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EDUCATION

Adoptive Parent Foster Care Parent Kinship Caregiver

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Selected courses are listed below. For any questions or more information, please email [email protected].


Find Free Training on Prenatal Substance Exposure for Child Welfare Professionals and Resource Parents.

Adoptive Parent Education

  1. 7 Core Issues in Adoption & Foster Care
  2. Adopting/Fostering a Child Who Identifies as LGBTQ+
  3. Adopting as a Single Parent 
  4. Adopting Older Kids: Things to Consider 
  5. Adopting Siblings: Issue to Consider
  6. Combining Kids by Birth & Adoption
  7. Connected Parenting: Understanding TBRI®
  8. Disrupting Birth Order in Adoption and Foster Care
  9. Finding an Adoption Competent Therapist 
  10. Healing after Abuse and Neglect 
  11. Helping Adopted Children Heal from Past Trauma and Loss 
  12. Helping Children Heal from Sexual Abuse 
  13. How a Parent's History with Attachment and Trauma Impacts Adoption and Fostering 
  14. How Do Transracial Adoptees Develop a Racial Identity
  15. Impact of Prenatal Exposure to Opioids & Opioid-Use Treatment Medications
  16. Introduction to Attachment 
  17. Introduction to Foster Care Adoption 
  18. Introduction to Prenatal Substance Exposure 
  19. Parenting Children Who Have Experienced Trauma 
  20. Parenting Toolkit for Harder to Parent Kids 
  21. Physical and Emotional Health Issues Common with Foster Kids 
  22. Practical Solutions to Typical Food Issues
  23. Practical Tips for Disciplining Children Who Have Experienced Trauma 
  24. Practical Tips for Disciplining While Maintaining Attachment 
  25. Preparing Children Already in the Home for Adoption
  26. Raising a Child with ADHD to a Successful & Healthy Adulthood
  27. Should You Consider Adopting a Child of a Different Race or Ethnicity? 
  28. Suicide Awareness and Prevention 
  29. Talking About the Difficult Parts of Your Adopted Child's History 
  30. Talking with Kids About Adoption at Different Ages
  31. Talking with Young Children About Adoption and Birth Parents Transitioning from Foster Care to Adoption 
  32. Trauma-Informed Parenting: Practical Applications of TBRI® 
  33. Understanding Psychotropic Medication

Foster Parent Education

  1. 7 Core Issues in Adoption & Foster Care
  2. Adopting/Fostering a Child Who Identifes as LGBTQ+
  3. Combining Kids by Birth & Adoption
  4. Connected Parenting: Understanding TBRI®
  5. Disrupting Birth Order in Adoption and Foster Care 
  6. Healing after Abuse and Neglect 
  7. Helping Children Heal from Sexual Abuse 
  8. How a Parent's History with Attachment and Trauma Impacts Adoption and Fostering 
  9. How Do Transracial Adoptees Develop a Racial Identity
  10. Impact of Prenatal Exposure to Opioids & Opioid-Use Treatment Medications
  11. Introduction to Attachment 
  12. Introduction to Foster Parenting 
  13. Introduction to Prenatal Substance Exposure 
  14. Parenting Children Who Have Experienced Trauma 
  15. Parenting Toolkit for Harder to Parent Kids 
  16. Partnering with Birth Parents in Foster Care 
  17. Physical and Emotional Health Issues Common with Foster Kids 
  18. Practical Solutions to Typical Food Issues
  19. Practical Tips for Disciplining Children Who Have Experienced Trauma 
  20. Preventing Sexual Abuse (available in Spanish)
  21. Raising a Child with ADHD to a Successful & Healthy Adulthood
  22. Reasonable and Prudent Parent Standard (available in Spanish)
  23. Suicide Awareness and Prevention (available in Spanish)
  24. The Impact of Fostering on Kids Already in the Family 
  25. Trauma-Informed Parenting: Practical Applications of TBRI®
  26. Understanding the Scope of Human Trafficking and How to Protect our Kids (available in Spanish)
  27. Understanding Psychotropic Medication


*Spanish-language courses:

  1. Cómo Prevenir el Abuso Sexual
  2. Comprender El Alcance De La Trata De Personas Y Cómo Proteger A Nuestros Hijos
  3. Concientización y Prevención del Suicidio
  4. La Norma de Crianza Razonable y Prudente

Kinship Caregiver Education

  1. 7 Core Issues in Adoption & Foster Care
  2. Combining Kids by Birth & Adoption
  3. Connected Parenting: Understanding TBRI®
  4. First Six Months with an Opiate Exposed Baby 
  5. Healing after Abuse and Neglect 
  6. Helping Children Heal from Sexual Abuse 
  7. How a Parent's History with Attachment and Trauma Impacts Adoption and Fostering
  8. Impact of Prenatal Exposure to Opioids & Opioid-Use Treatment Medications
  9. Introduction to Attachment 
  10. Introduction to Prenatal Substance Exposure 
  11. Kinship Adoption 
  12. Open Adoption: Handling Difficult Birth Parent Situations 
  13. Parenting Children Who Have Experienced Trauma 
  14. Parenting Toolkit for Harder to Parent Kids 
  15. Partnering with Birth Parents in Foster Care 
  16. Physical and Emotional Health Issues Common with Foster Kids 
  17. Practical Solutions to Typical Food Issues
  18. Practical Tips for Disciplining Children Who Have Experienced Trauma 
  19. Practical Tips for Disciplining While Maintaining Attachment 
  20. Raising a Child with ADHD to a Successful & Healthy Adulthood
  21. Suicide Awareness and Prevention 
  22. Talking with Young Children About Adoption and Birth Parents 
  23. The Impact of Fostering on Kids Already in the Family 
  24. Trauma-Informed Parenting: Practical Applications of TBRI®
  25. Understanding Psychotropic Medication 
  26. What Do Kinship Caregivers Need to Succeed?

Prenatal Substance Exposure Workshop for Parents

Prenatal Substance Exposure Training for Child Welfare Professionals