Spring 2018 |
Introducing Three New Courses!“When you're in foster care you lead such a very sheltered life that once you become an adult and age out, you don’t have any skills necessary to survive on your own.” Historically, protective restrictions within the child welfare system limited children’s participation in activities outside the home. In an effort to give children in care a more typical childhood, a new approach known as normalcy is being implemented nationwide. Supporting NormalcyTo assist resource parents in providing a more typical upbringing for children in their care, FosterParentCollege.com® has just released its latest course, Supporting Normalcy. Our expert, Kevin George, MSW, Foster Care Program Manager for the state of Oregon, explores how resource parents can use the reasonable and prudent parenting standards to provide children the opportunities to learn skills and develop relationships while living in a stable, loving family and supportive community. Mr. George is joined by a resource parent and two foster care alumni, including Schuyler, who provide insights into their own experiences. Crianza sensible al traumaVirtually all children who enter care have experienced significant trauma in their lives due to abuse and/or neglect. Caring resource parents often struggle to understand and support children who have experienced trauma and who may react to events in ways that are unexpected. In an effort to further support Spanish-speaking resource parents who are providing nurturing care to these children, FosterParentCollege.com has just released its popular course, Trauma-Informed Parenting, translated into Spanish.
Parenting a Child Who Was Substance ExposedNationally, the opioid epidemic is causing an increase in the number of children coming into care and available for adoption. One of the biggest concerns for caregivers and potential adoptive parents is how drugs may be impacting the child in their care. Parenting a Child Who Was Substance Exposed addresses how substance exposure might impact children throughout their childhood. The course also covers how parents can build attachment with their child, understand and work with a child’s temperament, and establish a balanced parenting approach.
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Growing Pains!Thank you! for bearing with us as we continue to upgrade our operating system and make other adjustments to speed access to all of our courses. We hope you are now experiencing quick access to all parts of FosterParentCollege.com! |
Welcome, Arizona!At the beginning of the year, the state of Arizona began using a modified version of the FPC-IHS Blended Pre-Service Training Curriculum throughout the state. This pre-service curriculum combines 10 online courses from FosterParentCollege.com with four in-person training sessions. In Arizona, the curriculum for the in-person sessions was modified to meet the needs of the state. This blended approach to pre-service training has been shown in a statewide study to lower dropout rates of adults preparing to become foster parents.
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Welcome, California Child Welfare AgenciesAs we announced last newsletter, the California Department of Social Services has contracted for the use of FosterParentCollege.com to provide online training for its resource parents. We are in the implementation stage of adding agencies and parents.
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In ProductionAt FosterParentCollege.com we are continually creating new courses or updating existing ones in order to provide resource parents with the information they need to support the children in their care. A number of courses are currently in production, including:
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Parental advice: Eugene company offers online training for foster parentsThank you to The Register-Guard of Eugene, Oregon for this nice write-up about Northwest Media, Inc., FosterParentCollege.com, and our founder, Lee White. Full Register Guard Article |
Welcome, New AgenciesFosterParentCollege.com is proud to welcome four new agencies since the start of this year, along over 200 agencies throughout the state of California! Potential resource parents use our Affiliate Map to find an agency to work with in their area. At the same time, foster parents use the map to see if their agency accepts FosterParentCollege.com training credits. Please visit the Affiliate Map to ensure that your agency is listed correctly, and if by chance your agency is not listed, please let us know. |
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Solutions for Agency Staff is a quarterly newsletter produced by FosterParentCollege.com with the goal of sharing recent updates with our users.
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