The Human Services Workshops: Since 1976, Good Shepherd has been strongly committed to providing ongoing professional development and training to both our own staff and social service providers throughout the City.  These workshops both ensure best practices and high quality programs for those with whom we work. Click HERE to learn more about their trainings and to register.

Planned Parenthood: Teaching about sex and sexuality can be challenging, but the benefits for your youth make the challenge worth the effort. Click HERE to learn more

Governors Prevention Partnership: The Governor's Prevention Partnership is pleased to provide you with new offerings intended to meet emerging needs identified by your responses to our annual needs assessment and satisfaction surveys.  All of our trainings provide information and skills for keeping Connecticut's youth safe, successful and drug-free. Click HERE to learn more.

CAFAP: The Association runs various trainings to assist parents in meeting the specific challenges associated with foster, adoptive and relative caregiving. Click HERE for more information

NAMI is the largest education, support and advocacy organization that serves the needs of all those whose lives are touched by mental illnesses.  This includes persons with mental illness, their families, friends, employers, the law enforcement community and policy makers. NAMI has been such a tremendous educational resource for our family.  NAMI offers a 12 week, FREE Family-to-Family course and a NAMI Basics course--a 6 week FREE class for parents and primary caregivers of children with serious mental illness.  Our Stamford-Greenwich affiliate, one of the 1100 local affiliates nationwide, is a FANTASTIC group of dedicated people.
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Center for Professional Development: CT Nonprofits’ spring workshops are available for registration! Below are a few of their upcoming trainings. You can also find a full listing of their spring workshops by clicking HERE

True Colors: Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender adolescents (LGBT) are the only sub-set of the adolescent population which is routinely stigmatized and deprived of support in every major area of life. That these young people suffer the ill effects of societal stigma, isolation, and bias is evidenced by their substantially higher rates of substance abuse, depression and other mental health disorders; suicidality; homelessness; family violence; truancy; sexual acting out and other at-risk behaviors. Click HERE to learn more about trainings.

Hartford Training Academy: A major emphasis of the Workforce Development Division has been the provision of in-service and pre-service training.  Currently, attention is being paid to ways in which the workforce can be better recruited, trained and retained through partnerships with nearby institutions of higher education. Click HERE for more information.

SERC is a nonprofit agency primarily funded by the Connecticut State Department of Education. SERC provides professional development and information dissemination in the latest research and best practices to educators, service providers, and families throughout the state, as well as job-embedded technical assistance and training within schools, programs, and districts. Click HERE for more information, and to register
 
New England Network for Child, Youth & Family Services is a private, not-for-profit organization that works to support and advance child and youth services throughout New England. Through our linked professional development and practical research divisions, NEN works collaboratively to strengthen social services, promote best practices and respond to emerging policy and practice issues. NEN acts quickly and leverages its relationships with peer organizations throughout the country to press key initiatives and translate new thinking into effective programming. We respond rapidly to emerging policy issues, stay with initiatives long enough to make a difference, and possess the expertise to craft models for change that can be replicated elsewhere.  Click HERE for trainings and more.