Description:

Participants will explore how race impacts foster and adoptive children as well as ways to support children in developing a positive racial identity.

Instructor(s)

Family Training Specialist

Janice Byrd

Janice is a Family Training Specialist at FosterAdopt Connect. She has a bachelor’s degree in social work. Janice has over twenty-five years’ experience in the child welfare field, working with both foster/adoptive and birth parents. She and her husband were licensed foster parents for twelve years and are adoptive parents. Janice has provided numerous trainings for foster and adoptive parents.

Course curriculum

  1. 1

    • Zoom Link
  2. 2

    • 10 Tips to Teaching and Talking to your Kids About Race

    • Books for Children Regarding Race

    • Positive Affirmations for Children

    • Want to Continue the Conversation?

  3. 3

    • Survey