This course is Closed Captioned Disponible en español
Dr. Robert Nickel and Susan Edelstein, M.S. discuss the issues and challenges faced by parents who care for substance-exposed infants, including the effects of legal and illegal drugs, multiple substance abuse, working with the child's professional team, and successful parenting strategies. [Also available in Spanish]
This course is Closed Captioned Disponible en español
Explores the challenges foster families face pre-placement, during placement, and post-placement and offers insights and advice for helping birth children through those challenges. [Also available in Spanish]
Joseph Crumbley, D.S.W. explores issues specific to kinship care. The course focuses on some of the unique problems and stressors related to this type of care. Dr. Crumbley offers caregivers insights and steps on kinship parenting, and he provides general steps for parents to consider when parenting these special foster children. Supplemental handouts are included.
At the end of this course, you will be able to:
identify two reasons for the increase in children in kinship and relative care
identify three reasons why kinship/relative care is positive for the child
state three challenges faced by kinship providers
identify clinical issues or fears that can impact the behavior of a child in kinship care
list strategies for helping a child develop respect for, trust in, and loyalty to the kinship family
list ways to acknowledge a child's feelings and develop positive, appropriate ways to communicate
identify steps for involving all family members in developing a plan for the child
My wife and I have been taking care of her niece and nephew for a long time. .... When I completed this course it helped me and my wife to do better and be better parents. We know where our mistakes lie and we are willing to change them. Thank you for this course, it helped us out alot.
—Jack H.
I really enjoyed the course and the speaker, Dr. Crumbley. As a relative caregiver trying to become a more effective parent, I got some ideas from this course that I'm going to follow up on.