Recorded Webinars
*NOTE: CEUs are not available for recorded sessions. Click on the image to be taken to the recording.
In this webinar, listeners will be educated on the bullying epidemic impacting our youth and their mental health. Listeners will learn the risk factors that accompany bullying, as well as the statistics on these issues. Listeners will also learn ways to provide assistance to youth experiencing bullying and become familiar with the resources available to provide assistance.
This presentation addresses numerous questions and concerns, such as helping students understand the lasting negative impact bullying has on others, supporting multiple roles (parents, students, staff, etc.) when experiencing bullying, identifying steps to take if a school is not addressing bullying and more!
Regulating emotional chaos can be a difficult and overwhelming task, especially in the classroom. In this webinar, learn how to respond more thoughtfully and controlled, allowing you to assist your students in regulating their emotions during the most challenging times.
This webinar would equip participants to identify healthy versus unhealthy relationships, the forms of dating abuse that youth experience, understand how frequently youth disclose abuse and the factors that impact disclosure and develop a safety plan.
In this webinar, Morgan Duffy-Simpson, Youth Support Advocate at Mission West Virginia with her MSW, will discuss why helping professionals tend to be at a higher burnout rate than other professions, what to do when burnout occurs, and how to find joy in our work again.
Ever wondered why teenagers act the way they do? 🤔 It's all in their brains! Join Dr. Jessica Sharp for a fascinating 90-minute journey into the adolescent mind. Discover the science behind teenage behavior and gain actionable tools to support their journey. Ready to unlock the secrets?
This webinar offers insight into self-harm for those struggling with self-harm, their family members and medical professionals. Evidence-based techniques that can be used to provide support and reduce and eliminate self-harming behavior are also discussed.
In this webinar, participants will discuss the stigma of STD/STIs and how to speak with youth about such a sensitive topic.
Nikki Snuffer is a mom to 8 kids adopted through foster care. She is the Relatives as Parents Liaison with Mission West Virginia and co-teaches PRIDE classes. In this course she will go over DHHR discipline policy as well as discuss her tried and true parenting tips and tricks. This one hour webinar will include a Q and A session.
Nikki Snuffer is a mom to 8 kids adopted through foster care. She is the Relatives as Parents Liaison with Mission West Virginia and co-teaches PRIDE classes. In this one-hour webinar she will define trauma, explore trauma triggers and responses, and what to do if you believe your child has been exposed to trauma.
Openness is an opportunity for the extended family of adoption – first/birth families, adoptive families and adopted people – to honor all of these important connections and embrace them as a means of ensuring healthy identity and strong relationships for all family members (most especially the child and the siblings they are connected to). Join presenter April Dinwoodie!
Through a rich and very personal lens, nationally recognized thought leader and transracially adopted person, April Dinwoodie, will candidly explore how our current shared experiences can be a gateway to better understanding of how differences of race and culture add layers to foster care and adoption.
This webinar will focus on helping parents understand the dynamics of teen dating and how to spot any red flags signifying an unhealthy relationship. Presentation will also include how to navigate the tough conversations if you do spot issues.
Puberty 101 is designed to help parents begin to talk about puberty and have a basic understanding of what to expect. Parents will learn the tools work together with their child towards a common goal of opening the lines of communication while learning about hygiene, self-care, combatting negative self-talk, and the basics of menstruation.
Puberty brings a level of volatility in attitudes, behavior, responsibility and moods that can look and feel like mental illness. Most parents experience at least some moments of concern for their children’s mental health during the puberty ages of 11 to 14. But, should you? Or is your child experiencing a normal transition into adulthood?
There is no “right” way for a survivor to respond after a traumatic event. The person may or may not be responding in the way you would expect them to or the way you would. This is normal. The impact can vary and people can respond differently based on a variety of factors. As a support person, you play a critical role in a survivor’s recovery and well-being. In this webinar, we will be defining & identifying trauma and the effects it has on the brain development and body, and how to support the victims we work with while implementing self-care in the process.
Youth need adults who are there for them—especially parents—who will connect with them, communicate with them, spend time with them, and show a genuine interest in them. Talking with teens about sex-related topics, including healthy relationships and the prevention of HIV, other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and pregnancy, is a positive parenting practice that has been widely researched.
In this webinar, participants will discuss the stigma of STD/STIs and how to speak with youth about such a sensitive topic.
In this webinar, Nikki Snuffer, Kinship Care Liaison with Mission WV will describe common food related issues that children who are in foster care commonly experience. She’ll explain different methods that she has used in her home with her own adopted children as well as long-term solutions to help families plan to help their children overcome these issues.
In this webinar, Morgan Duffy-Simpson, Teen Pregnancy Prevention Educator at Mission West Virginia with her BSW, will discuss why helping professions tend to be at a higher burnout rate than other professions, what to do when burnout occurs, and how to find joy in our work again.
In this webinar, Autumn Wagoner provided participants with foundational knowledge on eating disorders, signs and symptoms, and best practices for screening youth.
A 60-minute presentation explaining contraception method options for teens. In-depth descriptions of method effectiveness, associated side effects/precautions, and cost will be explained, along with additional medical information for an understanding of available forms of birth control for today’s teens and adolescents.
This webinar will assist individuals in learning how to be accessible and take additional steps to ensure that documents and presentations are fully accessible.
Participants will be able to identify at least three features of Microsoft PowerPoint and Word that address accessibility. Participants will be able to list at least three characteristics of text that make a presentation more accessible. Participants will be able to demonstrate how to create alt text/tags in Microsoft PowerPoint and Word.
In this webinar, our educators and youth resource coordinator take on tough parent questions.
Sarah Anders (and her husband Bryan) have been foster parents for 20 years. Their journey has included fostering 136 kids, adopting 17 and are now the proud Grandparents of 11 grandchildren. Sarah will share her experiences as a foster/adopt parent and what she wish she had known throughout the process.
Tasha Hall spent the majority of her childhood in foster care. She will speak about her personal journey, what helped her achieve success and what she wishes her foster parents had known. She will share her story and take questions from participants. This webinar will be helpful to current foster and adoptive parents, those considering fostering and anyone who wants to learn more.
Youth are 2-4 times more likely to develop a gambling problem than adults. There is a great overlap between Gambling Disorder and the recently categorized “Gaming Disorder” which focuses on internet use and video game play. We will discuss the surprising results of recent surveys of youth on the issues of gaming and gambling, and the implications, especially considering the rapid expansion of “e-sports” teams in schools.
Every child deserves to feel confident in their sense of self and in their cultural identity. For many transracial foster/adopt families, hair care becomes a point of struggle. In this webinar Elizabeth Caul, a licensed Cosmetologist with over 26 years of experience, will teach viewers basic care for naturally wavy, curly, or coily hair. She will cover topics and answer questions pertaining to sanitation and tension, hair porosity, hair type, LOC/LCO method and hair products.
Understanding trauma of youth in foster care can free young people to learn, develop, and build relationships with supportive and caring adults. In turn, this care during their formative years will enable them to transform into young adults who move beyond functioning in constant fight-or-flight survival mode. Adam Starks' training offers new ideas to go beyond the basic tenets of childhood trauma to ensure successful outcomes.
Living in poverty causes physical changes to the brain. By attending this session, participants will understand why poverty impacts the brain, how it impacts the actions of those living in poverty, and to best support low-income clients and program participants.
“Information literacy” (the ability to find, retrieve, analyze, and use online information) and “media literacy” (the ability to use critical thinking skills to analyze media messages) are essential skills for any young person using the Internet. In this workshop participants will see how students can learn these skills in school and they will receive activities to conduct with their own students and/or children.
Persons suffering from addiction make no sense to those of us who have not suffered with this disease. Why would anyone choose to shoot up with heroin and risk death, prison or follow on diseases instead of being a productive member of society? The answer begins in the very basic parts of our brain. This session will help participants better understand the brain physiology that allows opioids to take over a person’s life. By better understanding how the brain reacts to opioids we can help to end the negative stigma that has hampered our community’s response to this epidemic.
THINK Development Trainer, Rita Schoolcraft will go over some practical steps to better communicate with your teen, navigating potential pitfalls in communication and how to find “talkable” moments within your busy lives.
Webinar participants will be introduced to “digital citizenship” (the safe and responsible use of digital tools), as they see examples of how students can learn these skills in school and at home. Workshop will demonstrate why digital citizenship skills are essential during this extraordinary time that finds so many young people online, and participants will leave with digital citizenship lessons they can conduct with young people in their own lives.