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Webinar Recordings

The following are of interest to all parents and caregivers. As noted below, the length of each recording varies. Many have materials you can download to help transfer what you learn to your work with children and families.

Parenting Kids in Care

This webinar explores why “normal” experiences are so important and describes how to implement North Carolina’s “reasonable and prudent parent standard.”
Watch 60-minute webinar recording (60 min.)
Download Handouts (2.7 MB)
This webinar shares information to enhance participants’ ability to help parents care for child welfare-involved children with ADHD, with a special focus on monitoring and oversight of treatment modalities, including psychotropic medication.
Watch 78-minute webinar recording (60 min.)
Download Handouts (1 MB)
This webinar profiles effective child-focused adoption preparation activities in use in North Carolina today and teaches concrete strategies for what to say, and what to try when young people say “no” to adoption.
Watch 82-minute webinar recording (90 min.)
Download Handouts (1 MB)

Working with Others

This webinar is intended for child welfare agencies and local education agencies to explore the Every Student Succeeds Act, responsibilities of Local Education Agencies (LEAs), responsibilities of Local Department of Social Services (DSS), and examples of collaboration at the local level.
Watch 100-minute webinar recording (90 min.)
Download Handouts (2.2 MB)
Domestic violence is a common trauma faced by children in the child welfare system. To keep children safe and help their families heal and prosper, child welfare professionals must have a wide variety of skills. This webinar focuses on two of the most important: (1) identifying and engaging batterers and (2) crafting effective family service agreements.
Watch 90-minute webinar recording (60 min.)
Download Handouts (2.2 MB)
This webinar is an introduction to North Carolina’s child and family team (CFT) process and how GALs can be involved.
Watch 45-minute webinar recording (60 min.)
National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare’s (NCSACW) Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders: Supporting Kinship Families focused on the unique challenges that arise when parents of children in care have a substance use or mental health disorder. These challenges include ensuring access to specific developmental services for infants and children with prenatal substance exposure, as well as tending to children’s emotional, physical, and behavioral issues across developmental stages.
Watch 90-minute webinar recording (90 min.)