Therapeutic Foster Care is committed to ensuring that there are enough qualified individuals and professionals in the community to support children with special needs.
Through an interdisciplinary staff of highly skilled professionals, the program provides specialized training and technical assistance to individuals and professionals who want to learn more about children with serious physical, medical, cognitive and emotional challenges. Training is individually designed to meet the specific needs of beginning and advanced level administrators, social workers, case managers, foster and adoptive parents, therapists and other professionals. See our Events Calendar for scheduled training dates for each individual support group.
Training and technical assistance can be provided in the following areas:
- Supporting foster and adopted children with disabilities
- Impact of attachment and loss on children
- Strategies for helping children with emotional and behavioral problems
- Permanency planning
- Creative program design in foster care: New solutions to recurring problems
- Adoption issues impacting families and children
- Program placement services
- Outcomes and research
Support from Experienced Professionals:
Training provided through the Therapeutic Foster Care Program is coordinated by clinical social workers experienced in the delivery of services to children in the foster care system who have a variety of disabilities and medical conditions. Experts, including nurses, physicians, psychologists, physical, occupational, and speech therapists, social workers and treatment foster parents who are experienced presenters, develop the training and technical assistance programs.