. If you already have an account with The Adoption Exchange please log in and take advantage of the free training.
The Adoption exchange also offers a lending library which is an excellent post-adoption service. Please click on the link below for more information.
Upcoming Training's
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ONLINE TRAINING ANNOUNCEMENT/April 20 & 22, 2020
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Talking To Your Children About COVID-19
Webinar Series with the National Foster Parent Association and Centene presented by Heather Ford, MHA, MSW
We will discuss measures to keeping families safe and highlight the practice everyday preventive actions to help reduce risks of getting sick. These actions are especially important to help protect older adults, people with compromised immune systems and underlying chronic medical conditions."
Participants will have more insight into:
- What is COIVD-19?
- Helping Children Make Sense of the Virus
- Supporting your Child
- Tips for Sharing Information with Children
- How to Reduce Risk
- What “to do” if I get Sick?
- Managing Anxiety and Stress
REGISTER HERE
This is a live event.
Attendees will need to log into the GoToTraining room and will also need to connect to audio either via their device or call into the conference number. Each attendee must be in the GoToTraining Room individually and be able to access the audio to receive credit for being in attendance.
No continuing education is available for this event including no NBCC credit.
Please log in at least 15 minutes early to account for any technical difficulties.
Registration for this event closes 15 minutes prior to the training.
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Understanding Secondary Traumatic Stress for Parent Group Leaders
April 30, 3:00–4:30 p.m. eastern time
In this 90-minute webinar, the presenter will share strategies for support group leaders to manage secondary traumatic stress, both for themselves and for their group members. You will learn the signs and symptoms of secondary traumatic stress and ways to avoid burnout.
Presenter: Sue Badeau: nationally known speaker, writer, and consultant, and experienced group leader and adoptive parent.
Audience: New or experienced parent group leaders, staff of public or private agencies that offer parent groups, and individuals considering starting parent groups.
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Understanding Secondary Traumatic Stress for Parent Group Leaders
April 30, 3:00–4:30 p.m. eastern time
In this 90-minute webinar, the presenter will share strategies for support group leaders to manage secondary traumatic stress, both for themselves and for their group members. You will learn the signs and symptoms of secondary traumatic stress and ways to avoid burnout.
Presenter: Sue Badeau: nationally known speaker, writer, and consultant, and experienced group leader and adoptive parent.
Audience: New or experienced parent group leaders, staff of public or private agencies that offer parent groups, and individuals considering starting parent groups.
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Virtual Conference Opportunity
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We are excited for this new opportunity even though the decision to cancel our in-person event was a painful one. This smaller virtual conference will enable our community of parents, professionals, and others touched by child welfare to hear from some of the best speakers on key topics in adoption, permanency, and foster care!
We are still in the planning stages for the virtual event—which will be held August 26 to 29—and will post more information as it’s available. For the latest updates, follow NACAC on
Facebook
.
We hope you will join us this August!
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Food Banks and Families First Information
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Food Banks
There are many locations in Nevada where families can get free and reduced food.
Clark County Food Resources
Three Square offers an interactive website which matches your zip code to food banks and provides the food bank’s days and times of operation.
Phone: (702) 644-3663
Just One Project offers free groceries for individuals and groups. Below is a quick snapshot of what they offer and a link to their site.
- The Mobile Food Market is: A mobile community market in Southern Nevada called Pop Up & Give at various locations. There are no requirements to be served.
- The Senior Food Market is: Open weekly on Monday's and Friday's BY APPOINTMENT ONLY to serve seniors 60+ in need of food. To make an appointment call the office. The pantry is stocked with specialized foods for proper senior nutrition. The Just One Project welcomes all senior individuals and groups. There are no requirements to receive groceries and no lines to wait in. Seniors are welcome to attend the pantry once a month for grocery needs.
- The Senior Grocery Delivery is: Grocery delivery made available for seniors Monday through Friday. Schedule BY APPOINTMENT ONLY.
- Emergency Assistance is: FREE Groceries for Families. The Just One Project pantry is open weekly BY APPOINTMENT ONLY to serve families in need of emergency food assistance. To make an appointment call the office. They welcome all individuals and families in need. There are no requirements to receive groceries and no lines to wait in.
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Phone: 702-462-2253
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Families First COVID-19 Toolkit
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Foster Change
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