Foster parents and foster children go through a unique set of challenges. This training covers distinct types of stressors and their effects on your physical body, relationships, and overall-mental health. Avoiding stress may feel impossible but there are several ways to effectively manage stress. Many people have heard of the term self-care, but not everyone prioritizes practicing it. This class will go into a variety of ways to make self-care part of your daily routine. During this class, you will identify self-care practices that are already working for you and create an action plan of new self-care strategies tailored towards your current needs. This will include ways to practice self-care individually (as a foster parent or teen) as well as practice self-care as a family. 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Become informed about how to recognize you are under stress and the impact stress can have not only on your physical and mental health, but also those around you. 

• Learn about new and simple ways to prioritize your self-care. 

• Create an individualized action plan of new self-care strategies to apply to your daily life.