Date/Time
Date(s) - 08/11/2025
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Location
Orchard Hill Church, ENTRANCE F, Room 141
Categories
Cedar Falls: Creating a Family: Coping With Challenging Food Issues 1. 5 hours
Date & Time: Monday, August 11, 2025; 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Potluck at 5:30 pm. Training 6:00 pm -7:30 pm Childcare is available by sending an email to Juanita Eiklenborg ikejuan2000@yahoo.com
Location: Orchard Hill Church, 3900 Orchard Hill Drive, Cedar Falls, Room 141
Facilitator: Pam Jones
Registration URL: https://attendee.gototraining.com/r/5500947280798356737
Description: In this curriculum, parents will learn crucial information about the common causes for feeding issues and food challenges in foster, kinship and adopted kids. Parents and caregivers will learn about the impacts that food insecurity and other food-related trauma can create in children of all ages. Parents and caregivers will also learn specific information about the most common food issues and how to address them at home. Finally, parents and caregivers will gain understanding of the practical supports children who face feeding issues need to heal.
Parents will leave the interactive training and support meeting with a better understanding of the following topics:
• Causes of feeding issues and food challenges
• Impacts of food insecurity and other food-related trauma on a child’s relationship with food
• Three most common concerns foster, kinship, and adoptive parents have about feeding issues
• Practical tips for supporting a child to heal from these common food challenges