Foster Parent College
Foster Parent College
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Anger Pie
Rick Delaney, PhD discusses the ABCs of behavior in relation to anger outbursts in 5- to 10-year-old children.
Training Provider: Foster Parent College
Training Type: Self-Directed, Online , 2 credit hours
Building Trust, Motivating Change
This class explores how to engage teens in behavior change by using the techniques of motivational interviewing (MI), including: building trust; the components of MI; change talk.
Training Provider: Foster Parent College
Training Type: Self-Directed, Online , 2 Hours
Child Safety & Supervision
This course presents strategies for safe and appropriate supervision including: pre-placement interviewing; safety plan development; in-home observations and adjustments; being a childcare team member
Training Provider: Foster Parent College
Training Type: Self-Directed, Online , 2 Hours
Could It Be FASD?
While fetal alcohol spectrum disorders are surprisingly common in children in care, they can often be difficult to diagnose, as the signs and symptoms are associated with a number of other conditions.
Training Provider: Foster Parent College
Training Type: Self-Directed, Online , 2 Hours
Escalating Behaviours Unwrapped
This class explores escalation and de-escalation, including: the “thinking brain” vs. the “survival brain”; the escalation cycle; de-escalation strategies.
Training Provider: Foster Parent College
Training Type: Self-Directed, Online , 2 Hours
Lying (2nd Edition)
This course explores four types of lying problems with children: getting out of trouble, gaining attention, pathological, getting others in trouble
Training Provider: Foster Parent College
Training Type: Self-Directed, Online , 2 credit hours
Lying vs. Telling Untruths
This explores untruth telling, including: purposes for the untruths, potential origins of untruth, telling how to respond.
Training Provider: Foster Parent College
Training Type: Self-Directed, Online , 2 Hours
Noncompliance and Defiance
This class explores the spectrum of behaviors associated with cooperation and noncompliance, including: fearful compliance, cooperation, noncompliance, defiance
Training Provider: Foster Parent College
Training Type: Self-Directed, Online , 2 credit hours
Parenting a Child Who Was Substance Exposed
This class explores parenting children who were substance exposed, including: risk and protective factors, effects of prenatal substance exposure and drug endangerment, attachment and temperament, parenting approaches
Training Provider: Foster Parent College
Training Type: Self-Directed, Online , 2 credit hours
Positive Parenting 1
This course explores three types of positive parenting techniques: encouragement, cooperation, tracking behavior
Training Provider: Foster Parent College
Training Type: Self-Directed, Online , 2 credit hours
Running Away
This course explores five types of running away behavior with children: searching for roots, running from rules, running from love and intimacy, wanting to be wanted, running to street crime
Training Provider: Foster Parent College
Training Type: Self-Directed, Online , 2 credit hours
Sleep Problems (2nd Edition)
This course explores four types of sleep problems in children: fears about sleeping alone, frequent waking and roaming, nightmares and night terrors, sleep problems and depression
Training Provider: Foster Parent College
Training Type: Self-Directed, Online , 2 credit hours
Supporting Normalcy
This course explores how providing children in care a normal childhood relates to supporting normalcy, reasonable and prudent parenting standards, and making decisions about and advocating for their participation in activities
Training Provider: Foster Parent College
Training Type: Self-Directed, Online , 2 Hours
Taking Things - Stealing
This class explores common reasons for taking things including: experimentation, intellectual disability, trauma history, social or psychiatric problems
Training Provider: Foster Parent College
Training Type: Self-Directed, Online , 2 credit hours
The Impact of Fostering on Birth Children
Explores the challenges foster families face pre-placement, during placement, and post-placement and offers insights and advice for helping birth children through those challenges.
Training Provider: Foster Parent College
Training Type: Self-Directed, Online , 2 credit hours
Understanding Sex Trafficking
This class explores human sex trafficking, including: commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC); risk factors and vulnerabilities; parenting strategies
Training Provider: Foster Parent College
Training Type: Self-Directed, Online , 2 Hours
Working with Birth Parents: Visitation
This course explores different aspects related to visitations with birth parents: coping with frustration, supporting the foster child after the visit, cancellations and no-shows, working with caseworkers and custodians, pre-visit anxiety
Training Provider: Foster Parent College
Training Type: Self-Directed, Online , 2 credit hours
Working with Schools
Roles and responsibilities, entering a new school, working with the school staff, special education, and parent advocacy are discussed in this course.
