On-Demand Classes

The Creating a Family Audio Courses

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7 Core Issues in Adoption and Foster Care

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Adopting a Child from Another State

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Adopting a Child Who Identifies as LGBTQ

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Adopting as a Single Parent

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Connected Parenting: Understanding TBRI

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Disrupting Birth Order in Adoption and Foster Care

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Evaluating Risk Factors in Foster Care Adoption

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Finding an Adoption and Foster Competent Therapist

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First Six Month with an Opiate Exposed Baby

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Foster Care Adoption Subsidies: What is Reasonable and How to Negotiate

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Healing after Abuse and Neglect

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Helping Adopted Children Heal From Past Trauma and Loss

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Helping Children Heal from Sexual Abuse

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How a Parent's History w/ Attachment & Trauma Impacts Adoption & Fostering

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How Do Transracial Adoptees Develop a Racial Identity

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How to Afford Adoption

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Adopting Older Kids: Things to Consider

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Adopting Siblings: Issue to Consider

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Adult Transracial Adoptees Teach Us About Adoption

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Combining Kids by Birth & Adoption

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Impact of Prenatal Exposure to Opiates, Opioids, Methadone, Suboxone, and Other Common Drugs

FosteringNC.org On-demand courses

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Introduction to Attachment

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Introduction to Foster Care Adoption

Introduction to Foster Parenting

12 FREE 1-hour foster parent CE courses with Certificates of Completion. (Made available through the generous support of Jockey Being Family®️Full discount applied automatically at purchase.)

Introduction to Prenatal Exposure for Those Considering Adoption

Kinship Adoption

Open Adoption: Handling Difficult Birth Parent Situations

Navigating Special Education and IEP/504 Process

Parenting Children Who Have Experienced Trauma

Parenting Toolkit for Harder to Parent Kids

Partnering with Birth Parents in Foster Care

Physical and Emotional Health Issues Common with Foster Kids

Practical Solutions to Typical Food Issues

Practical Tips for Disciplining Children Who Have Experienced Trauma

Practical Tips for Disciplining While Maintaining Attachment

Preparing Children Already in the Home for Adoption

Should You Consider Adopting a Child of a Different Race or Ethnicity?

Talking About the Difficult Parts of Your Adopted Child's History

Talking with Kids About Adoption at Different Ages

Talking with Young Children About Adoption and Birth Parents

The Impact of Fostering on Kids Already in the Family

Transitioning from Foster Care to Adoption

Trauma-Informed Parenting: Practical Applications of TBRI

Unexpected Stresses on Newly Adoptive Parents

What Do Kinship Caregivers Need to Succeed?

What Is It Like Being Raised in an Open Adoption?

What Is It Really Like to Raise a Child with FASD?

What You Need to Know About Open Adoption When You're Thinking About Adopting

What's It Like to be in Foster Care?

2023 Adoption Tax Credit

Healthy Sexuality for Youth in Foster Care

Understanding Psychotropic Medications