Description

This is a virtual course!

This class fulfills the current 12-hour requirement for adoption approval of foster parents who were trained in STARS to become approved as an adoptive resource.  You must attend all 12 hours to receive credit.  This training covers the adoption process, common issues in adoption, as well as practical ways to address challenges.   If you are interested in taking this course, you need to have your licensing worker register you.

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

    • DAY 1 Zoom Link

    • DAY 2 Zoom Link
  2. 2

    • Spaulding
  3. 3

    • Survey