• The Parent Influence: Why We Become Parent Leaders

    Everything is better when Parent Leaders step into the room. Their knowledge of their families, their wisdom, skill sets, and resourcefulness are the things that make our organizations absolutely come alive! Join members of the Be Strong Families National Parent Café Leadership team as they share what motivates them to connect with an agency/organization or school and why they keep coming back!

  • Mapping Dreams: Transition to Adulthood

    This training provides strategies for what parents and youth can do to help plan for the student’s transition from high school to adult employment, postsecondary education or training, and independent living.

  • A Taste of Cafés: Dancing in the Rain (Strength in the Rain)

    As the parent of a child with a disability, you are thrust into the role of a caregiver for a lifetime. While it can be overwhelming, it can also be an unbelievable venture into learning about the limitless human spirit and indescribable love. As the saying goes: It isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass; it’s about learning to dance in the rain.  

  • Living The Protective Factors

    This two-day workshop gives participants the opportunity to “test-drive” the five research-based Strengthening Families™ Protective Factors that are proven to keep children safe and families strong.