Moral Injury Training Series: Understanding, Healing, and Building Resilience
Thursdays, October 23 & 30 and November 6 & 13, 2025
2:30 pm – 4:30 pm Eastern Time
With the shifts in policy priorities and accompanying uncertainties in funding, we see a growing need to focus our attention on the increasing moral injury occurring for the workforce. Moral injury occurs when individuals are put in positions where they act, or find themselves unable to act, in ways that deeply violate their personal values, leaving lasting psychological and emotional impacts. We may confuse moral injury with experiences of trauma, secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue, and burnout. Moral injury is distinct in that it originates from our experiences of ethical conflict, betrayal, or moral transgression that occur in our workplaces, communities, and in our society at large.
Join CWLA for this powerful four-part training series in which we will explore the deep psychological and emotional impacts that arise when individuals — particularly those in frontline, supervisory, or leadership roles — witness, participate in, or are unable to prevent actions that conflict with their moral or ethical beliefs. Attendees will receive practical tools and resources and learn what supervisors, leaders, and organizations can do to support recovery, foster ethical resilience, and create environments that are rooted in compassion and accountability.
Supporting Regulation in Families and Youth
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Eastern Time
CWLA invites you to join us for a webinar presentation that will demonstrate the importance of recognizing, understanding and responding effectively to the regulation needs of youth and families. Many individuals enter care because of an inability to manage their thoughts, feelings and behaviors, which create challenges for them with family members, schools, police or their community. A summary of the biology underlying regulation, the different states that result when anxiety or threats increase, and the types of support or interventions that can be helpful will be explained.
Building Blocks for Effective Co-Parenting
Thursday, November 12, 2025
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Eastern Time
Join CWLA for a webinar to explore Building Blocks for Effective Co-Parenting, an engaging, informative framework that highlights the importance of effective co-parenting. When done properly, effective co-parenting can aid and assist in the overall growth and healthy development of children.
We understand that families become separated for a variety of reasons. With the upcoming holiday season, it can be especially difficult for separated parents and their children. This webinar provides an opportunity to: recognize reasons why some relationships end; learn how these actions can impact children’s identity and self-esteem; and offer strength-based, solution-focused strategies and techniques to create consistency and support for all parties involved. Many of these core principles can be applied to all families—including birth, kin, foster, and adoptive.
Traditions of Caring and Collaborating: Kinship Trauma-Informed Model of Practice
Thursday, November 13, 2025
12:00 – 1:30 pm Eastern Time
CWLA is pleased to present an informational webinar highlighting our Traditions of Caring and Collaborating: Kinship Trauma-Informed Model of Practice (TCC). The curriculum provides a standardized framework and strength-based approach to working with relatives who are caring for their younger family members – kinship care. The TCC Model of Practice is based on a conceptual framework that identifies nine issues of concern, five competencies needed to address those issues, and four phases of working together to help achieve safety, well-being, and permanence for children. The model has guiding principles and common definitions, grounded in a caring and collaborating approach to working together to protect and nurture children and strengthen families.
The TCC Model of Practice differentiates between kinship caregivers and foster parents based on the different dynamics between the inherited role of being someone’s relative and the acquired role of volunteering to foster. Research indicates that relatives want information and support, but not necessarily formal training programs. However, if child protective services have oversight of the children, then an assessment must be made for licensing, certification, approval or whatever the legal requirements may be. Traditions of Caring and Collaborating also includes a supportive process to assess the ability, resources, and willingness of relatives to meet the safety, well-being, and permanency needs of their younger family members.
Join us to learn more about the Traditions of Caring and Collaborating: Kinship Trauma-Informed Model of Practice, accessing the curriculum, and the training opportunities available.
Using Engagement and Data to Provide Appropriate Care for Children and Youth with Emotional and Behavioral Health Challenges
Thursdays, November 20, December 4, & December 11, 2025
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Eastern Time
Determining how to provide appropriate care to children who have intense behavioral and emotional needs can be complex and challenging. When behaviors are difficult to control or efforts to address these complex needs in home or community-based care are unsuccessful, the result is youth are admitted into congregate care. The goals of this training are to address the processes used to determine referrals for behavioral health care for children and youth by looking at the referral and decision-making processes, access processes, and the infrastructure needed.
The training will also address the specific needs of youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and substance use disorders, access opportunities for youth who might otherwise have entered Juvenile Justice programs, keeping youth close to home by developing interventions based on data in their own communities, and expanding low cost options and strategies to focus on behavioral and emotional challenges while also taking into consideration the social determinants of health.
Intrafamilial Child Sexual Abuse: Insights, Interventions, Interruption and Next Steps
Mondays & Tuesdays, December 8, 9, 15 & 16, 2025
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Eastern Time
CWLA is pleased to offer an expanded training of Intrafamilial Child Sexual Abuse: Insights, Interventions, Interruption and Next Steps presented in (4) four two-hour sessions. The training sessions will share ideas and expertise to enhance participants’ understanding, assessment of and intervention with situations involving father-, father figure-daughter incest. The topics to be covered will include prevalence rates, the application of research, literature, theory and typologies to assist practitioners to conceptualize secretive and harmful behavior. Barriers to inquiry and intervention and poor outcomes for children will be discussed. Several tools, techniques and interview questions will be offered to access hidden information.
The training will use a systems perspective to examine the factors that contribute to Intrafamilial Child Sexual Abuse occurring and to isolate specific characteristics and presentations of children, those that harm, non-harming parents or caregivers and possible siblings within a family environment.
This training will situate this harmful behavior within an environment of power and control, secretiveness, family isolation, guilt and fear, cultural and religious beliefs, and provide both analytical framework and concepts for the investigation, assessment and treatment of incest occurrence.
The Next Generation PRIDE Model of Practice – Enhancement Training
Thursday, January 15 & Friday, January 16, 2026 (in person)
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 (virtual)
CWLA is pleased to continue with the release of The Next Generation PRIDE Model of Practice curriculum. This latest iteration of the training curriculum now includes person-first language, strength-based words and expressions, and the lived experience perspective.
The Next Generation PRIDE Model of Practice curriculum is an expansion of the current materials with numerous updates and additions, including new videos and new sections. It also features new topical areas such as: the impact adverse childhood experiences have on trust and attachment, how compassion fatigue affects household stability, and the importance of safeguarding children who use social media and technology.
We invite PRIDE Model of Practice licensed agencies to participate in a special refresher training opportunity focused on introducing and delivering the new components of the curriculum. This unique “enhancement training” is essential for all PRIDE Model of Practice trained staff!