Shared Parenting For Resource Parents
The goals of this course are to increase resource parents’ understanding of shared parenting, their role in supporting shared parenting, and strategies for helping children maintain connections to their family of origin. (1.5 hr.) Take course…
Supporting and Sustaining Sibling Connections
The primary aim of this course is to increase resource parents’ awareness of their role in maintaining sibling connections, the impact of separating siblings, and strategies for supporting sibling connections. (1 hr.) Take course…
Trauma-Informed Behavior Management
The focus of this course is to increase resource parents’ awareness of behavior management, how trauma impacts behavior, and strategies for supporting positive behaviors and managing challenging behaviors. (1.5 hr.) Take course…
Promoting Protective Factors While Parenting Youth
The focus of this course is to increase resource parents’ self-awareness around parenting, enhance their understanding of the importance of developing supportive and authentic relationships, and identify strategies to strengthen protective and promotive factors with youth. (1 hr.) Take course…
Helping Children and Youth Succeed in School: A Course for Resource Parents
In this course, participants will learn how to support and advocate for the educational needs of children and youth in care. Participants will also learn about educational outcomes, legislation that provides resources and supports including Individualized Education Plans and 504 Plans, as well as their role in supporting and advocating for the educational needs of children and youth in care. (1 hr.) Take course…
Human Trafficking 101 for Resource Parents
New Course – This course explains what human trafficking is, how to recognize it, and how North Carolina resource parents can respond. (90 min.) Take course…
Guardianship, Pathway to Permanence
This course provides North Carolina resource parents information about guardianship, which is a route to permanence for some youth in foster care. (1 hr.) Take course…
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…
Promoting Brain Gains for Youth Emerging from Foster Care
This 4-minute video discusses adolescent brain development and ways child welfare systems inhibit or encourage opportunities for the successful transition to adulthood. To download the report this video is based on, click here.