Missouri Heart Gallery

RED: Review of Existing Data
2025-10-03 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Chicago) | Virtual
This is an online training offered through the FCARSTC contract for families licensed through Children’s Division and KVC. A quick overview about what to expect and how to prepare for a RED meeting with a child’s special education team. This Review of Existing Data can help determine what additional testing needs to occur and what accommodations might be most helpful.

https://form.jotform.com/KVCMOCPA/red-review-of-existing–october-3

Play October 6, 2025; 5:30-6:30 pm
2025-10-06 17:30 - 18:30
This is an online training offered through the FCARSTC contract for families licensed through Children’s Division and KVC. Based on the book by Stuart Brown (Play how it shapes the brain opens the imagination and invigorates the soul.) Playful engagement is the quickest way to help a child feel safe enough to learn appropriate behavior. In this training we learn how to tap into your play personality to connect with the children in your home.

https://form.jotform.com/KVCMOCPA/play-monday-october-6-2025-530-630-

Spaulding Adoption Training, Mondays, Oct. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2025
2025-10-06 18:00 - 21:00
This is an online training offered through the FCARSTC contract for families licensed through Children’s Division and KVC. This is the required training for families planning to adopt from foster care. It must be completed prior to your adoption addendum to your foster care home study. This 12 hour training meets four consecutive Mondays: October 6, 13, 20, 27, 2025

Overcoming and Preventing Blocked Care, October 17-18, 2025
2025-10-17 18:00 - 21:00
Overcoming and Preventing Blocked Care, October 17-18, 2025; 6:00-9:00pm Friday and noon -6:00 pm Saturday

This is an online training offered through the FCARSTC contract for families licensed through Children’s Division and KVC. Overcoming and Preventing Blocked Care—a must for kinship, foster, and adoptive parents who want to reconnect with their children and themselves.
Blocked care happens when the stress of parenting a child with a history of trauma causes a parent’s natural caregiving instincts to shut down. This class gives you tools to recognize it, reverse it, and build secure attachment—even in the hardest moments.

“I thought I was just burned out… I didn’t know it had a name. This class changed everything.” – Previous Participant

Based on the latest brain science and attachment research
8 powerful hour-long
Virtual. Supportive. Transformational.
Reconnect. Rebuild. Restore.
Register now and take the first step toward healing—for your family and yourself.

https://form.jotform.com/KVCMOCPA/Blocked-Care-Saturday-October25

Cultivate Connections - October 24-25, and November 7-8, 2025
2025-10-24 18:00 - 21:00
Cultivate Connections October 24-25, and November 7-8, 2025; 6:00-9:00 pm Friday and 9:00-5:00 pm Saturday

This is an online training offered through the FCARSTC contract for families licensed through Children’s Division and KVC.
Parenting feels heavy sometimes. You don’t have to carry it alone. Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed, burned out, or just craving a deeper connection with your child—Cultivate Connection is for you. This 18-hour course is BY parents, FOR parents—designed specifically for foster, adoptive, and kinship caregivers navigating the complexities of trauma, attachment, and neurodiversity.

Grounded in brain-based parenting, attachment science, and practical strategies, this course will empower you to:
Parent with confidence
Co-regulate instead of react
Understand what behavior is really communicating
Build strong, healing relationships
Space is limited—don’t miss this opportunity to breathe, grow, and connect alongside like-minded parents.
You’ll walk away more confident, calm, curious, compassionate, and connected.

Created by the staff at Empowered to Connect

https://form.jotform.com/KVCMOCPA/cultivate-connection-october-24-25-
