Support Groups & Training

Check out the suggest reading, support groups and trainings below designed to help caregivers feel informed, encouraged, and connected. Whether you’re looking to build new skills or find community with others who understand, we’re here for you!

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Support Groups & Training

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Support Groups

Support groups are a great way to build relationships with other foster parents. We could all use a little extra support going down this road. There are several in-person and virtual options available.
You can find these events listed below.

Upcoming:
Mid-Michigan Foster Adoptive Kinship Support Groups

Wednesday Nights
8:00-9:30p on Zoom
MEETING ID: 820 6897 7832
PASSCODE: SUPPORT

Upcoming:
Navigating The Foster Journey Support Groups

Thursdays Mid-Mornings
10a-11a on Zoom
MEETING ID: 885 2068 4349
PASSCODE: 4002787

FAK Parent Support Group

Monday Mid-Mornings
11:30a-12:30p on Zoom
Zoom Link

Foster Midland

2nd Tuesday Every Month
5:30p-7:00p
Caregiving Network
200 W. Grove St.
Midland, MI 48640

AFSN

AFSN at D.A. Blodgett - St. John's offers various support groups state wide and virtual.

Training

Come and learn with us! These may count toward your yearly educational credits.

NCTSN Learning Center

Click on images below to register for trainings.

Many of the trainings below have multiple dates, click image to register for each.

Suggested Reading

Here are some books that we recommend reading on your Foster Care Journey.

God Loves Kids

Jamie C. Finn

God loves kids, and his really good plan is for kids to grow up in loving families with everything they need to be safe, happy, and whole. But...

Healing for Every Heart in Adoption

Multiple Authors

...reveal that adoption is rooted in both loss and redemptive victory....

Caring for Kids from Hard Places

David & Jayne Schooler

Why doesn’t he act his age? Why does she behave so impulsively? Why does he have meltdowns so often? ...

Parenting By The Book

Trauma and Recovery

Foster the Family

John Rosemond

With a down-to-earth, warm, and humorous style, one of America’s top family psychologists sets forth a virtually...

Judith Herman, M.D.

Herman draws on her own cutting-edge research in domestic violence as well as on the vast literature of combat veterans...

Jamie C. Finn

There are great rewards that come along with being a foster parent, yet there are also great challenges that can...

The Body Keeps Score

Disconnected Kids

Reframing Foster Care

Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.

In The Body Keeps the Score, Dr. Bessel Van der Kolk uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes...

Dr. Robert Melillo

The proven, drug-free program to treat the cause-not just the symptoms-of autism spectrum disorders and related...

Jason Johnson

ReFraming Foster Care
is a collection of reflections on the foster parenting journey designed to help you do just...