These courses enhance the existing skill set of the therapeutic foster parent. Courses are asynchronous and can be completed at your own pace. 

A certificate is provided after the course quiz and evaluation are completed.

Many foster parent agencies provide training to foster parents This training rarely includes discussion on the intense impact of loss on foster parents themselves or family members. 

Learning Outcomes:

#1 Review symptoms of grief and loss and disenfranchised grief 

#2 Identify patterns that can be implemented to ensure that all treatment team members are acknowledging the grief experience. 

#2 Identify resources foster parents can access to mitigate the grief experience 


Parenting adolescents is a journey for all caregivers as well as the adolescents themselves. Foster Caregivers who do not have a longterm history with their adolescents may feel ill equipped to walk along side them in the journey. 

Learning Outcomes: 

#1 Define the developmental steps of adolescence. 

#2 Practice utilizing a screening tool to help prepare your youth for independence

#3 Identify how the caregiver /teen relationship can be strengthened in the face of expected bumps 

This course reviews how trauma impacts the attachment experience. 

Learning Outcomes: 

Review attachment styles

Identify how behaviours reflect the early traumatic experience

Review ways to enhance the parent child relationship.




This course reviews the role of the unspoken partner in the foster care dynamic - your child. 

Learning Outcomes: 

#1 Review the role that biological children sometimes take on  in foster families 

#2 Consider ways to ensure that the needs of biological children are met.

#3 Identify how to ensure biological children do not experience vicarious trauma. 


This course digs into the the DSM diagnosis of Oppositional Defiant Disorder and how it shows up in behaviour. 

Learning Outcomes

#1 What is ODD? 

#2 Identify how ODD is communicated in behaviour?

#3 identify the impact of ODD on the caregiver / child relationship. 

#4 Identify ways to strengthen the attachment relationship.


Self harm strategies can be a way that children, youth and adults manage traumatic experiences. 

This short course will assist the caregiver to: 

Learning Outcomes 

#1 List various self harm strategies that children may exhibit

#2 Identify various self care strategies that children may exhibit.

#3 Review the neurobiology behind self harm 

#4 Identify ways that the caregiver can disrupt the self harming cycle