Come learn how psychoanalytic concepts relate to your work with children & families! We cordially invite you to a series of Lunch & Learns to introduce psychoanalytic concepts to… Read more »
Psychoanalytic Lunch & Learns
Trainings
Coffee Breaks with TXICFW: Alcohol & Pregnancy: Helping families through stigma
Addressing parental substance use is an integral part of preventing child maltreatment prevention, but it also can help prevent Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs). Nationally, 2-5% of youth are affected… Read more »
Coffee Breaks with TXICFW: Healing Through Connection: Walking alongside foster families
The Spark program at TXICFW is lucky to be connected to so many wonderful foster care support services and initiatives in our community. Over the last year, we have gotten… Read more »
Coffee Breaks with TXICFW: Pregnant While in Texas Foster Care: What’s Next?
It’s long been known that youth in foster care are much more likely to become pregnant compared to other youth, but what should we do about it? Texans Care for… Read more »
Coffee Breaks with TXICFW: Opioid Use and The Texas Child Welfare System: Fostering the whole family as prevention
We know substance use is involved in more than 2/3rds of child welfare situations and that an opioid drug crisis is currently plaguing communities across the nation. So far Texas… Read more »
Coffee Breaks with TXICFW: Legal Permanency is Not Always Permanent
November is National Adoption Month. We will be highlighting important topics about adoption throughout the month. For the first full week in November we will be exploring how adoption… Read more »
Coffee Breaks with TXICFW: Supporting Undocumented Families: Clinical Perspectives
Dr. Monica Faulkner, Anayeli Marcos, and Ana Hernández will discuss their work supporting undocumented families both in and out of detention from a social work perspective. They’ll talk about how… Read more »
Coffee Breaks with TXICFW: What Professionals Need to Know About “13 reasons why”
Join us for a Coffee Break with Amanda Barczyk, the Associate Director of Research for Dell Children’s Trauma and Injury Research Center as we discuss the popular Netflix show “13 Reasons Why”… Read more »
Coffee Breaks with TXICFW: Are teenage foster youth too old to be adopted?
Many older youth face a number of issues growing up in the foster care system. It is well known that aging-out of foster care is associated with a number of… Read more »
Coffee Breaks with TXICFW: Teen Pregnancy Prevention in Central Texas
The Travis County teen birthrate (33.2 births per 1,000 girls) sits high above the national average (22 births per 1,000 girls). Many factors come into play when trying to prevent… Read more »