Use play to connect.

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Featured Classroom-Based Themes

Classroom-Based Training Theme

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Classroom content explores:

Enhance and strengthen relationships
Caregiver behaviors that enhance and strengthen relationships.
Development of healthy relationships
Opportunities to work on the development of healthy relationships with children over an extended period of time.

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Classroom-Based Training Theme

Expanding Your Parenting Paradigm

Classroom content explores:

Techniques are not always effective
Why traditional parenting techniques are not always effective for children who have experienced separation, loss or trauma.
Meet the needs of children
Techniques that may need to be adjusted to meet the emotional, developmental, social and physical needs of children.

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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 Children’s Resilience

Right-time materials explore:

Stable and committed relationships
The importance of having a stable and committed relationship with a supportive parent, or another caregiving adult.
Developing and enhancing resilience
Strategies to incorporate into daily care, creating a holistic environment, which focuses on developing and enhancing resiliency.

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Right-Time Training Theme

Sensory Integration

Right-time materials explore:

Sensory detective
The role of being a “sensory detective” to determine children’s needs and patterns.
Parenting techniques
Proactive and new parenting techniques that ensure children’s sensory needs are being met.

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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.