UPCOMING VIRTUAL LEARNING
Intro Restorative Parenting
When: February 4, 2026
Time: 12pm – 1pm PT
Cost: $35.00
Registration: Event Brite
Location: Zoom
Description: An introduction to Restorative Parenting. Restorative Parenting is a practical, trauma-informed training for caregivers and practitioners working with adolescents. Across three sessions you’ll learn adolescent development and trauma impacts, practice de-escalation and grounding techniques, and build restorative, culturally responsive approaches to discipline, accountability, and caregiver self-care.
Restorative Parenting Training Institute
When: March 7, 14, 21, 2026
Time: 2pm – 4pm(EST), 1pm – 3pm(CST), 11am – 1pm (PST)
Suggested Donation: $100.00
Registration: Opens January 21, 2026
Location: Zoom
Description: Restorative Parenting is a practical, trauma-informed training for caregivers and practitioners working with adolescents. Across three sessions you’ll learn adolescent development and trauma impacts, practice de-escalation and grounding techniques, and build restorative, culturally responsive approaches to discipline, accountability, and caregiver self-care.
Objectives
Describe core adolescent developmental milestones, trauma responses, and the neurobiological effects of trauma to explain how these shape youth behavior and needs.
Demonstrate at least three trauma-informed communication and containment techniques (e.g., grounding, SIEK tools, trauma-informed conversations) through role-play to de-escalate and support youth in distress.
Apply restorative parenting principles to design trauma-informed discipline and accountability plans that balance safety, empathy, and boundaries for individual youth scenarios.
Identify signs of secondary/vicarious trauma, articulate culturally grounded self-care strategies (including the Medicine Wheel/culture-of-care concepts), and create a personal plan to reduce caregiver burnout.
Introduction to Antiracism for Youth Workers
When: October 17th & 24th, 2026
Time: 9am – 1pm
Registration: CLOSED
Location: Vine Street Community Center, Boston, MA
Description: This experiential workshop introduces participants to the principles of antiracism and aims to increase understanding of the relationship between racist ideas and policy from a youth worker perspective. In the two sessions youth workers will build relationships, strengthen networks while engaging in learning. The first component of the series will focus on establishing a brave space, getting to know each other and the concepts/content of the training. Then through activities and discussions participants began to strategize on how they can apply what they have learned into their day to day work. Tools are provided to support youth workers assess how to reduce racial iniquities in their work through policy, practices and ongoing analysis.
Institute: Support Training for Aware & Resilient Staff (S.T.A.R.S)
When: Every Tuesday and Thursday (April & March 2026)
Time: 9am – 1pm
Registration: CLOSED
Location: Consortium for Professional Development, Boston Public Health Commission
Description: The S.T.T.A.R.S. program at the Boston Public Health Commission continues to support resilience among participants as they work in a public health system impacted by the health of the residents they serve in the City of Boston. Participants increase there understanding of the different ways in which traumatic stress resulting from COVID has impacted them. Participants explore and practice different strategies and techniques to counter the stressors of personal and professional life. This training is filled with a list of activities that support learning, relaxation, and healing. There are three modules.