Stop, Drop, and Connect: A New Way to Handle Big Behaviors

A training for Birmingham-area foster, adoptive, and kinship families led by Barb Clark, hosted by Children’s Aid Society of Alabama’s, Alabama Pre/Post Adoption Connections (APAC) program. Learn practical, connection-based strategies for handling big behaviors.

If you’ve ever felt stuck navigating behaviors like raging, lying, or stealing, this training may change how you respond to those moments forever. Once you realize those behaviors aren’t simply defiance…but signals of trauma, loss, fear, or unmet needs, you can begin to change those behaviors.
On July 23rd, Barb Clark leads a powerful full-day APAC training, designed to help you move beyond power struggles and toward connection, safety, and healing.

You’ll walk away with practical tools to:
✅ Better understand trauma-driven behaviors
✅ Reduce conflict and escalation
✅ Respond with strategies that build trust
✅ Support lasting emotional regulation and healing
📍 Attend in Birmingham or virtually by livestream
🎟️ FREE for foster/adoptive parents & Alabama DHR staff
🎓 $55 for other professionals seeking 5.5 NBCC-approved CEUs