Set realistic expectations for the child and yourself.

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Featured Classroom-Based Themes

Classroom-Based Training Theme

Child Development

Classroom content explores:

Child Development
Typical child development as well as disruptive child development.
Parenting children
Committing to parenting children based upon their development level and not their chronological age.
Supporting children
Supporting children in reaching their unique and full developmental potential.

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Classroom-Based Training Theme

Effective Communication

Classroom content explores:

Sensitive Issues
Strategies to discuss difficult/sensitive issues with children in a supportive manner.
Empathy
Strategies to convey empathy.

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Featured Right-Time Themes

Recognizing that adults learn best when the information is applicable to their own situation, the NTDC has created a component of the curriculum called Right-Time Training.

Right-Time Training Theme

Building Parental Resilience

Right-time materials explore:

Physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being
Why maintaining physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being is important for parents who are fostering, adopting, or providing kinship care.
Self-care
Why self-care is a necessary component of good parenting and essential to strengthening resiliency.

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Right-Time Training Theme

Accessing Supports and Services

Right-time materials explore:

Support network
The benefits of a support network and strategies to develop this type of network.
Sign of strength
How seeking services and supports for both the child and parent who is fostering and/or adopting is a sign of strength.

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Interested in implementing NTDC?

Contact Sue Cohick [scohick@spaulding.org] to schedule an in-depth review of the curriculum.

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Words From Facilitators

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

NTDC Facilitator

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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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.