Training & Workshops

Our Training & Workshops help individuals, youth, families, advocates, professionals and organizations reach their potential and understand the "why" behind behavior and decision-making.

Thomas C. Rector, founder of Accrescent Institute, leading the workshop "Raising a Foster Child to Thrive" at the 2018 National Foster Parent Association Conference. Rector is standing in front of a large hotel meeting space pointing toward a slide presentation projected on a screen. Attendees are foster, adoptive, and kinship parents as well as advocates, social workers, and other foster care professionals, seated in rows, attentively listening and taking notes.

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Thomas C. Rector, founder of Accrescent Institute, leading a custom training session for an organization. He is presenting on topics related to memory formation and cognition, with visual aids displayed behind him. Attendees are seated at tables, engaging with the material. Accrescent Institute, a nonprofit, provides training and workshops for individuals, youth, families, advocates, professionals, and organizations, focusing on how memories are formed and why they matter.

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Thomas C. Rector, founder of Accrescent Institute, leading a small group training session. He gestures while explaining the DMPS model, which illustrates how development, memories, potential, and survival impact the brain’s response to a person’s environment. The training focuses on understanding how memories are formed and why they matter.

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Hands typing on a laptop laying on a grey couch. The image on the screen is the title slide to an Accrescent Institute workshop. There is green shading across the bottom of the image with the words, “On-Demand Learning” in white letters.

Training and workshops are available in a variety of formats. All sessions are engaging, interactive, and customized specifically to the audience.

Durations range from 90 min to half and full day training.

For in-depth training, organizations and individuals may choose multiple sessions delivered over a number of weeks.

Event attendees seated in chairs with notebooks and iPads actively listening to a training or workshop.

What to Expect

Using audience input and participation, stories, and real-world examples, Thomas C. Rector, connects the content with situations you encounter in your daily life.

Interactive activities, animation, and visuals are used to help you relate, absorb, and process the information, so you can walk away with practical information you can begin to use right away.

Questions are encouraged throughout each session!

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Partnering with Accrescent Institute

"It was great to have social workers, foster parents, and CASA attending.

Loved it!"

- Karen H.

Private Group Training

Resilient Del Norte and Tribal Lands, CASA of Del Norte, Del Norte Child Abuse Prevention Council

Other Organizations and Conferences We've Worked With Include:

Collage of 4 logos. 1. A bright orange and purple circle surrounded by stars in gradient shades of blue, purple, pink, orange, & yellow. Following the curve of the circle is: 2025 California Foster Youth Education Summit. Across the center is: Imagine, Inspire, Innovate with Make Every Connection Matter below. 2. A blue vertical rectangle with FFTA and 4 house icons in a quadrant. On the right it says Family Focused Treatment Association. 3. Blue and Green coloring throughout. St. Joseph Heath with a Greek Cross to the right. Below it says Redwood Memorial and St. Joseph. 4. Black Lettering that says Resilient DNATL. Below is a circle with a blue pentagon that says Resilience. Coming off the center are bands of various colors with phrases. Green (top): Take Care of Yourself. Teal (top left): Maintain a Positive Outlook. Purple (bottom left): Social Support. Red (bottom right): Meaning and Purpose. Orange (top right): Active Problem Solving.

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Collage of 3 logos. 1. A blue rectangle containing a white & orange box on the left with the letters JBAY in blue. On the right are the words John Burton Advocates for Youth in orange and white. 2. Logo for Foster Parent Association of Washington State is a solid blue shape of the state of Washington. Inside are the letters FPAWS in orange, green, red, yellow, and purple. The right side of the A is extended and ending in a heart. 3. Large rectangle in shades of blue. On the left is a solid shape of the state of California with the words Pre K-12 and Beyond. On the right is California Foster Youth Education Task Force.

Collage of four logos. 1. A stylized roof/house made of pink, blue, orange, yellow, and green geometrical shapes. To the right are the letters NAFCC with National Association of Family Child Care below. 2. A bright teal circle surrounded by stars in gradient shades of blue, purple, pink, orange, & yellow. Following the curve of the circle is: 2024 California Foster Youth Education Summit. Across the center is: Imagine, Inspire, Innovate with Celebrating 20 years of Supporting Our Students: Empowered by Policy below. 3. Black icon of a person with their arms outstretched creating the bottom part of a heart and below is CASA, Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children, Del Norte County. 4. Grey rectangle with rounded corners. Inside to the left is the solid shape of the state of Oregon with two overlapping hands cut out. To the right is Oregon Parenting Education Collaborative (also known as OPEC)

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