Ongoing Online Training

Foundations Training for Oregon

(Pre-service training requirement for foster, adoptive, relative caregivers)
Foundations Registration Course Instructions (.pdf)
Currently available online through Skype for Business due to COVID-19.

Free Online Training*
*available for a limited time

• Better Together: Exploring Mental Health a video series for tough times to help us with our mental health on specific themes covered related to parenting.
• Special Education Distance Learning Webinars by FACTOregon (Enlgish & Espanol)
• Stress, Distress & Trauma Video Series by Bruce Perry and Neurosquential Network
• The Arc: 2020 State Virtual Convention by The Arc Oregon (education & information related to Intellectual/ Developmental Disabilities)

Organizations
The following organizations offer training online, some for free or at a minimal cost.

• Adoption Learning Partners
• Alaska Center for Resource Families (ACRF), a Program of Northwest Resource Associates
• Center for Adoption Support and Education (C.A.S.E.)
• Foster Parent College
• North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC)

YouTube Videos

• Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University
• Child Trauma Academy Channel
• Think:Kids
• Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) videos, Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development