This day and a half training will assist foster/adoptive parents to develop strategies for parenting emotionally disturbed or challenging children. Co-trained by a foster/adoptive parent and an experienced caseworker, participants will also learn skills to cope with the stresses of parenting challenging children.

Foster parents, kinship care providers, adoptive parents, and interested child welfare professionals.

Care givers will be given preference over child welfare professionals when registering.

• Understand the principles of good parenting
• Understand the difference between behavior management and behavior modification
• Understand how abuse and neglect impact brain development and child development
• Understand the effects of prenatal substance exposure and mental illness on children
• Understand the characteristics of successful foster parenting