Learn to balance between connecting and correcting

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Featured Classroom-Based Themes

Classroom-Based Training Theme

Attachment

Classroom content explores:

Relationships
The relationship between attachment, safety, attunement and relationships.
Parent-child relationship
How to discipline in ways that protect and/or build parent-child relationship.

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Classroom-Based Training Theme

Trauma Related Behaviors

Classroom content explores:

Challenging behaviors
How challenging behaviors can be coping or survival strategies caused by underlying trauma.
Trauma-informed
Trauma-informed ways to parent.

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Chart for predictable escalating and de-escalating behaviors

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:

Calm children who are escalated
Strategies that can be used to calm children who are escalated.
Children feel safe
Ways to make children feel physically and psychologically safe.

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Right-Time Training Theme

Preparing for Adulthood

Right-time materials explore:

Transition to adulthood
The responsibility of the parent who is fostering to teach skills throughout all developmental stages that will help teenagers successfully transition to adulthood.
Importance to stay connected
The importance of continuing to support and stay connected with teenagers through the transition into adulthood and beyond.

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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.