Celebrate the small successes.

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Featured Classroom-Based Themes

Classroom-Based Training Theme

Trauma Informed Parenting

Classroom content explores:

Trauma informed parenting techniques
The reasons that trauma informed parenting techniques work more effectively with children who have experienced separation, loss, and other forms of trauma.
New parenting skills
The time and effort needed to develop new parenting skills to successfully parent children with a history of trauma/loss.

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Classroom-Based Training Theme

Building Parental Resilience for Kinship Caregivers

Classroom content explores:

Enhancing the resilience of children
Concepts and definitions related to enhancing the resiliencee of children who have experienced trauma, separation, or loss.
Protective factors
Protective factors are described along with strategies on how to build upon these factors to support children develop their identity, self-esteem, and skills toward self-advocacy.

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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

Responding to Children in Crisis

Right-time materials explore:

Dysregulation
Signs of a child who is moving toward dysregulation.
Calm children
Strategies that can be used to calm children who are escalated.
Keep oneself regulated
Techniques to keep oneself regulated even during crisis.

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Right-Time Training Theme

Education

Right-time materials explore:

Challenges in school
Challenges that children in foster care and children who have been adopted may face in school settings.
Academic growth
Building support for a child’s academic growth according to their developmental age.

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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.