2023 trainings
VIDEO:
Talking to Kids about Consent and Porn with NC Stop Human Trafficking
VIDEO:
Internet Safety with NC Stop Human Trafficking
Healthy Sexuality for youth in Foster Care
The free online training, tip sheets, and a report summarizing how we adapted the curriculum into an online course are located here. We encourage you to take a look at the webinar slides and recording and check out the event page for more information.
2022
Adolescent WEBINARS & Trainings
FOSTERINGNC.ORG offers a menu of free online courses on topics such as:
Advocating for mental health services
Child and Family Team meetings
Guardianship
Human Trafficking
Intellectual and developmental disabilities
Loss and its impact on youth in care
Resource parent grief
Parenting LGBTQ youth
Supporting the transition to adulthood, and
Visits
To take these or any of our other courses, visit our on-demand courses page. FosteringNC.org is brought to you by the NC Division of Social Services and its training partners.
ONLINE: Training on Adolescent Development
This series focuses on how caregivers can support healthy development in adolescence. It also explores ways to support youth whose development has been disrupted by trauma. Participants will learn about brain development at this age, developmental milestones for teens, how to promote teens’ healthy development and how attachment and parenting styles influence the outcomes teens experience.
Teaming with Teens
2022 Summit
Missed this year’s Foster Family Summit: Teaming with Teens on February 5th & 10th, 2022? Please click below to review the topics and watch the video recordings!
Archive of trainings from 2021
2021 Training & Events
JUNE 17th webinar: Family First Prevention Services Act with Linda Waite, Section Chief - Regulatory & Licensing WATCH NOW
MAY 18th webinar: we will be featuring the book Story of Foster Care. We meet a few of the authors, find out about those pictured in the book, and learn how we can support the Empty Frames Initiative. To Watch click HERE
MARCH 25th webinar: The Resource Parent Curriculum (RPC) (officially titled Caring for Children Who Have Experienced Trauma: A Workshop for Resource Parents) is an eight-module workshop designed to educate resource parents on the effects of trauma on the children in their care. WATCH NOW
FEB 25 Webinar: A Brain-Based Approach to Parenting. Foster Family Alliance of North Carolina - Online Event hosted by FFA or NC. Please register ahead of time in order to receive a meeting link and handouts via email on the day of the meeting. This training is sponsored by NCFASD WATCH NOW
FEB 18 Webinar: Introduction to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum DisordersFoster Family Alliance of North Carolina - Online Event hosted by FFA or NC. Please register ahead of time in order to receive a meeting link and handouts via email on the day of the meeting. This training is sponsored by NCFASD WATCH NOW
FEB 15: Foster Parent Online Info Session- Join us for an online Information Session to learn more about becoming a foster or foster-to-adopt parent. Event by Children's Hope Alliance
JAN 21 WATCH HERE to see the video from the webinar on Taxes while Fostering and Adopting Registration
2021 SUMMER CAMP DIRECTORY:
A FREE RESOURCE GUIDE FOR FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN WHO HAVE SPECIAL NEEDS. Click here to view
2021 Summit
If you missed the 2021 Foster Family Summit held May 22, 2021 please click below to review the topics and watch the video recordings!
2020 Webinars
Click here to see the resources from Guardianship Webinar on Oct 15th 2020
WATCH the Guardianship Webinar HERE