Helping Children with Birth Family Connections/ Sharing Parenting in Foster Care Credit Hours: 3

Gains and Losses: Helping Children Leave Foster Care Credit Hours: 3

Understanding the Impact of Fostering or Adopting Credit Hours: 3

Teamwork and Partnership Credit Hours: 3

This training provides information regarding the required timelines to access behavioral and urgent health services, requires a placement packet, protects caregivers against charges from the Department of Child Safety due to their children’s mental illness and it provides Out of Home request timelines. Participants will also learn how to get involved as a private citizen… Continue reading →

Please join us for a phone orientation to answer your questions about foster care and find out how to become a foster parent. Must complete a short phone questionnaire prior to the Orientation. Call Lynn Rhodes at 928-606-3954 to complete the questionnaire.

Allowing children to test boundaries while in care can help them learn about natural consequences and the importance of making positive choices. (Texas DFPS, 2013) This training will allow the caregiver to make decisions for children in care re: social activities lasting 1 or more days, sign permission slips, and in general provide typical childhood… Continue reading →

According to the National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (NOFAS) up to 80% of children with FASD do not stay with their birth families. It is also estimated that almost 70% of the children in foster care are affected by prenatal exposure to alcohol. Children coming from substance abusing homes are more likely to spend… Continue reading →

Endings and Beginnings Credit Hours: 3

Please join us for a phone orientation to answer your questions about foster care and find out how to become a foster parent. Must complete a short phone questionnaire prior to the Orientation. Call Lynn Rhodes at 928-606-3954 to complete the questionnaire.