Helping Children in the Foster Care System Succeed in School
Children in foster care often struggle with frequent changes of placement and school. What’s more the distraction of trauma they may have experienced and unfamiliarity with their foster care placements can impede learning. Understand barriers to academic success for children in foster care and learn effective policies and practices that can overcome challenges and help children assimilate in school, improve attendance and grades, and guide them along a path towards high school completion and more.
Improving Safety by Understanding Trauma
The vast majority of children who enter foster care arrive with significant exposure to adverse experiences and other traumatic events. Learn how trauma can drive child and youth behavior and how to respond in ways that are trauma-responsive and eliminate or mitigate negative engagements with youth.
Dealing with Parental Addiction
Parental substance use often occurs through multiple generations of the same family, and can lead to removal of children from the home. Learn about addiction, the role it plays in child wellbeing in and out of foster care, plus successful strategies for breaking the cycle of addiction.
How to Help Kids In or At Risk of Being in Foster Care (Without Being a Foster Parent)
“It takes a village to raise a child” is more than just a platitude. Learn about the spectrum of opportunity that fits your capacity to help children, foster parents, and biological parents thrive in difficult circumstances.
Avoiding, Mitigating and Understanding Runaway Situations
Running away is rarely a child or youth’s first choice. It is dangerous, scary and lonely to leave the safety of a family or home, yet kids who run often run frequently, endangering their physical health, mental health and futures. Why? Take a deep dive on why kids run, best responses to runaway situations and approaches and therapies that can prevent such self-endangerment.
Working with Teens and Youth Aging Out of Foster Care
Teens and older youth struggle frequently with permanency, multiple placements and success with school, relationships and independence. Find out how to help these kids navigate their adolescence in foster care and out, and avoid many of the pitfalls of growing up.
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