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: More Core Resources “Lookabout” and Questionnaire Do this exercise and find lots more resources by clicking the More Resources Box below or go directly to CORE RESOURCE CENTER

#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, August 9

Tuesday, August 10 - Core Session 1: Understanding Trauma & How Children Respond to Trauma

Thursday, August 12 - 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, August 16

Tuesday, August 17 - Core Session 3: Intro to Trauma Informed Caregiving Principles 4-6

Thursday, August 19 - Core Session 4: Trauma Informed Caregiving Principles 7-9

Tuesday, August 24- Core Session 5 / Relative Core Session 3: Understanding the Office of Children's Services & Overview of ICWA -

Thursday, August 26 - Core Session 6 / Relative Core Session 4: The Role of the Resource Family

Tuesday, August 31 - Core Session 7 / Relative Core Session 5: Working with Birth Parents, Transitions/Reunifications -

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