Live Training:

Tuesday, August 4, 2026

What to Expect After Enrollment:

Once you enroll, you’ll receive a confirmation email with all the details you need to join the live training. On the day of the training, you’ll use that information to log in at your chosen time:
🕐 1:00 PM, 8:30 PM, or 10:30 PM Eastern Time.

Attend the session that works best for your schedule—each one uses the same Zoom link provided in your email.

 

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Course Description

Understanding FASD: Practical Hope and Brain-Based Parenting for Foster and Adoptive Families

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is one of the most misunderstood challenges affecting children in foster care, kinship care, and adoption. Many children with FASD struggle with attention, memory, impulsivity, emotional regulation, sensory sensitivities, social understanding, and daily living skills—yet these difficulties are often mistaken for defiance, laziness, or poor parenting. This training helps foster and adoptive families understand FASD as a brain-based disability, not simply a behavior problem.

In this course, families will learn what FASD is, how prenatal alcohol exposure can affect development, and why traditional discipline strategies often fail. We will explore common signs of FASD, the overlap with trauma and other diagnoses, and practical ways to create structure, safety, and success at home. Caregivers will also gain tools for communication, school advocacy, emotional regulation, and long-term planning so they can parent with greater confidence, compassion, and hope.

CEU Certificate: 1 Hour

Course Instructors

Ted Stackpole Facilitator

Chaplain Ted Stackpole serves the foster and adoption community with deep compassion and commitment, drawing from years of experience as a spiritual leader and advocate for vulnerable children and families. He is an ordained minister and an endorsed chaplain with the Assemblies of God, offering guidance, hope, and pastoral care to those navigating the complexities of foster care and adoption. A devoted father of eleven, Ted enjoys spending time in the great outdoors and hopes to one day fulfill his dream of exploring the rugged beauty of Alaska.

Pamela Beaudry, LICSW, MSW Trainer

Pamela enjoys spending time with her family, whether it’s skating and playing hockey, hiking, or camping. Over the past year, she has taken up quilting—still deciding whether it is an exercise in relaxation or futility. She and her husband have been married for 14 years and are raising four children. Together, they also fostered seven children and continue to maintain close relationships with many of them. Having lived overseas, Pamela retains a love for travel and languages, with the goal of becoming conversational in at least four. Her primary area of scholarship is trauma-informed care, and she hopes to begin and complete a PhD program within the next decade.

 

Live Training

FREE

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