Training for Professionals

TASP offers a number of trainings for professionals working with parents with IDD. The trainings are developed by experts in the field of supported parenting, along with parents with IDD, and are designed to inform your work and enhance your skills to ensure all individuals have a chance to parent.

We offer training to suit your time and budget: from live, virtual full and half-day trainings via Zoom, with Social Work CEUs, to on-demand pre-recorded trainings to view at a time that works for you.

See our list of trainings below.

All trainings, including past webinar topics, can be scheduled for a group of interested individuals at your agency.

Email us at info@achancetoparent.net to get more information or to schedule.

Live Training (offered virtually):

 

• Working Successfully with Parents with IDD 

 

• Trauma, Parenting and Intellectual Developmental Disability: An Intra and Interagency Puzzle 

Pre-Recorded Training:

Can be found HERE and can also be scheduled to be done live for staff at your agency/organization.

• Effective Support Strategies for Parents with Cognitive Difficulties

• Peer Navigation Support for Parents with I/DD

• Competence-Based Parenting Assessments

• Building Support Networks To Reduce the Risk of Isolation For Parents with IDD 

• History of Disabled Parenting and How it Informed my Journey from Adoption to Advocate and Parent 

• Increasing Comprehension when People Have Cognitive Difficulties: A Pre-Recorded Training 

• Building Formal and Informal Support Teams to Assist Parents with IDD

• Intersectional Identities and Parents with IDD

• Bridging the Gap: Cultural Differences between Child Welfare Agencies and Disability Agencies and the Impact on Parents with IDD

Here’s what people are saying about our trainings:

“I learned how to accommodate more people on a deeper level”

“I loved the learning styles reminder and the safety checklists and materials!”

“I will use all the parts of this training and am excited for the toolkit!”

“The whole training was beneficial, breaking down steps for parents, being creative, etc.”

Is there a training topic you want or need but don’t see it listed here?  We can probably create it for you!

Email us at info@achancetoparent.net and let’s talk.

PARTNERS

We’ve partnered with federal, state, and local agencies to train professionals.  Take a look at some of our training partners: