Ongoing Online Training

Learning helps us all be better at what we do! There are so many quality FREE or low cost trainings to choose from. Explore a multitude of options below available to you all year round. For more time-sensitive offerings, visit ORPARC's Training Calendar or the ODHS Ongoing Resource Parent Trainings Calendar. Feeling overwhelmed with all the choices? Feel free to reach out to ORPARC staff for help and suggestions.

General FREE Online Training

*available for a limited time

Better Together: Exploring Mental Health - series supporting parenting during tough times
Positive Discipline & Stress Free Parenting Courses - so many to choose from!
Special Education Distance Learning Webinars by FACTOregon (English & Español)
Stress, Distress & Trauma Video Series by Bruce Perry and Neurosequential Network
The Arc: 2020 State Virtual Convention by The Arc Oregon - related to Intellectual/ Developmental Disabilities

Training Websites

Adoption Learning Partners
Alaska Center for Resource Families (ACRF), a Program of Northwest Resource Associates
Brazelton Touchpoints Center FREE Webinars and Archived - early parenting
Center for Adoption Support and Education (C.A.S.E.)
Foster Parent College
North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC)
Oregon Parenting Education Collaborative Hub - free or low cost trainings, resources and more all over Oregon and Siskiyou County, CA

YouTube Channels

Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University
Child Trauma Academy Channel
Think:Kids - collaborative problem solving
Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) by the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development

ODHS Resource Parent Training

At any one time, ODHS has dozens of LIVE virtual ongoing trainings available! Explore training offerings, requirements and more. All topics count toward parent training hours.

Classes for Family Caregivers