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.)

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…

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.

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 min.)
• Part 4 (4 min.)

This 13-minute video explains what CMEs are, who provides them, how to prepare for them, and how they can help you and your child.
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Listen as alumni of foster care show you what it means to embrace resilience as an identity. Come along as we share our journeys from trauma to triumph.
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This 3-minute video shows that when we invest in proven strategies that help strengthen families, we prevent child abuse and neglect before it even happens.
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Lifebooks are tools that help answer young people’s questions about their life stories.
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Describes steps parents should take to ensure children and youth are safe online.
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A great place to find resources for helping children and teenagers recover from traumatic events.
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