Adoption Learning Partners offer meaningful, timely, web-based educational adoption resources for professionals, parents, adopted individuals, and the families that love them. Adoption Learning Partners also offer an array of interactive, e-learning courses that are designed to increase each person's understanding of the joys and challenges of adoption. They also serve as a resource for social service professionals,
equipping them with the training and tools they need to prepare
adoptive families and counsel people around post-adoption issues. Our
courses help social service professionals to meet a variety of new and
ongoing training requirements set forth by federal and state governments
and professional licensing associations.
Alaska Center for Resource Families
The Alaska Center for Resource Families (ACRF), a program of Northwest Resource Associates, offers one Featured Online Self-Study Course every month. Please visit the ACRF website and follow these steps to reach the Online Self-Study Course area:
- Visit www.acrf.org
- Click on the "Self Study" pink tab on upper right of page
- Select an option from the Self Study course page:
ACRF offers numerous online and written training courses and will begin to offer online courses through www.yourclassroom.com in the near future. Check back here for a list of courses as they become available.
Available Online Courses:
- The Young Child in Foster Care: Development and Growth
- Are You Ready? Emergency Response Planning for Alaskan Families
- Poison Prevention Course for Resource Parents
- FASD and the Use of Helmets
- Neglect: Hole in the Middle
- Fire Safety for Resource Families
- From One Family to Another: Keeping Children Connected to Birth Families
Available Written Self Study Courses:
- Helping Your Foster Child Transition to Your Adopted Child
- Positive Parenting in Foster Care
- Animal Cruelty
- Kinship Care
- Fostering Skills: Boundaries in Foster Care
- The Internet for Parents: The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Self Study Courses particular to Alaska Resource Families:
- What Every Alaskan Foster Parent Should Know Series
- #1 Positive Parenting and Managing Behaviors
- #2 Development of the Young Child in the Foster Home
- #3 Child Health and Medications
- #4 Nutrition and Eating in the Foster Home
- #5 Safety in the Foster Home
- #6 Foster Parent Training
- #7 Recordkeeping
- #8 Foster Homes with Specializations and Foster Group Homes
- #9 Confidentiality
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
The
American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) promotes
and supports child and adolescent psychiatry training and education,
publicizes training and education materials, and sponsors initiatives
to foster the development of new child and adolescent psychiatry
training programs through its Department of Research, Training and
Education. The AACAP develops curriculum modules for training programs,
offers fellowships and awards to encourage academic excellence,
holds education meetings, and publishes recruitment materials to
fulfill the needs of the profession.
- Visit
www.aacap.org
- Click
on "For Families" button at top of page
Caregiver Distance Netlink Trainings by Child Welfare Partnership (CWP)
Center for the Improvement of Services to Children and Families Child Welfare Partnership, Portland State University
The Center for the Improvement of Services to Children and Families Child Welfare Partnership (CWP) at Portland State Univeristy is now offering distance training via the computer for caregivers on a monthly basis. These trainings are called NetLink trainings. Caregivers can participate from their homes over the internet using a headset or in small groups at the branch offices. Course registration is handled within the Department of Human Services Learning Center at https://dhslearn.hr.state.or.us. Directions on how to register and find classes are listed below. Morning NetLink trainings begin at 8:30 a.m. and end at 12:00 noon, and evening NetLink trainings begin at 5:45 p.m. and end at 8:45 p.m.
What is NetLink Training?
NetLink is an interactive, dynamic distance delivery training option that allows caregivers to receive training, along with other caregivers around the state right to their homes or local branches. The training is done via the Internet right to your desktop in a Virtual Classroom. A Virtual Classroom is an online meeting space in which students, an instructor, and assistant instructors communicate, interact, and collaborate using a variety of classroom tools. You will need a headset, a computer and internet connection.
Current Schedule of Training
For registration instructions please visit the following website:
http://cwpsalem.pdx.edu/distance/resource.htm
NetLink Registration
Problems?
If you are experiencing any problems accessing the DHS Learning Center (login, registration, or NetLink class access) please contact the DHS Service Desk from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, at 503-945-5623 or contact NetLink technical Support at 503-378-5885. Or, you may contact Mark V. Schwier, Distance Delivery Trainer, at 503-399-2579,mschwier@chemeketa.edu
Center for Adoption Support and Education (CASE)
CASE"s nationally recognized training programs promote
adoption-competent post-adoption services for children and families
by reaching out to professionals, mentors and other significant
adults who can elicit substantial, positive impacts on all members
of the adoption circle. CASE offers trainings to the following community
members:
Contact
CASE for Fees and Information:
C.A.S.E. Training Program
4000 Blackburn Lane, Suite 260
Burtonsville, MD 20866
301-476-8525 (telephone)
301-476-8526 (fax)
caseadopt@adoptionsupport.org
(e-mail)
www.adoptionsupport.org
(website)
Child Trauma Academy
The
Child Trauma Academy (CTA) online
university offers free online courses for interested participants.
Currently we have four self-directed online courses:
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The Amazing Human Brain and Human Development
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Surviving Childhood: An Introduction to the Impact of Trauma
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The Cost of Caring: Secondary Traumatic Stress and the Impact
of Working with High-Risk Children and Families
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Bonding and Attachment in Maltreated Children
The
CTA has been providing live web-training and clinical consultation
services. Our Neurosquential
Model of Therapeutics (NMT) Case-based training model takes
place via conference call and Internet simultaneously using a web-based,
LiveMeeting model. Fifteen hours of direct training with Dr. Bruce
Perry -- no travel required.
Foster Parent College
Foster
Parent College (FPC) provides dynamic, interactive, multimedia training
courses for adoptive, kinship and foster parents.
ORPARC
offers FPC online courses to eligible adoptive/assisted guardianshp
parents at no charge. Contact ORPARC at 503-241-0799 (Portland),
1-800-764-8367 (toll-free), or e-mail orparc@nwresource.org
for more information.
FPC
courses focus on specific behavior problems or emotional disorders
in children, and explore practical solutions for the daily challenges
parents face. Dramatic vignettes, interviews with parents, and instruction
from nationally-known child welfare experts present powerful and
effective messages. As you watch the stories unfold, you"ll:
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develop an understanding of the problem
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recognize early warning signs
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gain insights
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discover possible steps to take in solving these problems.
Each
course is approximately 30-40 minutes in length, includes a summary,
an interactive question and answer section, and a Certificate of
Completion. Most courses include supplemental handouts. Check with
your agency to ensure that FPC courses qualify for training credit.
FPC
courses are available online as Self-Paced Courses or scheduled
Advanced Parenting Workshops. Parents can purchase courses on their
own, or agencies can purchase an agency account and offer the training
to parents. An agency account allows staff to register users, monitor
their progress, and offer customized courses. Sample online courses
are:
- Behavior
Management
- Anger
Pie
- Children
with Autism
- Childhood
Anxiety Disorders
- ADHD/ADD/ODD
- Reactive
Attachment Disorder
- Self-Harm
- Stealing
- Running
Away
- Wetting
and Soiling
- Sexualized
Behavior
- Sleep
Problems
- Lying
- Fire-setting
- Anger
Outbursts
- Eating
Disorders
- Parenting
Strategies
- Culturally
Competent Parenting
- Grief
& Loss in the Care System
- Child
Abuse & Neglect
- House
Safety
- Relationships:
Strengthening Communications
- Working
with Schools
- Working
with Birth Parents I: Visitation
- Kinship
Care
- Positive
Parenting I
- Positive
Parenting II
- Positive
Parenting III
- Safe
Parenting
- Advanced
Parenting Workshops
- Agency
Staff Training
- CASA/GAL
Advocates
- Independent Living
Think:Kids
Think:Kids
is a program in the Department of Psychiatry at the non-profit Massachusetts
General Hospital that trains adults in a revolutionary new way of
helping kids with social, emotional, and behavioral challenges.
Think:Kids offers online training videos to parents of children
with difficult behaviors. Think:Kids uses techniques described in
the book Treating Explosive Kids: The Collaborative Problem
Solving Approach.