Recommended Curricula

This comprehensive curriculum prepares and provides ongoing development for parents who want to foster or to adopt through the child welfare system. It has been adapted to meet the specific needs of kinship care providers; families who adopt via the intercountry or private domestic process; and American Indian Alaska Native families who foster, provide kinship care and/or adopt children from the tribal child welfare system. The curriculum provides education about a range of critical topics as well as “just-in-time” knowledge and skills when challenges arise. The NTDC offers flexibility in the use of their curricula content, which can be provided either virtually or in person.

This self-paced training is useful for both child welfare staff members as well as mental health practitioners. It aims to infuse enhanced permanency and mental health competency into the provision of casework and clinical practice so that professionals can provide better support to families across the life cycle. The NTI offers fully online, self-paced training that fits any schedule, 24 hours daily, every day of the week.

This curriculum equips prospective and current parents who will be or already are rearing older children from foster care who have moderate to severe emotional and behavioral challenges. The curriculum provides the knowledge and tools that these parents need to meet the needs of older children effectively. It provides education about a range of critical topics as well as “just-in-time” knowledge and skills when challenges arise. CORE Teen offers flexibility in the use of their curricula content, which can be provided either virtually or in person.