3:50 PM - 4:50 PM     The National Training and Development Curriculum for Foster and Adoptive Parents: Loss and Trauma-Informed Parenting

4:50 PM - 5:00 PM     Conference Closing Remarks (access to the conference certificate and CE contact form opens)

Presentation Description:

The National Training and Development Curriculum for Foster and Adoptive Parents is a new state-state-of-the-art curriculum that will be available at no cost to states, tribes, territories, and agencies beginning June of 2022. This presentation gives an overview of the curriculum and what will be available. Some of the curriculum’s central tenets will be explored such as the need for parents who foster or adopt to expand their parenting paradigm to meet the needs of children who have experienced loss and trauma. Participants will be given an opportunity to experience some of classroom components focused on building essential knowledge and skills for parents who wish to foster or adopt.

 Learning Objectives:

Participants will:

• Become familiar with a new state-of-the-art training program to prepare foster and adoptive parents to effectively parent children exposed to trauma, separation and loss.
• Increase their knowledge of the evaluation outcomes of the NTDC project.
• Experience parts of the classroom curriculum as facilitated for prospective foster and adoptive parents and kinship caregivers