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How do I become a foster parent?The Alaska Center for Resource Families provides resources and training for prospective foster families.View our newsletter!"Training Tracks", our quarterly newsletter, provides fresh coverage of topics of interest for foster and adoptive families.Self-Study Catalog!View or print ACRF's Self-Study catalog with Adobe Acrobat.
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Core Training for Resource Families:Resource CenterLinks and Information For The Newly Licensed Resource Family What is CORE? CORE refers to CORE Training for Resource Families. All Alaskan resource families should receive CORE training. CORE training consists of foundation information that foster, adoptive, or relative caregivers (‘resource families’) should have regarding caring for children who are placed out of parental care or away from birth families. Most often these children and families experience special issues associated with abuse and neglect. Being a foster or adoptive parent can be quite complex. The CORE Resource Center lists many web-link resources and additional information that builds on what families should be learning in the CORE Training for Resource Families or in the CORE self-study work book. Both are offered by the Alaska Center for Resource Families These resources help you to better understand the special needs of children involved in the child protection system. For those of you who are taking CORE classes or even if you are unfamiliar with CORE, we welcome you to this web site to explore and expand on information you may already possess.
The CORE curriculum covers the following topics:
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