Follow the story of a 10-year-old girl as she navigates her way through the foster care system, after being removed from her home and separated from her younger brother. You will experience what triggers causes her to react and behave the way she does. The story will give you the opportunity to witness and hopefully understand the trauma a child in foster care experiences. Objective of this training: 1. Bring awareness to the importance of foster care programs and the need for quality foster parents. 2. Empathize with foster children and the trauma they have endured. 3. Understand why foster children exhibit behavior problems.

Motor vehicle crashes remain among the leading causes of injury-related deaths and Louisiana currently has one of the highest fatality rates in the country when it comes to vehicle crashes. This training will focus on keeping both your young drivers and you safe behind the wheel. Participating in this training will help drivers increase safe driving knowledge, and hopefully encourage changing those unsafe driving behaviors.

Successful independent living is exciting and challenging. What are the practical skills and knowledge that help make it easier? This course is designed for young people and their parents or foster parents, who can help them prepare for success in their first independent living situation. This course offers tips for making a great first impression on others, understanding legal terms like lease or security deposit, apartment safety, what is nice versus what is necessary for furnishing an apartment, and how to maintain a healthy body and mind. The course also touches on auto care and cautions, living within your means, and finding ways to earn extra income. Note: Youth are encouraged to take the course with their foster parents and to go through the handouts with them and help them acquire skills that they do not yet have. Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to help their youth: - Develop SOCIAL SKILLS to make a positive first impression - Learn the basics of successful INDEPENDENT LIVING - Learn how to maintain a HEALTHY BODY AND MIND - Understand AUTO maintenance needs and what to do in an accident or when pulled over by the police - Learn the basics of finding income opportunities, budget basics, and paying off debt because MONEY MATTERS

Description: This course provides an overview of how to enter placement authorizations in TIPS. Objectives: Learn how to enter and sign placement authorizations.

This training is for service providers who have foundational knowledge about sexual exploitation and trafficking and are ready for a deeper dive into skill and practices. This training for service providers begins by exploring the Stages of Change theory and model of behavior change to deepen participant understanding of how people change and sustain new behaviors. Then, participants will learn to identify each of the 5 stages and how to shape service interventions based on each stage. Finally, practice exercises offer opportunities to apply new skills and knowledge about the Stages of Change. Learning Objectives: - Explore the Stages of Change: behavior change theory, model, and application - Learn how to recognize the six Stages of Change and target service responses to each stage - Practice identifying Stages of Change and apply model to service provider activities

This training will begin by exploring what safety is, and what it means to different people. This includes physical, emotional, psychological, financial and community contexts for safety. From there, we will explore processes for increasing safety including concrete strategies for developing safety plans with young people and clients. Learning Objectives: - Learn about different types of safety and contexts for what makes people feel safe - Explore opportunities to build safety into relationships by modeling boundaries and increasing choice and agency - Learn concrete strategies for creating and supporting implementation of safety plans