Get Started as a Foster Parent

Welcome—and congratulations on your decision to explore foster parenting!

Your pre-service learning in the New Foster Parent Academy includes

  • 4 Web-based trainings and
  • Foster Parent Fundamentals: Healing. Hope, a hybrid training.

You must complete all of your Web-based trainings before you participate in Foster Parent Fundamentals.

Let's Get Started!

  1. Create your account.
  2. Register for and complete The Reasonable and Prudent Parent Standard.
  3. Register for and complete Safe Sleep: Creating Safe Sleep Environments for Infants.
  4. Register for and complete Child Development and the Effects of Trauma: The Essentials.
  5. Register for and complete one of the following three courses. Select the course that corresponds the the ages of children you’d like to foster. (Unsure? Just pick one, and you can choose others later.)
    • Child Development and the Effects of Trauma: Infant and Toddler Development
    • Child Development and the Effects of Trauma: School Age Child Development
    • Child Development and the Effects of Trauma: Adolescent Development
  6. Register for and complete Foster Parent Fundamentals: Healing. Hope.

Questions? Please drop us a line and we’ll be happy to help.