Fostering NC
A learning site for North Carolina foster and adoptive parents and kinship caregivers.
What We Do
Featured:
Shared Parenting
In these videos, former foster parent Donna Foster explains shared parenting in foster care, discusses common challenges, and offers advice to foster parents. Part 1 (2 min.) Part 2 (2 min.) Part 3 (2 min.)
Kinship Caregiver Resources
This new FosteringNC.org page features a collection of courses and other resources of special interest to kinship caregivers. Visit…
Suicide and Self-Injury in Children and Teens
This 1-hour course helps resource parents understand suicide and non-suicidal self-injury in children and adolescents and teaches them how to respond. Take course…
Critical Partners for Permanency
This 1-hour course explains why North Carolina prefers to achieve permanence through reunification or kinship care, the importance of shared parenting and helping youth maintain connections with people that matter to them, and the role kinship care can play in … Continued
What We Do
On‐Demand Courses
The short courses, all of which are free, are available any time and include a certificate of completion learners can share with their supervising agencies.
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Resources
The following are key resources for North Carolina’s foster and adoptive parents and kinship caregivers.
Foster parents are encouraged to talk in advance to their supervising agency about obtaining training credit through fosteringNC.org.
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