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Training & Resources

Tools in Your Toolbox

One of the ways that we can find some relief is with parent training. It can help us interact with our kids in a connected way, as well as to avoid conflict, and de-escalate conflict. Here, we share helpful resources that our families have found to be supportive.

Training and Reading We Found Helpful

The Explosive Child: CPS Model

The Explosive Child: CPS Model (Collaborative & Proactive Solutions)

An experienced therapist offers  groundbreaking and compassionate techniques for helping chronically inflexible children, who suffer from excessively immoderate tempers, showing how brain-based deficits contribute to these problems and offering positive and constructive ways to calm things down.

    "Finding You" Podcast

    “Finding You” podcast with Dr. Brad Reedy of Evoke Therapy

    These broadcasts offer parents and other family members the tools, insight, and support they need to navigate life’s challenges. This free resource offers anyone the chance to improve their relationship with a child, sibling, parent, or spouse struggling with mental health or addiction issues.

    Reading Materials

    Trust Based Relational Intervention

    Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI®) 

    Strong Faith-Based Approach to Parenting Model – TBRI® is an attachment-based, trauma-informed intervention that is designed to meet the complex needs of vulnerable children. TBRI® uses Empowering Principles to address physical needs, Connecting Principles for attachment needs, and Correcting Principles to disarm fear-based behaviors. While the intervention is based on years of attachment, sensory processing, and neuroscience research, the heartbeat of TBRI® is connection.

      Michigan Alliance for Families

      • Michigan Alliance for Families offers a wide variety of training on things from IEP process to guardianship options. Many of the trainings are recorded and available in the archives.

      The Nurtured Heart Approach

      The Nurtured Heart Approach – A revolutionary approach to support and empower parents and caregivers in cultivating Inner Wealth™ in themselves and others fostering fulfilling and generative relationships.

      • The website includes a primer on NHA Approach
      • An NHA Film ‘A Better Way’
      • Courses (Both Free and Paid)

      Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

      Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT)  is a type of cognitive behavioral therapy. DBT may be used to treat suicidal and other self-destructive behaviors. It teaches patients skills to cope with, and change, unhealthy behaviors.

        Boystown

        Boystown

        At Boys Town, we provide an array of life-changing youth care and health care services that meet each child and family exactly where they are so they get the right kind of care, at the right time, in the right way. Whether caring for a child in crisis, treating complex health care conditions or helping families find the parenting resources they need, Boys Town is here for you and your family with expert, compassionate care and a proven track record of helping children and families heal and grow in mind, body and spirit.

          • Includes downloadable Tools, Parenting Guides, and Free Email Series