Training Opportunities

The Children's Trust has committed to focusing on and approaching areas that improve children's lives through system-building/ refining services/programs for children's educational growth. We are committed to building our contracted Providers' knowledge base. Training directly impacts an organization by allowing providers to learn and apply new skills, enabling them to achieve high-quality results. 
 
We recognize that parents and caretakers need training opportunities to support the children in their care better. The Children's Trust will continue to look for training opportunities to pour into the families of Alachua County.

We are excited to offer the training opportunities below for Providers and Parents.

Training opportunities will be added and updated — including location and time information — as soon as available.

Upcoming Training for Providers (2024)
When Program Topic Location Registration

April 10
10 a.m. -noon

Preventing Child Abuse in Childcare Setting/ Self Care and Burnout Prevention
Hosted by the Child Advocacy Center.This 2-hour training will assist childcare providers in being able to self-identify challenges in the childcare setting that could increase and decrease the risk of child abuse in the childcare setting.  Burnout is a real risk to the individual, childcare setting, and to children.

Coldwell Banker MM Parrish Realty
5830 NW 39th Avenue
Gainesville, FL  32606

 Link to register

April 24
10-11:30 a.m.

Human Trafficking 101
Hosted by Child Advocacy Center. This 1.5-hour training will provide definitions for the different types of human trafficking, dynamics that make human trafficking possible, risk factors and needs of victims, local trends and cases of human trafficking, identification of prevention strategies for youth, parents, and providers and resources available for victims and prevention. 

Coldwell Banker MM Parrish Realty
5830 NW 39th Avenue
Gainesville, FL  32606

 Link to register

April 30

10:30-11:30 a.m.

 LanguageLine Virtual Link to register

May 1

10:00-11:00 a.m.

LanguageLine

Recording

 Virtual  Link to register

May 16
10-11:30 a.m.

Child Abuse Reporting
Hosted by Child Advocacy Center. This 1.5-hour training will identify signs and symptoms of child abuse.  Deconstruct and dispel myths of the child protection system.  Provide child abuse reporting statutes, instructions how to most effectively report child abuse and neglect, and local resources for child victims and their families.

Coldwell Banker MM Parrish Realty
5830 NW 39th Avenue
Gainesville, FL  32606

 Link to register

May 30
10 a.m. - noon

Understanding Trauma
Hosted by Child Advocacy Center. This 2-hour training will explore the difference between acute and complex trauma, history of childhood trauma, trauma and its impact on brain development, trauma responses, polyvagal theory, attachment trauma, community responses, and felt safety.

Coldwell Banker MM Parrish Realty
5830 NW 39th Avenue
Gainesville, FL  32606

 Link to register

June 10 & 11

9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Restorative Justice Practices
Hosted by River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding. The general purpose of the restorative practices 14-hour training is to provide youth programs and providers with an overview of restorative practices and how to implement them as a means of addressing behavior with non-punitive discipline strategies that empower young people and build community. 

   Link to register

August 5 & 6

9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Restorative Justice Practices
Hosted by River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding. The general purpose of the restorative practices 14-hour training is to provide youth programs and providers with an overview of restorative practices and how to implement them as a means of addressing behavior with non-punitive discipline strategies that empower young people and build community. 

   Link to register

 

Upcoming Training for Parents/Guardians (2024)
Date Program Topic Registration
June 27

Normal Childhood Sexual Development vs Problematic Sexual Behavior
Hosted by Child Advocacy Center. This 2-hour training will provide understanding of childhood sexual development, explaining the difference between sexual reactivity, problematic sexual behavior, and offending behavior, community response to sexual behaviors, explain risk factors (high risk vs low risk and evidenced based intervention).

 Link to register
TBA

Internet Safety for Children and Caregivers
Hosted by Child Advocacy Center. This 2-hour training will identify internet safety issues affecting children, prevention strategies to help educate children about dangers on the internet, online resources, and the role of caregivers in keeping children safe on the internet. The internet is a reality for children, and the adults caring for them.  Participants will learn about programs and applications that place children at risk, how to teach children about internet safety, monitoring options, and local/state/federal resources to keep children safer on the internet.

 Link to register

 

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