Description

Join us to learn, reflect, and strengthen the foundation of love and healing you’re already building. This webinar is designed specifically for kinship caregivers who want to better understand what’s beneath the behaviors they see—and learn gentle, practical ways to support connection, growth, and emotional safety. Together, we’ll explore how adversity shapes the developing brain, and how everyday interactions, routines, and relationships can help rewire those pathways toward healing.

Let us support you—your understanding, your confidence, and your connection with the children you care for.

We’ll Cover:

1. • • What Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Are & How They Affect Development – Gain a clear understanding of the ACEs research and how trauma can influence emotions, behavior, learning, and relationships.
     • How to Respond to Trauma-Related Behaviors with Compassion – Learn simple, realistic ways to interact that build trust, safety, and connection—even on tough days.
     • The Power of Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs) – Discover how joy, belonging, and consistency can protect and heal the brain—no matter the child’s past.
     • Practical Ways to Build Healing into Everyday Life – Walk away with a list of doable strategies you can start using immediately in your home.

About the Trainer:

Angela Jamison, MSW, CSW, LSW  is an adoptive mother of five in the Northern Bluegrass region. After fifteen years as a foster parent, she pursued her Master of Social Work from the University of Kentucky, graduating in December of 2023 with her MSW and a Trauma Responsive Practice Certificate. Following graduation, she obtained her CSW from the state of Kentucky and her LSW from the state of Ohio. She is passionate about sharing her love and knowledge of mental health, foster / kinship care and adoption with families and does so by partnering with Children’s Mental Health Resource Center as their Training and Outreach Director, Foster Care and Adoption Specialist as well as running her own nonprofit aimed at reducing stigma, educating the greater society, and empowering individuals in their foster, adoptive, and mental health journeys. With her children – four teenagers and a five-year-old – she loves traveling, reading and going to the movies. She also loves regular date nights with her husband, trying new restaurants, and getting pedicures!

 

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.