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

Training Websites

AdoptUSKids
Adoption Learning Partners - some have a fee
Alaska Center for Resource Families (ACRF), a Program of Northwest Resource Associates
Brazelton Touchpoints Center - most free, some have a fee
Center for Adoption Support and Education (C.A.S.E.)
Foster Parent College
North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC)
NTDC's Right Time Training Curriculum - article outlining the options!
ODHS Trainings
Oregon Parenting Education Collaborative Hub - free or low cost trainings, resources and more all over Oregon and Siskiyou County, CA
Oregon Post Adoption Resource Center Library Trainings - audio CDs, DVDs, digital

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 - New & Improved!

At any one time, ODHS now 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