PRE-SERVICE TRAINING RESOURCES
Session Learning Guides and video links to help you along your fostering/adoptive journey.
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Call the NOAS office at 800-686-6627 ext. 126
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.
Orientation - Foster Care And Adoption
Caregiver Roles And Responsibilities
The Basics Of Placement
Video Resources
Trauma Overview
The Impact Of Trauma
Child Development
Adolescent Development
Maintaining Connections
Partnering With Primary Family
Discipline Foundations
Diversity Foundations
Permanency
Effects Of Caregiving with Medication Management
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES BELOW
PRESERVICE
YOUTH VERSION
NOAS
is a self-study packet for prospective adoptive and foster parents to review with their children as they are attending the Preservice series. This tool, developed by Bethany Strauss and Leah Wasburn-Moses at Miami University, helps parents discuss important topics with their children in preparation for an adoptive or foster child.
