Core Training for Resource Families Resource Center

This page holds the Handouts and Homework Assignments for participants in the current Zoom classes for the Core Training for Resource Families and the Core for Relative Caregivers. If you are interested in signing up for Core Training, please go to Training Calendars to find the next upcoming class.

For lots of great resources when you are starting out, go to: MORE CORE RESOURCES FOR NEW FOSTER PARENTS

CLASS HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS:

#1:Caring for a Child Impacted by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and Questionnaire

#2: Check out our CORE RESOURCE CENTER and share one link you explored on the Questionnaire

#3: Alaska Resource Family Handbook and Questionnaire

#4:The Reasonable and Prudent Parent Standard and Questionnaire

Encouraged Activity: Talk It Over As A Family


CORE TRAINING/RELATIVE CORE SESSION MATERIALS:

Relative Core - Session 1: Kinship Caregiving: Keeping it in the Family Part 1 of 2 - Monday, October 18

Tuesday, October 19 - Core Session 1: Understanding Trauma & How Children Respond to Trauma

Thursday, October 21 - Core Session 2: Intro to Trauma Informed Caregiving Principles 1-3

Relative Core - Session 2: Kinship Caregiving: Keeping it in the Family Part 2 of 2 - Monday, October 25

Tuesday, October 26 - Core Session 3: Intro to Trauma Informed Caregiving Principles 4-6

Thursday, October 28 - Core Session 4: Trauma Informed Caregiving Principles 7-9

Tuesday, November 2- Core Session 5 / Relative Core Session 3: Understanding the Office of Children's Services & Overview of ICWA -

Thursday, November 4 - Core Session 6 / Relative Core Session 4: The Role of the Resource Family

Tuesday, November 9 - Core Session 7 / Relative Core Session 5: Working with Birth Parents, Transitions/Reunifications -

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