Master Classes for Professionals | The Caregiving Years Training Academy

Master Classes for Professionals Serving Family Caregivers

Gain deep insights into the personal caregiving experience and discover proven strategies to help family caregivers cope with worries and stress during uncertain times.

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New to caregiving support? These Master Classes offer a perfect introduction to understanding family caregiver experiences.

Family caregivers looking for support? Explore our Master Classes for Family Caregivers

Core Master Classes

Foundational courses designed for professionals serving family caregivers. Each one-hour interactive class provides actionable insights grounded in 30+ years of caregiving expertise.

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1 Hour On-Demand

The Caregiving Fatigues

Caring for a family member is exhausting and overwhelming. Family caregivers experience more than compassion fatigue. Identify which fatigues your clients experience and discover strategies to help them feel better.

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1 Hour On-Demand

The Six Caregiving Stages

Your clients, customers, employees and community members care for loved ones. Understand the unique challenges, difficult emotions, and heartbreaking impact of caregiving with greater insights that improve your interactions.

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1 Hour On-Demand

Resilience During Caregiving

Resilience is energy that must be cultivated to bounce back from challenging circumstances. Explore what drains energy during caregiving and discover practical ways to find and maintain resilience.

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1 Hour On-Demand

The Family Caregiver's House of Cards

Family caregivers build a fragile house of cards that gives them stability and routine. Changesโ€”even good onesโ€”threaten that delicate structure. Learn how to support caregivers as they receive help without jeopardizing their foundation.

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1 Hour On-Demand

Grieving After Caregiving

When caregiving ends, former caregivers must close out an experience while rebuilding their lives and grieving simultaneously. Their grief can include missing their caree and mourning the loss of their role.

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1 Hour On-Demand

Create Your Daily Healing Plan

Learn a proven process that promotes healing through loss and secondary losses. The daily healing plan helps name the loss, connect to soothing strategies, and move into feeling better.

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Advanced Certification

Build your expertise with our comprehensive facilitator training that combines multiple master classes with professional skills development.

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20-Hour Training

Master Caregiving Facilitatorโ„ข

The Master Caregiving Facilitator training combines our Caregiving and Grief Facilitator programs with two core Master Classes (The Six Caregiving Stages and The Caregiving Fatigues). After this comprehensive training, you'll have the knowledge, skills and tools to confidently lead caregiving and grief support groups and meet your members where they are. Includes CEU options.

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Annual Membership

Caregiving Support CEU Training Center

Access all Master Classes plus 20+ additional specialized courses about the personal caregiving experience โ€” more than 25 hours of on-demand content. Earn CEUs or a Certificate of Completion. Annual membership at just $97 keeps you current with professional development requirements.

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Why Professionals Choose Our Master Classes

Our Master Classes are ideal for financial planners, elderlaw attorneys, trust officers, church staff, senior care providers, case managers, HR professionals, and anyone who serves or supports family caregivers.

  • Grounded in Expertise: 30+ years of direct caregiving experience and professional research
  • Immediately Applicable: Real-world insights you can use in your work today
  • Flexible Format: Self-paced, on-demand classes you can take anytime
  • Community Support: Join our network of professionals serving family caregivers
  • CEU Options Available: Many classes offer continuing education credits

Want More Depth?

Expand your knowledge with our comprehensive Caregiving Support Training Center.

Caregiving Support Training Center

Earn CEUs or a Certificate of Completion and enhance your professional knowledge about the caregiving experience with our expanded library.

Our Training Center includes all Master Classes plus 20+ additional specialized courses about the personal caregiving experience. Choose from more than 25 hours of on-demand modules.

  • Annual membership at just $97
  • Stay current with professional development requirements
  • Access expanding library of specialized modules
  • Earn CEUs or Certificates of Attendance

Meet Denise Brown

Denise M. Brown

Founder & Master Class Instructor

Denise M. Brown develops these Master Classes based on her 30+ years of professional caregiving expertise and 35 years of personal caregiving experience. In 1990, she began engaging family caregivers and former family caregivers in meaningful conversations through one-on-one coaching, support groups, online communities, conferences, and virtual meetings.

Named a 2017 Next Avenue Influencer in Aging and featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, and Time magazine, Denise brings authentic, lived expertise to every class she teaches.

That deep commitment to listening and understanding the caregiving experience informs every training program and Master Class she creates.

Ready to Deepen Your Understanding?

Choose the Master Classes that fit your professional needs and schedule.

Have Questions?

Contact Denise directly to discuss which Master Classes best serve your professional goals.