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Substance-Exposed Infants Now Available in Spanish

Substance abuse is a major public health problem that crosses all economic, racial, and ethnic backgrounds, and each year, approximately 15% of infants born in the United States are affected by prenatal drug exposure. Caring for children who have been substance exposed provides unique challenges to foster, adoptive, and kinship parents. To address the needs of resource parents who prefer to learn in Spanish, FosterParentCollege.com has just launched its popular online course Substance-Exposed Infants translated into Spanish.

With the release of Bebés expuestos a drogas, 13 FosterParentCollege.com courses are now available in Spanish:

f Apego entre padres e hijos (Parent-Child Attachment)

f Bebés expuestos a drogas (Substance-Exposed Infants)

f Crianza sensible al trauma (Trauma-Informed Parenting)

f Cuestiones culturales en la crianza (Cultural Issues in Parenting)

f Del cuidado temporal a la adopción (Foster Care to Adoption)

f Desarrollo del niño (Child Development)

f El cuidado de niños que han sido sexualmente abusados (Caring for Children Who Have Been Sexually Abused)

f El efecto de la crianza temporal en los hijos biológicos (The Impact of Fostering on Birth Children)

f El equipo de bienestar del menor (The Child Welfare Team)

f El esfuerzo conjunto con las familias primarias (Working Together with Primary Families)

f Entender el comportamiento de niños en crianza temporal (Understanding Behavior in Foster Children)

f Maltrato y negligencia infantil (Child Abuse and Neglect)

f Reducir el estrés familiar (Reducing Family Stress)

To see previews, visit http://www.fosterparentcollege.com/info/full-list.jsp#spanCourses

“Promising Research Evidence” rating from the CEBC

We are delighted to announce recognition of our blended preservice training by the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC), which gave it a "Promising Research Evidence" rating. The innovative FPC-IHS Blended Training provides core resource parenting information in ten online, highly interactive courses. These online courses are combined with four classroom sessions that allow for a mutual assessment by the agency and the potential resource parents while holding discussions about parenting concepts and agency-specific rules.

A research study of 111 prospective resource parents, conducted by Northwest Media, Inc.* and the state of Oregon, compared a traditional classroom-only training approach to the new blended preservice training. The FPC-IHS Blended Training produced a significantly greater increase in relevant knowledge from pre- to post-test. The blended training also produced an added bonus of substantially lowering the dropout rate compared to the classroom-only training and resulted in a significantly higher rate of parents completing the training. An article about the research study was published in the journal Child Welfare, Volume 93(6).

For more information about the FPC-IHS Blended In-Person and Online Pre-service Training for Resource Parents, see the listing on the CEBC website (go to http://www.cebc4cw.org and search “FPC”).

* Northwest Media, Inc. is the parent company of FosterParentCollege.com®.

NFPA Code of EthicsFamily foster care is an integral component of the child welfare system that requires foster parents—with essential support from their agency—to be dedicated to the welfare of the children in their care. Created by the National Foster Parent Association, the code of ethics sets clear expectations and principles to establish basic values and guide practice. With permission from NFPA, we have added the Code of Ethics to the FosterParentCollege.com website. To see it and other free resources visit: http://www.fosterparentcollege.com/info/resources.jsp

Summer 2018

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New Course!Understanding Birth Family RelationshipsWhen a family adopts a child, it is a permanent lifetime commitment to that child. However, adopted children are also permanently connected to their biological family and have a need to understand that connection. In Understanding Birth Family Relationships, Dr. Audra Langley, Executive Director of the UCLA TIES for Families Program, explains how adoptive parents can find the right balance for their family and work together with their children to address this need.

Launched this spring, this immediately popular course shares interviews with parents, adopted children, and a birth mother. The course highlights the benefits of developing a relationship with birth family members and then explores ways to bridge a connection, even with little to no direct contact.

This 2-credit course is now available. To see preview, visit http://www.fosterparentcollege.com

Now in ProductionTo provide resource parents with the information they need to support the children in their care, Foster Parent College is continually creating new courses or updating existing ones. A number of courses and workshops are currently in production, including:

f Children Entering Care: Physical Health Issues (to be released this summer)

f Advanced Parenting Workshop on Aggression (in study)

f Advanced Parenting Workshop on Problematic Sexual Behaviors (now being recorded)

f Children Entering Care: Mental Health Issues (in production)

f Spanish version of Supporting Normalcy (being translated)

f De-escalation Techniques (in scripting)

f Children with Autism, 2nd Edition (in scripting)

f Human Trafficking (in preparation for scripting)

f Kinship Care (in preparation for scripting)

Coming Soon! Children Entering Care: Physical Health Issues

As many as 80% of the children coming into care have a chronic medical condition, including asthma, obesity, or hearing and vision problems. In Children Entering Care: Physical Health Issues, developmental pediatrician, Dr. Robert Nickel, will explain why children coming into care need a “medical home” and how resource parents can work with the medical home to successfully manage their child’s health problems. Then Dr. Nickel will briefly explore some of the common health problems resource parents can expect when a child comes into their family.

Children Entering Care: Physical Health Issues will be released later this summer; stay tuned to FosterParentCollege.com or any of our social media channels.

About FosterParentCollege.comFosterParentCollege.com has been providing online, interactive courses designed specifically for foster, adoptive, and kinship families since 2004. Today we offer over 60 courses (including 13 in Spanish) taught by nationally recognized experts. Staff at participating agencies have access to our administrative management system, which lets them register parents as users, assign courses, distribute handouts, and track program progress. At the same time, resource parents have the flexibility to take courses at their own convenience and pace, wherever internet access is available.

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