Description

Substance Use is an ongoing challenge for many that impacts everyone in the family. From children to adults, coping with the substance use of a family member can have lasting effects including emotional, psychological, financial, and medical health challenges to name a few. These challenges can lead to increased stress for family members which then leads to a reduced overall quality of life. Join us for this insightful webinar as we discuss common substance use scenarios that often are experienced in kinship families, how this substance use effects kinship children and their caregivers, as well as strategies that allow caregivers to improve care for yourself and your family, while offering support to your loved one.

 

About the Trainer:

Sue Badeau trains, consults and speaks nationally and internationally on trauma, racial justice, family engagement, self-care and more and serves on the Boards of the Association for Training and Treatment of Trauma in Children (ATTACh), The Center for Pediatric Traumatic Stress and Imara International. She is an in-demand consultant for numerous public and private child welfare, youth and adult justice and mental health agencies, courts, prison systems, and other organizations in the USA, Canada and Kenya. Sue and her husband, Hector are lifetime parents of 22, two by birth, 20 adopted and have also been foster parents to 75 and hosted refugees from Kosovo and Sudan. They have co-authored Are We There Yet: The Ultimate Road Trip, Adopting and Raising 22 Kids and Building Bridges of Hope: A Coloring Book for Adults Caring for Children Who Have Experienced Trauma and other books.

 

Please note: Although this LIVE webinar is designed to be an informative, educational, and helpful resource for kinship families caring for relative or fictive kin children, anyone is welcome to attend including foster parents, professionals, students, or community members.

It is our hope that by participating in this LIVE webinar, attendees will receive educational and helpful information. However, it is important to note that this webinar is not approved for foster parent training credit or CEU’s as attendance is not monitored during the webinar event.