Fostering NC
A learning site for North Carolina foster and adoptive parents and kinship caregivers.
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Trauma and Behavior
This video series covers how trauma affects the brain, why traditional behavior management approaches often don’t work, the importance of positive relationships for healing, and advice for struggling caregivers. Part 1 (5 min.) Part 2 (4 min.) Part 3 (5 … Continued
Grief: How Resource Parents Can Cope with and Learn from Loss
This course explores common reactions to loss, offers strategies for working through grief, and features interviews in which resource families share their experiences of grief and healing. (1 hr.) 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
Preparing for and Responding to Disasters
This course teaches North Carolina resource parents how to keep children and youth safe before, during, and after disasters. (1 hr.) Take course…
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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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