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Available Self-Study Courses:

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**NEW** Understanding the Regulations: What Alaskan Foster Parents Need to Know

• Unit #1: Positive Parenting and Managing Behavior (1.0 Hour)
• Unit #2: Daily Life, Program and Activities (1.0 Hour)
• Unit #3: Child Health Care and Medications (1.0 Hour)
• Unit #4: Nutrition and Eating in the Foster Home (1.0 Hour)
• Unit #5: Safety in the Foster Home (1.0 Hour)
• Unit #6: Foster Parent Training (1.0 Hour)
• Unit #7: Recordkeeping (1.0 Hour)
• Unit #8: Supervision, Alternate Caregivers and the Reasonable & Prudent Parent Standard (1.0 Hour)
• Unit #9: Confidentiality (1.0 Hour)
• Unit #10: Fire Safety, First Aid and Emergency Preparedness in the Foster Home (1.0 Hour)

Self-Study Courses

• The Young Child in Foster Care: Developmental Issues(4.0 Hours)
• Caring for the Aggressive Child in Foster Care Part 1: Strategies for Reducing Aggression (3.0 Hours)
• Caring for the Aggressive Child in Foster Care Part 2: Responding to Out-of-Control Behavior (2.0 Hours)
• Fostering Children and Teens with Mental Health Problems (5.0 Hours)
• Creative Parenting Strategies for Traumatized Children (5.0 Hours)
• When Your Foster Child Needs Counseling (2.5 Hours)
• FASD Tips for Parents and Caregivers (2.0 Hours)
• Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Preschool and Elementary Issues (4.0 Hours)
• Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: An Introduction for Foster Parents (3.0 Hours)
• Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Caring for Foster Children with FASD (5.0 Hours)
• The Adolescent Sexual Offender (4.0 Hours)
• Adolescents with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (4.0 Hours)
• Understanding Self-Injury (3.0 Hours)
• Child Abuse and Neglect in the Young Child(5.0 Hours)
• The Internet: What Parents Need to Know (2.5 Hours)
• Understanding the Birth Parent (3.0)
• Supervision in Foster Care(2.0 Hours)
• Focusing on ADHD: A Guide For Foster Parents (3.0 Hours)
• Supporting Legal Rights for Teens.pdf (2.5 Hours)
• Discipline in Foster Care - Techniques for Parents (4.0 Hours)
• Dealing with Lying and Stealing: Looking at Dishonest Behaviors (3.0 Hours)
• Secrets Revealed! Confidentiality in Foster Care (1.5 Hours)
• Religious and Spiritual Issues in Foster Care (2.0 Hours)
• Kinship Care.pdf (2.0 Hours)
• Setting and Enforcing Boundaries with Relatives in Kinship and Adoptive Families (2.5 Hours)
• The Reasonable and Prudent Parent Standard: Information for Resource Parents (1.5 Hours)