Build self esteem, without creating praise junkies or egotistical self-centered children. They also increase children’s immunity to peer pressure and can prevent sibling rivalry.

If you want to provide live virtual Continuing Education webinars and have them turned into online courses through which you can continue to educate and serve, but don't have the tech skills to produce them, partner with RTITI! We provide the CEU approval and course production. You just apply, tell us what you want to provide, then show up and present! We'll do the rest.

Children with a trauma history often experience intense emotions or have difficulty expressing them, so they show up in their behavior. Discover how to use and model “F-A-X Listening,” a three-step process that opens the door to communication, helps develop emotional intelligence, supports appropriate expression and processing of emotions, and teaches children how to responsibly solve problems and resolve conflicts.

There are many cultures that offer mindsets and practices that have existed for generations because the “work.” Now, science is explaining why. Attend this webinar to learn what some of these practices are while assessing your mastery of qualities that will reduce your stress and increate your effectiveness as a practitioner.

The first Essential Element of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) Trauma Toolkit is “Maximize the child's sense of safety.” It is not enough for children to be safe - "felt safety" only registers in the children’s physiology and neurochemistry if the children know they are safe.  This workshop will help participants understand the impact of complex trauma on feelings of safety and how to apply ...

Do your clients' have chronic stress and an inability to manage their emotions? Research has shown this has a detrimental effect on mental and physical health and relationships. So it's important to know how to use, model, and teach emotional regulation.

Join guest speaker Lindsey Burhardt, Author & Director of Prevention Initiatives at Families Flourish ND, for a live webinar exploring how to teach children personal boundaries, body awareness, autonomy, and consent. Gain practical, age-appropriate strategies to empower kids, strengthen confidence in expressing needs and limits, and reduce the risk of child sexual abuse while promoting lifelong healthy relationships.

Learn the top ten most effective and practical language and action tools for fostering internal motivation, building self-esteem, getting cooperation, and teaching children tasks, behaviors, values and self-responsibility. Get short-term results and long-term benefits — without stickers or bribes — while preventing or defusing power struggles and tantrums.

Many parenting tips are quick fixes that “work” but have negative long-term consequences. Some “evidence-based” parenting programs even teach tactics not supported by research! This course offers criteria for evaluating parenting advice, tells you which parenting practices “work” will backfire long-term, and gives a simple “prevention formula” that teaches positive behavior and internal motivation.

Prevent stress from bubbling over and anger from erupting by using the practical tools in this workshop. Discover two simple steps any adult or child can take to create an individualized stress and anger management plan. Understand what’s happening under the surface during anger, how trauma triggers get wired in, and how toxic emotions can create dis-ease. Then learn how to de-program and re-wire these cellular m...

Cooperation with Child Protective Service Agencies is required of Foster Parents. Foster Parents rely upon the Child Protective Services Agencies to provide guidance. Often, Foster Parents disagree with policies or decisions made by Child Protective Services Agencies and do not know where to turn for help.  Understanding the Legal Framework of Child Protection Service Agencies will provide Foster Parents: help un...

Complete this 18-hours series, with videos of LIVE foster-adoptive parent training workshops! Lay a balanced foundation upon which to build your family, then use research-based, trauma-informed, proven-effective, parenting skills to support the children you care for to heal from their trauma and regain developmental delays. This course is a pre-requisite for Foster-Adoptive Parents Toolshop® Trainer certification.

Security through bonding and attachment is the first foundational developmental task upon which all other human development builds on. As social beings, humans need nurturing touch throughout the lifespan, for healthy psychological, social, emotional development and healthy interpersonal relationships.  Parenting children with histories of trauma can be tricky for many reasons, especially when it comes to navigat...

A comprehensive overview of an evidence-based, trauma-informed curriculum offering a reliable formula for finding effective individualized responses to parenting challenges. Discover effective, practical language and action tools for fostering internal motivation, boosting self-esteem, getting cooperation, building independence, improving communication, and understanding and effectively responding to misbehavior.

Children in foster care have a vastly higher rate of trauma than their non-foster peers. All adults in these children’s lives must have an understanding of the role trauma plays in their behavior and achievement of developmental milestones. Each child will manifest their trauma differently. Participants will learn ways to help improve functioning and how to work with the mental health system.

On-Line T.I.P.S. is THE Most Comprehensive, Advanced Parents Toolshop® Course There Is — It’s Like Getting a Degree in Parenting! With every module, you gain a deeper understanding of yourself and your child. You learn new skills that prevent and resolve the most common challenges all parents face. You'll even get little tweaks for the skills you already have, to get even better results. Best of all, you'll get ...

Introducing new children into your foster-adoptive family can create sibling conflicts & rivalry. This webinar shows how to prevent these issues and practical tools for empowering siblings to resolve their own issues respectfully.

In today’s digital age, parents are raising children in uncharted territory — where technology reshapes independence and development. This course explores how screen time and modern parenting trends impact resilience, maturity, and growth. Gain evidence-based insights, tools, and strategies to raise confident, well-adjusted children despite digital challenges.

More people are regularly using recreational marijuana, legally, even though it's far more potent and dangerous than anything in the past. Professionals need the latest information to monitor client responses and beliefs about this important issue in health care for all ages.

 Children in foster care have experienced trauma. As caregivers, you may have experienced personal traumas. You may experience secondary trauma from hearing of the traumas the youth have experienced or from dealing with their resulting behaviors and reactions.  Attend this webinar to learn more about: “What is secondary trauma?” How do you know if you might have experienced it? What you can choose to do to prevent...

In this highly experiential virtual course you'll learn the evidence-based Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), also called Tapping. Mental Health professionals use EFT with their clients to address stress, anxiety and trauma relief. Now you can get in on this brain/based technique that is easy to learn, works automatically and quickly.  Expect to interact more in the second half of the course where we will practic...

Parents and children are having far more mental health issues than in the past. What role might social media be playing in that? This webinar explains the biological process of how social media and emotional addictions can affect mental health. Learn how can families reap the benefits and reduce the risks.

What do you do when your child is too young to talk about their stress, anxiety and fears? How can you teach them self-regulation and self-calming skills if they are too young to understand or too stressed to learn? In this webinar, Tijana Coso, BA, MA, Certified EFT trainer will teach you how to use EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), a super-simple tapping system, with children and how to teach it to children.

There are 4 types of "typical" tantrums and then there are trauma-related tantrums, which have unique characteristics and must be handled in specific ways. This webinar will briefly review the four typical tantrums, then spend focused time on trauma tantrums. Come learn more about what causes them, what triggers them, and how to respond in a trauma-informed way.

Children in foster care have a vastly higher rate of trauma than their non-foster peers. All adults in these children’s lives must have an understanding of the role trauma plays in their behavior and achievement of developmental milestones. Each child will manifest their trauma differently. Participants will learn ways to help improve functioning and how to work with the mental health system.

Millions of parents use "behavior management" tactics with children and the #1 treatment for autistic children is ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis). These tactics are considered "evidence-based" but 60 years of research show they are ineffective and counter-productive, and today’s researchers argue that it's harmful! Attend this webinar for details and better tools to reach your positive parenting goals.

Trauma affects children in ways that many adults, both parents and professionals, don’t recognize as trauma, so they react to them in ways that aren’t working and may be making matters worse. This webinar reveals the Top Ten Truths about Trauma and offers tips EVERY ADULT NEEDS TO KNOW to reverse the effects before the trauma has lifelong consequences.

Adopting a child is a complex decision. This one-hour webinar offers research-based strategies to support pre-adoptive and adoptive families, grounded in our theoretical framework and study of 35 prospective adoptive parents. Learn how to tailor interventions, foster communication, and apply practical insights to guide families through their adoption journey.

Children who have been abused or neglected aren't the only ones with trauma. Since the body experiences chronic stress as a trauma, children experiencing prolonged periods of illness, isolation, and bullying or events like natural disasters, death, and other “adverse childhood experiences” may show signs of trauma. So, EVERY parent needs to be trauma-informed, to recognize signs and respond in trauma-informed ways.

Mutilating, cutting, burning and other forms of self-injurious behavior by youth are often seen by professionals and others as suicide-related behaviors. This webinar explains how such behaviors are often the result of past trauma or abuse. Learn the causes and scope of these behaviors and how to respond helpfully. When you attend this webinar, you will:1.      Examine some of the statistics related to both suicid...

Featuring Robert Rhoton Psy D., LPC, D.A.A.E.T.S., CEO of Arizona Trauma Institute, LLC Trauma is an emotional response to an intense activation of the child’s nervous system, this can happen from an event, more commonly from environments of Toxic Stress and repeated adversity. The harm can be physical or emotional, real or perceived.  Unfortunately the largest contributor to trauma, toxic stress and adversity is...

See a parenting “style show” that reveals which parenting practices will get the long-term results you want. Discover the secrets for building healthy parenting habits and working together as a team with your parenting partners, including caseworkers and birth parents. 

When children refuse tasks or seem unmotivated, it’s easy to label them as lazy. This training looks deeper, showing how intrinsic motivation develops, and how trauma, chronic stress, and external rewards can disrupt it—leading to skill gaps, power struggles, and discouragement. You’ll learn why common approaches backfire and gain practical tools to help children engage, persist, and succeed.

Do you ever wonder if your spouse or one of your co-workers is from another planet?  How irritated do you get when that client shows up 30 minutes early for an appointment one more time?  Do you get frustrated that a task you find so difficult a coworker or family member finds so easy? The knowledge we have about the brain, and its natural tendency towards having a ...

 Drug addiction is sending more children into the foster care system. In Ohio, about half of all children who enter foster care have drug addicted parents. Being in foster care is a predictive factor for addiction. In this session we will look at the link between trauma and addiction, and discuss therapeutic responses that promote resilience rather than re-traumatization. 

This webinar focuses on the power of nurture, combined with proactive interventions, empowering resource parents to identify the skills, knowledge and resources that will support their ability to optimize outcomes for at-risk children who experience prenatal substance exposure.

Starting and Growing a Family Life Education & Coaching Practice may seem like an overwhelming idea, unless you understand what steps to take, the importance of each step, and have easy-to-follow directions for moving from one step to the next, in a logical order. Whether you want to start a non-profit or for-profit business, are just starting out, or want to fill in gaps in your business plan, you’ll find ey...

If you want to provide live virtual Continuing Education webinars and have them turned into online courses through which you can continue to educate and serve, but don't have the tech skills to produce them, partner with RTITI! We provide the CEU approval and course production. You just apply, tell us what you want to provide, then show up and present! We'll do the rest.

On-Line T.I.P.S. is THE Most Comprehensive, Advanced Parents Toolshop® Course There Is — It’s Like Getting a Degree in Parenting! With every module, you gain a deeper understanding of yourself and your child. You learn new skills that prevent and resolve the most common challenges all parents face. You'll even get little tweaks for the skills you already have, to get even better results. Best of all, you'll get ...

You’ve heard about The Parent’s Toolshop® and its unique Universal Blueprint®, but don't have the time to learn it in detail. In what little spare time you do have, you like reading parenting books and listening to self-help audiobooks. So you’d like to take a Parent’s Toolshop® class at your own pace and on your own time.  If this sounds like you, then you’ll be glad to know Parent’s Toolshop® offers a Basic T.I....