Be attuned to the child’s needs and being prepared to alter your routine to meet their needs.

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Featured Classroom-Based Themes

Classroom-Based Training Theme

Creating a Stable, Nurturing and Safe Home Environment

Classroom content explores:

Sense of security
Approaches for developing and maintaining daily routines that will provide a sense of security for children.
Family routines and rituals
Opportunities to change family routines and rituals to meet the needs of children instead of making the children change to meet the family routines and rituals.
Psychologically and physically safe
Strategies to help children impacted by trauma and loss feel psychologically and physically safe in the home.

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Classroom-Based Training Theme

Kinship Parenting

Classroom content explores:

Kinship care
How kinship care can change family roles, causing tensions with extended family members, birth families and children.
Protect the safety
Setting limits with birth parents in ways that protect the safety of children while demonstrating the importance of the birth parent to the child.

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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

Preparing for and Managing Visitation

Right-time materials explore:

Role of parents
The role of parents who are fostering or adopting in preparing for and managing visitations.
Strategies
Strategies to help prepare children for visits with their families.
Importance of visits
The importance of visits for children even if results in their behaviors becoming disruptive.

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Right-Time Training Theme

Managing Placement Transitions

Right-time materials explore:

Transitions
The impact transitions have on all aspects of children’s life including emotional, educational, relational and physical.
Staying connected
Strategies to stay connected before, during and after a transition has occurred.
Staying flexible
Staying flexible to meet children’s needs during transitions.

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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.

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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.