Adding a foster child to the family shakes up existing roles and routines. Birth children may be excited about having a new child in the home and at the same time resent the attention their parents give to the new child. Those feelings begin before the foster child arrives, when foster parents are busy with meetings and preparations and birth children begin to feel what it will be like to share their parents.

This class discusses the challenges families face pre-placement, during placement, and post-placement and offers insights and advice for helping birth children through those challenges. The course touches on how fostering affects birth children in their late teens or early 20s who no longer live in the home full-time.

FosterParentCollege.com and SocialLearning.com have end-of-fiscal-year solutions for all your training needs.

FosterParentCollege.com (FPC) provides evidence-based, interactive, multimedia training for foster and adoptive parents at a modest price. All courses are available online, 24/7. We have several purchase options for agencies and invite agency staff to call us at 800-777-6636 to discuss your options. Visit www.FosterParentCollege.com to preview classes and learn more.

SocialLearning.com features over 1,200 products for the social services field, including most FPC courses on DVD. FPC DVDs are great for group trainings and for agency lending libraries. Discounts are offered when purchasing 5 or more FPC DVDs.