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Free, Trauma-Informed, & Culturally-Relevant Curriculum Now Available!

A Closer Look Inside NTDC

In this short video, hear directly from parents and professionals about how this free resource is educating and empowering them with trauma-informed, culturally-relevant, and flexible training and tools.

What is the NTDC Curriculum?

The National Training and Development Curriculum (NTDC) is a new curriculum that is based on research and input from experts, families who have experience with fostering or adopting children, and former foster and adoptive youth. It provides potential foster or adoptive parents with the information and tools needed to parent a child who has experienced trauma, separation, or loss. It is a state-of-the-art classroom and online program that helps to prepare prospective foster and adoptive parents to be successful parents. In addition, the NTDC gives parents access to information and resources needed to continue building skills once they have a child in their home.

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Our Goal

Our goal is to provide a state-of-the-art training program to prepare foster and adoptive parents to effectively parent children exposed to trauma, separation and loss and to provide these families with ongoing skill development needed to understand and promote healthy child development.

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Who This Website Serves

This website is designed for child welfare and intercountry, private domestic adoption agency staff and parent trainers who are considering the use of or are currently using the NTDC curriculum.

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Words From Facilitators

I loved the material, especially the displays of understanding and the stories!

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I appreciated the activities that tugged on my own emotions because it took a personal experience and related it to what kids in foster care experience but to a higher degree.

NTDC Facilitator

The “Real-Life” videos and examples are also excellent tools for empowering foster/adoptive parents.

NTDC Facilitator

Theme content incorporating many podcasts and real life videos will greatly enhance foster parent training.

NTDC Facilitator

Material is well organized, rich in content for families and easy to understand.

NTDC Facilitator

Love the trauma informed material that will help parents gain a better understanding of child’s behavior.

NTDC Facilitator

The building of themes really work well together. It flows very well in the format.

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Families and facilitators participating in the Pilots can log in here to access further information and resources.

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This product was funded by the Children’s Bureau, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, under grant #90CO1134. The contents of this document are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Children’s Bureau.

Free, Trauma-Informed, & Culturally-Relevant Curriculum Now Available!

A Closer Look Inside NTDC

What is the NTDC Curriculum?

Our Goal

Who This Website Serves

Words From Facilitators

Quick Links

Pilot Site Users

Stay informed!