June 24, 2009

Eugene, OR - FosterParentCollege.com® on Twitter. Find us as FosterCollege, where we'll post news about and opportunities with FosterParentCollege.com® and VStreet.com, sister companies produced by Northwest Media, Inc.

FosterCollege will also promote the successes and activities of selected organizations, track legislation affecting fostering, kinship care and adoption, and provide the occasional pearl of wisdom.

Not sure how to Twitter? It's simple, and it's a quick way find out what your favorite organizations are up to. Just go to Twitter, join (it takes two minutes) and click "Find People." Type in FosterCollege, and you will get to our page, then click "Follow."

FPC offers 27 courses and one Advanced Parenting Workshop taught by nationally recognized psychiatrists, psychologists, pediatricians, social workers, and educators. Over 23,000 foster, adoptive and kinship parents are members of the Eugene, OR-based website and they have taken more than 40,000 courses. The current lineup includes Culturally Competent Parenting, Grief and Loss in the Care System, Child Abuse & Neglect, Children with Autism, Positive Parenting 1, 2 and 3, House Safety and more. New classes are in development.

FosterParentCollege.com® is the first and only resource parent training website to be ranked by the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare.

FosterParentCollege.com® (FPC) received a "Promising Evidence" rating for the Scientific Research it has conducted and was given top marks for Relevance to Child Welfare.

The California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC) provides child welfare professionals worldwide with easy access to vital information about selected child welfare-related programs. Each program is reviewed and rated utilizing the CEBC Scientific Rating scale to determine the level of research evidence for the program. The programs are also rated for Relevance to Child Welfare.

Northwest Media, Inc. was founded in 1985 as a producer and publisher of social learning and educational products. Many courses it develops for FPC and VStreet are funded through federal SBIR grants. All online courses are developed, produced and delivered in our downtown Eugene office.

For more information about FosterParentCollege.com®, visit www.fosterparentcollege.com or call 1-800-777-6636.

For more information about Vstreet.com visit www.vstreet.com or call 1-800-777-6636.

For more information about this article, email Lisa Siegle at press@northwestmedia.com.