Training:

Part 1: Parenting Kids Who Struggle with Essential Relationship Skills (C.A.S.E.)

Apr 24
Thursday, April 24, 2025 – 4:00pm
4:00pm - 5:30pm

Presented by Eileen Devine through Center for Adoption Support and Education (C.A.S.E.)

Part 1: Parenting Kids Who Struggle with Essential Relationship Skills

Thursday, April 24, 2025

7:00-8:30pm EST | $15

(4-5:30 PM Pacific)

Neuroscience research teaches us that there are environmental factors, teratogens, and other pre- or post-natal toxic stress such as trauma, alcohol exposure, and drug exposure that can impact the developing brain. Our experience also tells us that many children who have been impacted in such ways struggle to have successful relationships with others in their lives whether it be friends, siblings, or other family members. Why is this, exactly? Additionally, why do the standard, commonly accepted support and discipline techniques fail when applied to these kids? And, most importantly, what can parents do to support these children and teens differently (and more successfully) when it comes to being in reciprocal relationships with others? Part 1 of Eileen’s training will provide information on how to understand the root cause of these relational challenges in kids and teens who live with neurobehavioral challenges from a Brain First lens.

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Part 2: How to Help Build Your Child's Relationship Skills Through the Development of Meaningful Accommodations

Thursday, May 29, 2025

7:00-8:30pm EST | $15

In Part 2 of Eileen’s two-part training, Eileen will take participants through the steps that parents and caregivers can take to support their child or teen from a Brain First lens, by focusing on the lagging skills that need to be supported, so that their child or teen can experience more success in their relationships with others in their lives. She will teach participants what neuroscience research tells us about the brain-behavior connection, what it means for one to have a brain that works differently resulting in lagging cognitive skills, and the steps parents can take to move the focus away from the challenging behavior and instead focusing on the skill that needs accommodations and supports to grow over time.

Center for Adoption Support and Education, Provider #1972, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 3/3/2025 – 3/3/2026. Social workers completing this course receive 1.5 general continuing education credits.

Location:

Center for Adoption Support & Education (C.A.S.E) – WEBINAR


Presenter - Eileen Devine


About Eileen Devine, LCSW

Eileen Devine is a licensed clinical social worker and founder of Brain First Parenting. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and two teenage children. She has more than 20 years of clinical experience and for the last 10 of those years, has focused solely on supporting parents across the globe, all of whom have kids with neurobehavioral conditions.

Eileen has been extensively trained in the neurobehavioral model through FASCETS as well as the Collaborative Problem Solving model through ThinkKids. In addition to her one-to-one and group work with parents, she facilitates dozens of workshops and trainings each year for parents, teachers, and mental health professionals and is a trainer for the Center for Adoption Support and Education’s (C.A.S.E.) accredited Training for Adoption Competency (TAC) Program, where she instructs other clinicians across the state of Oregon on what it means to be an adoption and foster competent therapist.

In addition to her clinical expertise, Eileen is the adoptive parent of a teenage daughter who lives with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD).