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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

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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.)

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Introduction to Prenatal Exposure for Those Considering Adoption

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Kinship Adoption

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Open Adoption: Handling Difficult Birth Parent Situations

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Navigating Special Education and IEP/504 Process

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Parenting Children Who Have Experienced Trauma

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Parenting Toolkit for Harder to Parent Kids

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Partnering with Birth Parents in Foster Care

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Physical and Emotional Health Issues Common with Foster Kids

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Practical Solutions to Typical Food Issues

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Practical Tips for Disciplining Children Who Have Experienced Trauma

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Practical Tips for Disciplining While Maintaining Attachment

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Preparing Children Already in the Home for Adoption

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

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

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Talking with Kids About Adoption at Different Ages

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Talking with Young Children About Adoption and Birth Parents

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The Impact of Fostering on Kids Already in the Family

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Transitioning from Foster Care to Adoption

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Trauma-Informed Parenting: Practical Applications of TBRI

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Unexpected Stresses on Newly Adoptive Parents

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What Do Kinship Caregivers Need to Succeed?

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What Is It Like Being Raised in an Open Adoption?

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

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

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What's It Like to be in Foster Care?

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2023 Adoption Tax Credit

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Healthy Sexuality for Youth in Foster Care

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Understanding Psychotropic Medications