Led by a mental health professional and educator, this webinar will cover key facts about children's mental health, early warning signs of mental health disorders, and signs and symptoms of childhood suicide. Discussion will include strategies for how to respond and how to access help for students.

This training focuses on why and how our body and brain respond to stress/crisis and how that affects our work, wellness, and interactions. Explore Social-Emotional Learning strategies to recognize dysregulation in yourself and others, as well as strategies to regain and retain regulation. These strategies apply to interactions with students, colleagues, and caregivers.

This webinar provides participants an opportunity to explore components of effective reading instruction including phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and motivation and engagement. Within each component, participants will learn what it is, why we teach it, and how we teach it.

Multilingual learners in our classrooms are a huge asset. Not every educator may feel confident in how to best support and include these students. This webinar offers insights to support educators in creating optimal learning environments and instructional strategies for each learner.

Explore components of effective reading instruction, including phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and motivation and engagement. Within each component, participants will learn what it is, why we teach it, and how we teach it.

Turning strategy into real conversations and real results

Even with strong systems in place, many nonprofit professionals still hesitate at the most critical moment: the ask. This training is hands-on, practical, and confidence-building. This session creates space to practice, refine, and build comfort with real-world fundraising conversations. We move beyond theory into lived experience to help participants find language that feels natural, grounded, and aligned with their mission.

This training is provided in partnership with the Initiative Foundation.

Make a Difference at Review Day! Join us in supporting local 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations as they receive transformative investments through the Impact Funding Program—empowering them to create lasting change in our communities. On review day, applicants will present their project ideas to local nonprofit representatives, who will have the opportunity to ask questions and vote on the recipients. Sourcewell’s Nonprofit Advisory Council will review and ratify these votes to confirm funding and bring these community visions to reality. Awarded projects will be notified of their status by the end of November. Voting is open to any charitable 501(c)(3) nonprofit in Cass, Crow Wing, Morrison, Todd, and Wadena counties and the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, not just those applying for funding. All nonprofit staff, volunteers, and board members are eligible to attend (a total of four per nonprofit).

This is a specialized training on both practical and legal considerations of Minnesota’s Open Meeting Law and Data Practices requirements. Participants will gain an understanding of these complicated laws, gain an understanding of updated regulations, learn how to access appropriate resources, and leave with practical knowledge for working within the laws’ parameters.

This is a specialized training on both practical and legal considerations of Minnesota’s Open Meeting Law and Data Practices requirements. Participants will gain an understanding of these complicated laws, gain an understanding of updated regulations, learn how to access appropriate resources, and leave with practical knowledge for working within the laws’ parameters.

Crosslake Fire Hall Address:
37028 County Road 66
Crosslake, MN 56442

How strong organizations create strong fundraising. Fundraising doesn’t begin with an ask, it begins with alignment. Participants explore how leadership, governance, and strategic clarity directly shape donor trust and long-term stewardship. This session focuses on strengthening the internal foundation that makes fundraising more natural, more effective, and more sustainable.

This training is provided in partnership with the Initiative Foundation.

Paraeducator Online Training provides a wide variety of online courses that give paraprofessionals the specific training they need—with strategies they can apply immediately.

In this one-day workshop participants will learn how to establish and sustain comprehensive school safety efforts that attend to both physical and psychological safety. The workshop addresses critical components needed to develop, exercise, and evaluate safety and crisis teams and plans and conduct building vulnerability assessments. The model also integrates school personnel and comunity provider roles in providing school-based crisis preparedness and response activities. Additional topics addressed also include media/social media, communication, reunification, students with special needs, culture, and memorials. After this workshop, participants will be better prepared to improve their school’s climate, student resilience, and crisis response capabilities of school personnel. With updated research and strategies, this workshop makes a clear connection between ongoing crisis prevention, mitigation, protection, response, and recovery. 

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Putting teachers and nurses together cultivating compassion. Let's make people feel safe, heard and valued.  A team approach to support your unique journey toward impactful change, nurturing compassion, forging connections, and driving positive, progressive transformations in both professional and personal lives.

Language is ever evolving and changing. Sometimes knowing which terms or descriptions to use can be difficult and sometimes we don’t even know we are using outdated or harmful language. This webinar is focused on promoting positive language around topics such as race, gender, and common school-based labels and language.

This course provides a comprehensive, operations-focused approach to Active Human Shooter/Hostile Event Response (AHSER) aligned with NFPA 3000 standards. Participants will examine the critical components of an integrated response, including Unified Command, Rescue Task Force (RTF) deployment, and the application of basic trauma care in high-threat environments.

Through the lens of real-world incident after-action reports, this course bridges policy and practice—highlighting what worked, what failed, and how coordinated response efforts can be improved. Emphasis is placed on interagency collaboration between fire, EMS, and law enforcement, ensuring a cohesive and effective operational framework during rapidly evolving incidents based on the priorities of life as defined in law enforcement as well as the fire EMS tactical priorities.

Key topics include:

• Establishing and managing Unified Command in dynamic, high-risk environments


• Formation, deployment, and operational considerations of Rescue Task Forces


• Warm zone operations and risk-based decision making


• Integration of fire/EMS into law enforcement-led incidents


• Application of basic trauma techniques, including hemorrhage control, airway management, and rapid patient extraction

Morning Session: Skills for Transforming Conflict 

Conflict is a constant in our world. It is a common and inevitable aspect of work inside our organizations and with the public. With intentionality, conflict can be a powerful opportunity for growth and change. Equip yourself with the mindsets, communications skills, and practices to manage conflict productively. In this session, you will experience plenty of peer-to-peer discussion and learn practical strategies you can use as soon as you leave the room.

Afternoon session: Designing collaborative processes for reaching agreement 

Collaborative problem-solving is a systematic approach for finding workable shared solutions to complex challenges for parties with different views and interests. In this session, you will use the Office of Collaboration and Dispute Resolution’s five-step collaborative problem-solving model to design a conflict resolution process that meets the unique needs of a challenge you are facing and get helpful feedback from OCDR trainers and other participants in the room.

This training was developed exclusively for Sourcewell’s Minnesota Region 5 partners as professional development for those serving students in transportation roles. Created in response to Transportation Directors’ requests, the course provides practical strategies for addressing student conduct concerns on school buses through the lens of Social Emotional Learning. Participants will explore ways to increase self-awareness, avoid deficit thinking, and honor the experiences of everyone involved. Each unit includes flexible learning options for either facilitated group training or self-paced individual learning.