PRE-SERVICE TRAINING RESOURCES
Session Learning Guides and video links to help you along your fostering/adoptive journey.
One of the first and most important steps foster and adoptive parents complete is pre-service training. Required by the State of Ohio, these classes are designed to educate you about the children available for adoption and to prepare you to parent them. The educational series is broken down into fourteen “sessions” covering different topics relevant to foster care and adoption, including support and services offered every step of the way. Please click through the sessions to access videos, handouts, and other relevant resources.
Session 1: Orientation - Foster Care And Adoption
Session 2: Caregiver Roles And Responsibilities
Session 3: The Basics Of Placement
Video Resources
Session 4: Trauma Overview
Session 5: The Impact Of Trauma
Session 6: Child Development
Session 7: Adolescent Development
Session 8: Maintaining Connections
Session 9: Partnering With Primary Family
Session 10: Discipline Foundations
Session 11: Diversity Foundations
Session 12: Permanency
Session 13: Effects Of Caregiving with Medication Management
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES BELOW
Call the NOAS office at 800-686-6627 ext. 123