(On-demand) Mentorship Series: Reach, Raise, Love, and Train the Next Generation
This free training is provided by the National Foster Parent Association Teaching mentors about ways to reach, raise, love, and train the next generation, Brian
FPAWS monthly caregiver online training. Watch each month as we line up trainers on everything foster care and parenting. We partner with some of your favorite trainers to bring you trainings that mean so much to people that have children in their lives. All our trainings count as licensing hours. You will receive a certificate to share with your licensor.
Alliance Cares Training – official training for DCYF is coordinated through here.
The Alliance for Child Welfare Excellence provides in-person and online training hours for foster parents and kinship carers, offering tons of courses that can be taken at your convenience and at your own pace. Topics are wide-ranging and appropriate for all levels of experience.
Coordinated Care – training sessions run by community educators from Apple Health. Besides the scheduled events, groups and organizations can request a session on any of the covered topics, or training in Youth Mental Health First Aid from certified instructors.
Focus on Foster Families is a toolkit of videos and resources designed to support foster youth and their caregivers improve their skills related to communication, emotional regulation, problem solving, and goal setting.
Foster Care Institute (Dr John DeGarmo) offers a newsletter and subscription access to online training and live webinars
Foster Parent College: mostly paid online training on a broad variety of topics
Mental Health America: runs an ongoing series of live webinars on a range of topics, some are also made available to watch as recordings. Certificates of attendance are available for live events.
This free training is provided by the National Foster Parent Association Teaching mentors about ways to reach, raise, love, and train the next generation, Brian
Thursday, October 22, 202012:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT Join us for a webinar that will feature information that child welfare professionals need in their
Native youth are three times more likely to experience foster care than their white peers. We must not only provide more culturally relevant support for
October 8 – YMCA Caregiver training: working with birth parents
October 15 – Stolen Youth presents Going Online: The Changing Landscape of Child Sex Trafficking
Do you have ideas that would strengthen foster care in your area? Are you committed to ensuring that foster parents have the training and support
From DCYF: Short stories about young animals who display characteristics of kids with FAS, followed by a guide to caring for your child through each