For the past year and a half, Foster Parent College has been working with a professional translator to create Spanish versions of our eleven pre-service courses. This has been a huge task which is coming to a conclusion.
We are happy to announce that five of our pre-service courses are now available in Spanish:
Apego entre padres e hijos (Parent Child Attachment)
Desarrollo del niño (Child Development)
El efecto de la crianza temporal en los hijos biológicos (Impact of Fostering on Birth Children)
El equipo de bienestar del menor (Child Welfare Team)
Maltrato y negligencia infantil (Child Abuse and Neglect)
Stay tuned to
FosterParentCollege.com as courses will be added as soon as they are complete.
New Workshop! Understanding Noncompliance
Parents expect and appreciate cooperation from their children, and resource parents are no exception. As Rick Delaney, instructor for this course reminds us, "Foster, adoptive, and kinship parents have a challenging job in helping a child learn to balance his or her own needs, with the need to be a cooperative member of the family."
Understanding Noncompliance is the latest course in Foster Parent College's Advanced Parenting Workshop series. This six-credit hour course delves deep into the reasons children are noncompliant, with a focus on the relationship between compliance and past trauma experiences. Topics include the spectrum of cooperation and noncompliance, how trauma contributes to a child's noncompliant behavior, and how to help a child deal with the aftereffects of trauma. With the help of Dr. Delaney and his assistants, participants examine two family studies and explore parenting strategies for youth in care who are noncompliant.
Understanding Noncompliance was made possible through a Small Business Innovation Research Grant (#R44 HD056645) from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to Northwest Media, Inc., parent company of FosterParentCollege.com.
Free Weekly Webinars for Agency Staff
Foster Parent College provides free webinars for agency staff. These weekly webinars give an overview of our courses, introduce the FPC management system, and explain how to customize the system to fit agencies' reporting needs. Visit
fosterparentcollege.com/info/webinar-schedules to see our weekly schedule, or email Laurie (Laurie@northwestmedia.com) to schedule a private webinar for your organization or agency.
UPDATE! Create Your Own Series (coming soon)
At Foster Parent College we strive to listen and respond to the needs of the agencies which use our courses. With the new "series" function currently being developed, agencies with unlimited accounts will be able to create clusters of FPC courses, schedule those clusters around in-person meeting times, and track parents' progress through them. We are in the final stages of developing this new feature and will release it as soon as it is ready.
Coming Soon! Trauma-Informed Parenting
Most children in care have experienced trauma in their lives. By understanding how trauma impacts children, resource parents can use that knowledge to address their child's difficult behaviors, and at the same time provide a supportive and stable environment which will nurture their child's resiliency.
Our expert for Trauma-Informed Parenting is Chris Foreman, a Liaison for the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress co-located at UCLA and Duke Universities. In this course, Ms. Foreman will show how parents can use the Trauma-Sensitive Review Form to systematically collect information about a child and then apply that information to tailor their parenting strategies.
Trauma-Informed Parenting will be released on the FosterParentCollege.com website within the next few weeks.
Recently Added Courses
Foster Parent College continually adds new courses and updates existing courses as often as possible. Beyond the above announcements, the following courses have been recently added to FosterParentCollege.com:
It's My Marriage
Noncompliance and Defiance
Taking Things/Stealing
Advanced Parenting Workshop on Taking Things without Permission
Fire Play and Fire-setting (updated)
Sleep Problems (updated)
Welcome New Agencies
We extend a warm welcome to these new agencies which have recently joined FosterParentCollege.com.
Brevard Family Partnership in Florida
Kids Central in Florida
Our Kids in Florida
A Better Way in California
180 Community Wellness Centers in Nevada
Bamboo Sunrise in Nevada
Get the Best in Nevada
SAFY of Nevada
If your agency would like a customized flier to send to parents or agency staff please contact Laurie at Laurie@northwestmedia.com or 800-777-6636.