FREE courses are being offered to all Foster Parents, and Extended Family Caregivers  through FosterParentCollege.com. They  If you would like to take a course, please email [email protected]

Foster Parent College (FPC)

FREE courses are being offered to all Foster Parents, and Extended Family Caregivers  through FosterParentCollege.com. They are a great way to learn or review subjects related to fostering, from home. If you would like to take a course, please email [email protected] Check out http://www.fosterparentcollege.com/

http://www.fosterparentcollege.com/index.jsp offers affordable research based training for foster, adoptive and kinship parents. The self-driven training is accessible 24 hours a day, seven days a week.  FPC has conducted more than 40,000 online training sessions since 2005. The programs are built using ‘visual learning techniques’, FPC courses are fun, easy and effective. Designed by nationally recognized experts in the fields of parenting, pediatrics, psychology, psychiatry, and education, FPC courses are sought after by foster care agencies and praised by caregivers.

FPC offer two types of in-service courses:

  • Self-Paced Courses provide
  1. visual instruction
  2. printable handouts
  3. question & answer sessions with immediate feedback
  • Advanced Parenting Workshops offer
  1. extended in-depth three-week courses
  2. 24/7 access for participants for the duration of the course
  3. community discussion board to interact with the group
  4. tested problem solving approaches