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Available Self-Study Courses:

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• The Young Child in Foster Care: Developmental Issues(4.0 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)
• Caring for the Aggressive Child in Foster Care (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 & Enforcing Boundaries with Relatives in Kinship & Adoptive Families (2.5 Hours)
• The Reasonable & Prudent Parent Standard: Information for Resource Parents (1.5 Hours)

Adoption and Guardianship Preparation Training for Alaska's Resource Families

This course is worth a total of 6.0 hours. To earn credit, print out the questionnaires at the end of each unit to submit them by fax or mail or scan to ACRF.

Adoption and Guardianship Preparation Training for Alaska’s Resource Families