• New Placements: Preparing & Adjusting Family Roles

    New Placements: Preparing & Adjusting Family Roles will help foster and adoptive parents introduce new placements into their existing family units. It gives ideas and strategies on how to prepare […]

  • Internet Safety

    The Internet Safety training explores questions caregivers often have related to internet safety. It examines recommended guidelines for internet access and usage among children. It provides resources related to parental […]

  • Understanding A Case Through The Child Welfare System

    Understanding a Case Through the Child Welfare System will provide foster and adoptive parents knowledge on how a case progresses through the child welfare system. Each case may include removal, […]

  • Healing After A Foster Child Leaves Your Home

    Healing After a Foster Child Leaves Your Home will equip foster parents understand, cope with and heal from the unique pain of a foster child leaving their home. It offers […]

  • Positive Discipline For Teenagers

    Positive Discipline for Teenagers will provide foster/Adoptive Parents with effective tools that will guide them to positive discipline and communication with teenagers that are in their care/home. It discusses the […]

  • Attachment & Bonding With Your Foster & Adopted Child

    Attachment & Bonding with your Foster & Adopted Child equips parents to enhance their relationship with foster/adopted children by teaching them the basics about bonding and attachment. This training also […]

  • Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew

    Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew will equip foster and adoptive parents to understand the thoughts and feelings children who are adopted may experience. It offers strategies […]

  • Understanding The Brain & Fear Responses In Traumatized Children

    Understanding the Brain and Fear Responses in Traumatized Children provides an overview of brain development and how fight/flight/freeze fear responses may manifest in children who have experienced trauma. In addition, […]

  • Guiding Your Child Through Adolescence 

    Guiding Your Child Through Adolescence explores the physical and emotional changes that children undergo as they enter adolescence. Parents will discuss how parental roles change during this period of their […]

  • Keeping Families Strong

    Keeping Families Strong provides foster parents insight on how to keep partnerships, families and friendships strong while providing care to out of home children. It will also provide strategies for […]

  • Foster/Adoptive Parents Of Teens Support Group

    ASK-VIP Support Group for Foster/Adoptive Parents of Teens is specifically designed for foster/adoptive parents who are caring for teenagers or those considering fostering and/or adopting teenagers. This support group offers […]

  • Foster Parent Safe Zone Training

    Foster Parent Safe Zone Training March 28, 2023 10:00 AM-12:00 PM EST Via Zoom Carla Jordan, MS 2 credit hours Becoming a foster and/or adoptive parent can present its own […]