Online Courses

Deepen your understanding of your children’s complex needs and gain practical, effective strategies to reduce emotional and behavioral challenges in your home.

Connected Family Series

  • This 4-part series includes webinar-style videos for caregivers and children to increase knowledge, reflective questions to deepen understanding, and family activities to improve relationships and honesty.

  • If your family feels fractured or disconnected, if you feel like you don’t quite know how to help your biological children, if you feel like some of your children are feeling ignored, or if you desire more openness and understanding in your family, this series is for you.

  • This series is designed for you to better understand the struggles each family member might face and the reasons why they can face them.

  • In this series, you will learn research-based, proven strategies that help each family member improve their well-being and improve the relationships with the whole family.

equip Series

  • This 6-part series includes six 1-hour webinar-style videos for caregivers to gain the foundational skills for effectively caring for a child who experienced early-stressful environments.

  • If you’re feeling incompetent as a caregiver, if you’re at a loss for how to respond to behaviors, if you just keep trying harder and the behaviors keep happening, this series is for you.

    Or…

    If you are beginning your journey in foster care or adoption, this series will give you the understanding and strategies to meet your children’s stress-related, complex needs.

  • This series is designed for you to learn how to see the need behind the behavior so that you can effectively respond and care for your child’s real need in the moment.

  • In this series, you will learn practical strategies to effectively respond to your children’s emotions and behaviors so that the complex needs are actually addressed and the challenges in your home decrease.

Free online video

Unsure of whether Dr. Jana’s content is different than any other professional who says they understand adoption and trauma? Watch this free one-hour video to learn the basics of understanding the complex needs of children who have experienced prenatal and early-life stress and adversity.

photo of laptop, coffee, and journal with the words written over it: how early stress wires the brain: understanding the hidden cost

Note: This video is the first of six videos included in Dr. Jana’s Equip Series.

How early stress wires the brain: understanding the hidden cost

  • This free one-hour video is an overview of the impact of early stress on brain development.

  • Explore the unique aspects of brain development in children who are in foster care, kinship care, or adopted. Gain insights into how their experiences shape learning, behavior, and emotional health in this one-hour video.

  • This video is the first of six videos in Dr. Jana’s Equip Series. After watching this video, if you find yourself wanting a deeper understanding and more tools in your tool belt, enroll in the Equip Series.

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