Training Requirements
State regulations require that applicants for regular foster parenting
complete a 27 hour pre-service education course. Applicants for
treatment foster care parenting must complete the basic 27 hour course
plus an 8 hour pre-service training. This course has a number of goals:
- To give foster parents the information needed
to handle routine matters such as medical and psychological care,
clothing needs, education, and visitation with the birth family.
- To provide foster parents with the skills
needed to handle problems as they arise.
- To develop problem-solving and teamwork
skills.
- To teach foster parents the ethical, legal
standards for which compliance is required.
- To assist foster parents in anticipating the
negative, critical or suspicious attitudes that foster children often
exhibit.
- To identify for foster parents those elements
of the foster child's behavior which can be attributed to his
experience of being a foster child.
- To expose the prospective foster parents to
experiences of veteran foster parents, with particular emphasis on
building positive relationships with birth families and social
services' staff.
Attendance is mandatory. |
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