Partners in Parenting: Thriving Beyond Separation
A practical workshop to help co-parents communicate better, reduce conflict, and create consistency across households. Participants learn strategies to support their child’s emotional well-being while building a more cooperative, child-centered co-parenting partnership.
Parent Group - Breaking the Cycle
Breaking the Cycle is a supportive parenting therapy group designed to help you build stronger, healthier relationships with your children. It combines practical education with group discussions, offering a space for parents to learn and grow together.
Every Adult a Protector: Safety and Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse
A focused training that teaches adults how to recognize warning signs, respond to concerns, and create safer environments for children. Participants gain practical tools to reduce risk and confidently support child safety and abuse prevention.
Parenting Through a Trauma Lens
This trauma-informed training helps caregivers understand how trauma impacts a child's brain, behavior, and emotional development. Participants will learn practical strategies to foster safety, connection, and regulation while building trust and resilience through compassionate, informed responses.
Becoming Me
Becoming Me is designed to help teens build and exercise healthy coping skills in a safe, supportive environment. Teens can express their thoughts and feelings, learning valuable tools to cope, decrease social anxiety, increase confidence, and know they are not alone.
Behind the Behavior: Understanding Attachment Needs in Foster and Adopted Children
This training helps foster parents understand how attachment and trauma influence children’s behavior. Participants will learn to see behavior as communication, gain insight into underlying needs, and build practical strategies to strengthen connection and promote healing.
Teen Expressive Art Therapy Group
Art allows us to express our inner world in outer forms and symbols. By expressing ourselves in a group, we allow our inner worlds to connect to others in new and empowering ways.
In the expressive art therapy group, teens will use art to become more aware of themselves and their connection to the world and others. Teens will have a new medium to seek out new meaning and purpose for their own lives.
Defiance or Distress? Understanding What Your Child Is Really Saying
This training helps caregivers see defiance as communication, not just bad behavior. We’ll talk about how stress, emotions, development, and unmet needs can show up as pushback or resistance. You’ll learn simple, practical ways to respond that support connection and regulation.
The Handbook You Wish Your Child Came With
Many parents have wished their child came with a handbook. This training helps parents better understand their elementary-age child’s needs and learn practical ways to build connection and strengthen their relationship.
AAAAHHH! I Have a Teenager
Raising teenager can be hard and confusing and unfortunately they do not come with a handbook. This training will help you understand why these years are so important and how you can stay connected to your teen.
The In Between years: Parent Skills for Tweens
Not a little kid and not yet a teen! We'll dive into your tweens (10-12) needs and ways to support healthy independence so you can stay in the know and connected.
Parenting Through a Trauma Lens
This trauma-informed training helps caregivers understand how trauma impacts a child's brain, behavior, and emotional development. Participants will learn practical strategies to foster safety, connection, and regulation while building trust and resilience through compassionate, informed responses.
Stronger Together: Effective Co-Parenting
Divorce is hard by itself. When you throw parenting with your ex into the mix it becomes more complicated. Learn ways to effectively co-parent with your ex in order to prevent negative effects of divorce in your children and improve better connection with your children.
Parenting with Firmness and Warmth
This training helps parents understand the importance of balancing structure and nurture to support their child’s emotional and behavioral development. Participants will learn practical strategies to set consistent boundaries while fostering warmth, connection, and trust.
Raising Connected Kids: Parenting in the Tech-Age
We will learn about current research into the effects of screen time on kids and teens. We will also go over strategies to keep our kids safe online, and to foster relational connection around technology use.
Adult Group - Healing Trauma. Healing Me.
This adult group is a safe and supportive space to heal alongside others who understand. Together, we’ll share experiences, learn practical tools for coping, and encourage one another in the journey forward. This group is about finding strength, hope, and connection after hardship.
Parent Group - Breaking the Cycle
Breaking the Cycle is a supportive parenting therapy group designed to help you build stronger, healthier relationships with your children. It combines practical education with group discussions, offering a space for parents to learn and grow together.
Teen Group - Expressive Art Therapy
Expressive art therapy offers a creative and supportive space for teens to explore their thoughts and emotions through art. This group helps teens express their inner world in a way that words sometimes can’t capture, fostering self-awareness and deeper connections with others.
Adult Group - Healing Trauma Healing Me
“Healing Trauma, Healing Me”
Trauma can leave lasting effects, often shaping how we feel, think, and relate to others long after the experience is over. This group is designed for adults ready to take steps toward healing and reclaiming their well-being.
Adult Group - Expressive Art Therapy
Expressive art therapy offers adults a creative and supportive space to explore emotions, gain insight, and connect with others. By using art as a form of self-expression, participants can access deeper self-awareness and foster meaningful connections in new and empowering ways.
Teen Group - Becoming Me
“Becoming Me” is a six-week group therapy program designed to support teens in navigating the challenges of adolescence. It provides a safe and welcoming space where your teen can connect with others, express themselves freely, and develop skills to handle life’s ups and downs.
Group Home Training Series 2025
This series of training is intended for group home managers and staff to better understand the needs of children and teens in foster care from a trauma-informed lens.
In addition, several of the trainings are created to help the caregivers of these children understand themselves and their role as a parental figure.
Group Home Training Series 2025
This series of training is intended for group home managers and staff to better understand the needs of children and teens in foster care from a trauma-informed lens.
In addition, several of the trainings are created to help the caregivers of these children understand themselves and their role as a parental figure.
Teen Group - Expressive Art Therapy for Teens
Through expressive art therapy, teens will explore their concept of self.
This teen group will meet for 6 weeks starting on Monday Sept 9th at 6PM.
Parent Training - Understanding Your Child
The Handbook You Wish Your Kids Came With
Understanding and managing negative behaviors
Parent Training - Understanding Teens
AHHH!!! I HAVE A TEENAGER
While every stage of parenting has its trials, there is something uniquely challenging about adolescence. Many parents remember their own turbulent teen years. They wonder if they’re truly ready to walk with their kids through these developmental years. At Dawn, we understand and are here to help. Join us as we walk through ways to support your journey together.