foster parents News

This class helps parents anticipate and cope with the conflicting emotions their children may feel when the family opens their home to foster children.

Social service agency to host Monterey County adoption and foster care open house, Nov. 30

"Parent-Child Attachment" explains secure and insecure attachment, then explores how insecure attachment can affect child behavior and how attachment theory applies to real life.

Key Assets Kentucky is recruiting foster parents to provide family placements to children with complex needs.

The month of May is exceptionally special for children in foster care. Not because it’s the month in which we celebrate Mother’s Day; but because it's National Foster Care Month. Walden Family Services continues to be a voice for foster children.

Julie Schoemehl was crowned Mrs. Kansas International this month and will go on to compete for the title of Mrs. International 2011 during the fnal competition in Chicago this July.

Social workers can now receive continuing education credit through the NASW when they complete FosterParentCollege.com online classes.

Training starts in June for this new program, which gives consultants the expertise to provide precisely the level of in-house service agencies need to have a vibrant online training program valued by both agency staff and foster parents.

The FFTA has chosen to endorse FPC and FPC extends discount to FFTA member agencies.

New online class offers practical solutions and tools for helping to keep foster children and foster families safe in and out of the home.

The widely respected PREP marriage program will be adapted for resource parents and delivered online through Foster Parent College.

Northwest Media, parent company of Foster Parent College, has received a $1.2 million grant to collaborate with IHS of Ohio to develop an online version of its widely used pre-service training program for potential resource parents.

The Canadian Foster Family Association has elected to endorse Foster Parent College as an excellent training resource for foster parents throughout Canada.

FPC has become the only online training center for resource parents to be ranked by the CEBC. FPC received top marks for Relevance to Child Welfare and "Promising Evidence" for its research.

Grief is a natural reaction to the transitions in foster care. Children, birth parents and foster parents all suffer from the pain of loss when a child is moved. Charley Joyce, LISW, explores this grief and offers clear help for healing.

New mentor guides help foster parents and other mentors work through Vstreet life skills classes with teens preparing to transition out of care.

Online training for foster, adoptive and kinship parents can be a valuable tool for social services agencies. Foster Parent College courses supplement in-house training, plus provide quick help in a crisis. Learn how to get the most from FPC.

Dr. Richard Delaney explores the causes of tantrums, assaultive behaviors, rage towards the mother, and erratic anger, and helps foster, adoptive and kinship caregivers think of creative, effective methods for dealing with tough anger behaviors.

Foster parents can forget that their home is a state-licensed or certified residential care facility subject to safety inspections. House Safety, a recently released Foster Parent College class, helps parents prepare their hom to pass inspection.

Foster Parent College collaborated with Dr. Robert Nickel in the creation of its latest online class, Children With Autism. The course explores characteristic behaviors, recommendations for treatment, and other pressing topics.

A World for Children announced it will host its first annual Darkness to Light Gala, which is designed to raise funds for Texas-based foster children. It will be held on September 29, 2007 at 6:30pm at the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin, Texas.