On Demand Right-Time Trainings Offered

Right-time trainings build off the foundational concepts as part of the NTDC curriculum. Right-time training aims to give you “the right training at just the right time.” In other words, right-time training gives you the information you need at the time you need it to take action. Right-time training helps you learn how to handle a problem or challenge and immediately apply what you learned to your situation.

The following is a list of the On Demand Right-Time Training with accompanying descriptions, note that these trainings are available in English and Spanish:

Accessing Services and Supports

In this course, we will describe how to become an advocate for the children in your home to ensure they receive the services and supports that they need.

Throughout the course, emphasis is placed on being a life-long learner, recognizing the importance of developing a support network (school, community supports, friends, medical), and learning about the types of services and supports that you or the children in your home might find beneficial.

Building Children’s Resilience

This course will help you identify ways to support resilience in children who have experienced loss, separation, or other traumatic events.

Building Parental Resilience

In this course, we will focus on why and how caregivers who are fostering, adopting, or providing kinship care can build their resilience. We will spend time focusing on self-care because it is a necessary component of good parenting and essential to strengthening resiliency.

Common Feelings Associated with Being Adopted

This course is designed for pre-adoptive and adoptive families. It will help you to understand more about common feelings children can have that are associated with being adopted.

Education

In this course, we will highlight some common educational challenges faced by children in care. We will also discuss some of the services and supports that can be put in place for children including Individualized Education Plans (IEP) and 504 plans, as well as strategies that can be used to partner and advocate with the school system to ensure their educational needs are being sufficiently addressed.

Expanding Your Parenting Paradigm

This theme helps participants understand why traditional parenting is not effective for children who have experienced separation, loss, or trauma. The theme helps identify parental strengths as well as the need to adapt parenting techniques to support these children and helps to create awareness of changes needed to be made to parenting values and beliefs. The importance of adapting parental expectations, the need to not take things personally, and the value of cultural humility are highlighted. Characteristics for successfully parenting children who have experienced separation, loss or trauma are identified, including flexibility, patience, nurturing, compassion, and sense of humor.

Family Dynamics

This course is for families who are in the process of becoming foster, adoptive, or kinship caregivers or for those who have just recently started this journey. It will provide critical information that a family needs to think about in regards to how bringing children into their home will impact their marriage, children already in the home, relations with extended family and friends, and overall schedule.

This course also provides information on what families should consider when determining how and when to bring new children into their home including making informed decisions regarding the age of children and types of behaviors that the family could effectively handle.

Intercountry Adoptions Medical Considerations

This course will help familiarize you with the purpose of adoption-competent medical consultations and common medical conditions impacting children who have experienced group care or lived in orphanages.

Life Story Birth Story and Adoption Story

This course will help you understand the importance of introducing a child's birth and adoption story early and making it a part of natural, ongoing conversations with children.

Managing Placement Transitions

This course will help you effectively support children experiencing transitions both into and out of your home.

Overview of Child Welfare System

This theme helps participants understand the child welfare system and how it operates, including the key players and their roles. Critical laws that have shaped child welfare are covered and the role of the court system and how decisions get made is explained. Also covered are the reasons children enter the child welfare system and the types of maltreatment children may face. The permanency options that exist for children and the importance of being considerate of a child’s sense of time are highlighted.

Preparing for Adulthood

This course will outline your critical role as a parent who is fostering or adopting in ensuring that youth develop skills to help them prepare for adulthood.

Preparing for and Managing Visitation

This course will help you understand how to check in and address children’s concerns, questions and emotions before and after visits with their families.

Responding to Children in Crisis

Being a foster, adoptive or kinship caregiver has many joys, but it is not always easy. At some point, parents may experience challenges and even crises. Crises can be a real opportunity for children, parents, and families to grow.

In this course, we will explore practical information you can use to understand different phases of crises and identify steps to proactively manage triggers. You will also find suggestions for setting up an environment to ensure the children you care for feel physically and psychologically safe.

Sensory Integration

This course will help you identify behaviors related to sensory integration difficulties and give you strategies to aid a child with sensory integration challenges in the home, school, and community.

Sexual Development and Identity

This course provides an overview of healthy sexual development and how parents who are fostering, adopting, or providing kinship care can help children navigate through this development. You will hear from families’ experiences and from key experts about how parents can best support and accept children as they come to understand who they are.

Sexual Trauma

Sexual abuse is something that some children who are in foster care, kinship care or have been adopted have endured. A child's history of sexual abuse may not be known when they enter the child welfare system.

You may have concerns about parenting children who have been sexually abused. However, it is important to know by providing a safe and nurturing home, parents who are fostering, adopting, or providing kinship care can help children to thrive and recover.

We know that sexual abuse and trauma are difficult subjects to consider. Be sure to prioritize your own self-care as you review the content in this course.

On Demand Right-Time Trainings Offered

Right-time trainings build off the foundational concepts as part of the NTDC curriculum. Right-time training aims to give you “the right training at just the right time.” In other words, right-time training gives you the information you need at the time you need it to take action. Right-time training helps you learn how to handle a problem or challenge and immediately apply what you learned to your situation.
Register for On Demand Right-Time Training Courses

The following is a list of the On Demand Right-Time Training with accompanying descriptions, note that these trainings are available in English and Spanish:
	Accessing Services and Supports In this course, we will describe how to become an advocate for the children in your home to ensure they receive the services and supports that they need. Throughout the course, emphasis is placed on being a life-long learner, recognizing the importance of developing a support network (school, community supports, friends, medical), and learning about the types of services and supports that you or the children in your home might find beneficial.
	Building Children’s Resilience This course will help you identify ways to support resilience in children who have experienced loss, separation, or other traumatic events.
	Building Parental Resilience In this course, we will focus on why and how caregivers who are fostering, adopting, or providing kinship care can build their resilience. We will spend time focusing on self-care because it is a necessary component of good parenting and essential to strengthening resiliency.
	Common Feelings Associated with Being Adopted This course is designed for pre-adoptive and adoptive families. It will help you to understand more about common feelings children can have that are associated with being adopted.
	Education In this course, we will highlight some common educational challenges faced by children in care. We will also discuss some of the services and supports that can be put in place for children including Individualized Education Plans (IEP) and 504 plans, as well as strategies that can be used to partner and advocate with the school system to ensure their educational needs are being sufficiently addressed.
	Expanding Your Parenting Paradigm This theme helps participants understand why traditional parenting is not effective for children who have experienced separation, loss, or trauma. The theme helps identify parental strengths as well as the need to adapt parenting techniques to support these children and helps to create awareness of changes needed to be made to parenting values and beliefs. The importance of adapting parental expectations, the need to not take things personally, and the value of cultural humility are highlighted. Characteristics for successfully parenting children who have experienced separation, loss or trauma are identified, including flexibility, patience, nurturing, compassion, and sense of humor.
	Family Dynamics This course is for families who are in the process of becoming foster, adoptive, or kinship caregivers or for those who have just recently started this journey. It will provide critical information that a family needs to think about in regards to how bringing children into their home will impact their marriage, children already in the home, relations with extended family and friends, and overall schedule. This course also provides information on what families should consider when determining how and when to bring new children into their home including making informed decisions regarding the age of children and types of behaviors that the family could effectively handle.
	Intercountry Adoptions Medical Considerations This course will help familiarize you with the purpose of adoption-competent medical consultations and common medical conditions impacting children who have experienced group care or lived in orphanages.
	Life Story Birth Story and Adoption Story This course will help you understand the importance of introducing a child's birth and adoption story early and making it a part of natural, ongoing conversations with children.
	Managing Placement Transitions This course will help you effectively support children experiencing transitions both into and out of your home.
	Overview of Child Welfare System This theme helps participants understand the child welfare system and how it operates, including the key players and their roles. Critical laws that have shaped child welfare are covered and the role of the court system and how decisions get made is explained. Also covered are the reasons children enter the child welfare system and the types of maltreatment children may face. The permanency options that exist for children and the importance of being considerate of a child’s sense of time are highlighted.
	Preparing for Adulthood This course will outline your critical role as a parent who is fostering or adopting in ensuring that youth develop skills to help them prepare for adulthood.
	Preparing for and Managing Visitation This course will help you understand how to check in and address children’s concerns, questions and emotions before and after visits with their families.
	Responding to Children in Crisis Being a foster, adoptive or kinship caregiver has many joys, but it is not always easy. At some point, parents may experience challenges and even crises. Crises can be a real opportunity for children, parents, and families to grow. In this course, we will explore practical information you can use to understand different phases of crises and identify steps to proactively manage triggers. You will also find suggestions for setting up an environment to ensure the children you care for feel physically and psychologically safe.
	Sensory Integration This course will help you identify behaviors related to sensory integration difficulties and give you strategies to aid a child with sensory integration challenges in the home, school, and community.
	Sexual Development and Identity This course provides an overview of healthy sexual development and how parents who are fostering, adopting, or providing kinship care can help children navigate through this development. You will hear from families’ experiences and from key experts about how parents can best support and accept children as they come to understand who they are.
	Sexual Trauma Sexual abuse is something that some children who are in foster care, kinship care or have been adopted have endured. A child's history of sexual abuse may not be known when they enter the child welfare system. You may have concerns about parenting children who have been sexually abused. However, it is important to know by providing a safe and nurturing home, parents who are fostering, adopting, or providing kinship care can help children to thrive and recover. We know that sexual abuse and trauma are difficult subjects to consider. Be sure to prioritize your own self-care as you review the content in this course.