Winter 2017 |
Nine Spanish Pre-Service CoursesFoster Parent College has been steadily working with a professional translator to create Spanish versions of our eleven pre-service courses. This huge task is coming to a conclusion!
Stay tuned to FosterParentCollege.com as the remaining two Spanish pre-service courses will be added soon. |
New Workshop! Self-InjuryWhen children purposefully self-injure, parents are understandably alarmed. In this Advanced Parenting Workshop, Dr. Rick Delaney, with the help of a young woman who has self-injured, will explore what self-injury is and what it means. Then a family study is presented of a teenager named Hannah who has experienced trauma and secretly cuts herself. Participants will use interactive exercises to apply the strategies of trauma-informed parenting to respond to Hannah's needs. In this new workshop, participants will experience a blend of online video-based training, share discussion postings with other parents from around the world, and submit assignments which are reviewed by a trained teaching assistant. |
Update! Create Your Own SeriesAt Foster Parent College we strive to listen and respond to the needs of the agencies which use our courses. We have upgraded the management system with our new Series Training Program. This program allows agencies with unlimited accounts to create clusters of FPC courses and register, monitor, and manage parents' progress through them. This program also supports blended training, using clusters of online courses in conjunction with in-person meetings. |
Off Road ParentingNow in its 3rd printing, Off Road Parenting gives resource parents tools and techniques to help change a child's undesirable behavior. Published by Northwest Media – parent company to FosterParentCollege.com – this practical handbook helps foster, adoptive, kinship, and birth parents to discover how disruptive behavior can be changed, recognize and respond to both "acting out" and "hidden behaviors," and understand the nature of positive discipline. Available to order on www.SocialLearning.com. |
Study of Understanding Noncompliance WorkshopNorthwest Media, Inc. (NWM) recently completed a study of the Advanced Parenting Workshop on Understanding Noncompliance. Participants for the online study were recruited by email through NWM's database of resource parents who have taken FPC courses and who met the eligibility requirements. Participants were randomly assigned to either the treatment or control group, and participants in both groups completed online pre- and posttest assessments, including parenting attitudes and knowledge questionnaires. Both the workshop and the evaluation study were funded by Small Business Innovation Research Grant #R44 HD056645 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. |
FREE Weekly Webinars for Agency Staff!Foster Parent College provides free webinar trainings to agency staff. The webinars give an overview of our courses, introduce the FPC management system, and explain how to customize the system to fit agencies' reporting needs. To view the webinar schedule or request a private training, visit the FosterParentCollege.com
Free Webinars! page. |
Welcome New AgenciesWe extend a warm welcome to these new agencies which have recently joined fosterparentcollege.com.
As a reminder, agencies should periodically check FPC's Affiliate Map or Become a Foster Parent Map to confirm their agency information is correct. These maps help resource parents, or individuals interested in becoming resource parents, find agencies that accept FPC training towards their annual training requirements. The Affiliate program is FREE to all agencies. If you aren't listed but wish to become listed, please fill out an Application online. |
Welcome New FPC Staff!We'd like to introduce FPC's newest staff members:
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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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