E-Learning

The NJ ARCH E-Learning Page is designed to keep you informed about various educational and learning courses about adoption issues that are available online.

Below is a list of online educational services with direct URL links.  This page will be updated regularly; so please feel free to visit often and find out about any new courses that become available.

ALP offers an array of interactive, e-learning courses that are designed to increase the understanding, joys and challenges of adoption.  Throughout the site, they offer downloads of articles and papers and e-learning courses for prospective adoptive parents, adoptive parents as well as professionals.  To view their list of e-learning courses, log onto:  www.adoptionlearningpartners.org , and select “Catalog” at the top right.

Available courses range from 45 minutes to 2.5 hours to complete. Courses do not need to be completed in one session. Some courses are available free of charge; others that provide certifications require a small fee.  All other courses will have an enrollment fee that will include the issue of a Certificate of Completion with fees ranging from $30 to $45 per course if enrolled in individually.

Sample of courses include:

 Adopted The Identity Project: Real People, Real Stories, Real Insight For Parents
Adoption Tax Credit
Becoming Child’s Best Advocate
Braids, Curls, Twists: A How – To for Natural Black Hair Care
China: Her Land & People, History, and Philosophies
China: Language
China: Language, Festivals, and Traditions
China: Overview of the Adoption Process
Conspicuous Families
Creating an Adoption Profile that Works
Discipline and the Adopted Child Ain’t Misbehavin’
Finding the Missing Pieces
Foster Family to Forever Family
Let’s Talk Adoption
Lifebooks
Medical Issue in International AdoptionOpen
Adoption 101: What to Consider, How to Establish, And Ways To Stay Connected
The Journey of Attachment
The Republic of Korea: History and Culture
Tough Starts: Brain Development Matters
Tough Starts: Family Matters
Tough Starts: Parenting Matters
Tough Starts: Treatment Matters
We’re Home! Now What For Parents of Newly Adopted School-Aged Children
We’re Home! Now What? For Parents of Newly Adopted Toddlers / Preschoolers
With Eyes Wide Open

For more information, please log onto: www.adoptionlearningpartners.org

This online course offers complete training (except for hands-on certification and CPR) for future foster and adoptive parents. A Single One-year Membership ($19.99) includes access to over 300 hours of training for re-licensing. This membership is for one licensed foster parent. A Couple Membership for two licensed foster parents is $29.99.   Go to www.fosterparenttraining.com for more information.

Since 1998 Heart of the Matter Seminars has been providing engaging, informative and empowering educational experiences with a focus on children who are at-risk.  To view their courseware, log onto:

https://www.heartofthemattereducation.com/

Adoptive Families provides information and support through expert articles.  Personal stories, expert audio, in-depth eBooks, made-for-sharing Clip & Save tip sheets, parent-to-parent interaction, and more.  To view their website, log onto:

www.adoptivefamilies.com

Families Rising

Families Rising | Formerly North American Council on Adoptable Children

Learn how to navigate adoption, foster care, and kinship care! Discover our extensive library of recorded training sessions for professionals and caregivers, covering crucial topics in child welfare. Trainings include topics on: Parenting, Adoption Assistance, Adoption Practice, Adoption Tax Credit, Advocacy, Model Programs, Parent Group Development, Post-Adoption Services, Youth Advocacy and Support Networks,
For recorded webinars available for purchase ($15 for members / $20 for nonmembers), you’ll complete a payment form before you can access the session. For these paid webinars, you can receive a certificate of attendance after viewing the session.

https://www.nacac.org/get-training/recorded-trainings/

Foster Parent College

FosterParentCollege.com® (FPC) provides innovative, research-based, interactive online courses for foster, adoptive, and kinship parents. Our self-paced training is accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. From the comfort of home, parents can enroll, complete a course, and receive a certificate of completion in a single session. The content is developed by nationally recognized experts in the fields of parenting, social work, pediatrics, psychology, psychiatry, and education. FPC courses are valued by foster care agencies and praised by caregivers.

https://www.fosterparentcollege.com/index.jsp

The National Center on the Sexual Behavior of Youth – NCSBY

The National Center on the Sexual Behavior of Youth (http://www.ncsby.org/) is pleased to share information for an advanced workshop on problematic sexual behavior designed for foster, adoptive, and kinship parents entitled:
Addressing Youth And Children With Problematic Sexual Behaviors: Resources for CACs, Partners, and Caregivers
This is a six-credit hour course designed specifically for foster, adoptive and kinship parents. It uses discussion board activities and interactive exercises to help participants explore strategies for parenting children who have exhibited sexual behavior problems. See below website for cost and details.

To Preview or enroll in the FosterParentCollege.com Training Course
https://www.fosterparentcollege.com/course-info/sex-dev

Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) E-Learning

Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) partners with Relias to provide easy access to a broad range of continuing education and professional development online courses for child welfare and human service workers, clinicians, supervisors, and managers at a 10% discount for our members. And now you can learn anytime, anywhere with Relias’ new mobile app.
Relias also offers a comprehensive online training and management system for organizations to provide on-demand access to all courses for their entire staff with monitoring and reporting capabilities.
Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) offers a series of online courses on topics of particular interest to social workers, supervisors, and others who work with children who have experienced trauma.

https://www.cwla.org/conferences-events/e-learning/

Pre-Adoptive Education

Providing Foundations for Parenting Children from Hard Places
In this foundational phase of ‘Families Are Forever’ you’ll begin to understand the lives of children who come from a place most likely very different from your own. You’ll gain knowledge that many who have gone before you have discovered about welcoming a child from a ‘hard place’ into your home and family. We’ll also strengthen your family’s foundation so that as a parent, you have the tools and knowledge needed to best meet your child’s needs.

This phase totals 18 hours and satisfies Hague pre-adoptive training requirements.

https://familiesareforever.org/all-classes/

Create a Family: The National Adoption & Foster Care Education and Support Nonprofit

https://www.adoptioned.org/

The online learning platform is designed to satisfy pre-adoption home study requirements for families adopting domestically or internationally. There is also coursework available to support families post-adoption. Each one hour course is followed by a 10-question quiz. Scores of 80% or higher on the quiz entitle the learner to a Certificate of Completion.

For more information visit: https://www.adoptioned.org/pages/adoption-courses

Stockton University: Continuing Education Credit Hours for Social Workers, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, and Licensed Professional Counselors in New Jersey for licensure and certification renewal.

– Livestream workshops

– Each workshop yields 2.0 CE Hours

– Workshops feature relevant topics and current research from Stockton’s expert faculty members

– Special discounts are available to Stockton Alumni, Faculty and Staff

– Easy registration system at https://stockton.edu/admissions/costs.html

For more information visit : https://stockton.edu/continuing-studies/professional-development.html

Please logon to
https://training.ccfam.com/
Where you will find other trainings and classes

Since 1996, Harmony Family Center has been a leader, creator, and provider of innovative practices designed to strengthen the well-being of our nation’s children and families. For a list of their E Learning classes, please visit: https://www.harmonyfamilycenter.org/training-calendar-registration

Embrella Embracing & Empowering Families – embrella offers resource (foster) and kinship caregiver training. This training is available to all NJ licensed foster and kinship parents through their contract with the New Jersey Department of Children and Families (DCF). Numerous courses in various modalities are available to meet caregivers’ needs when completing education to meet their licensing requirements. For courses and modalities available, please visit https://www.embrella.org/free-foster-adoptive-kinship-parent-training-nj/. If interested in virtual learning, please visit our E-Learning Education Portal at www.teachingfamilies.org.

Advancing Practice for Permanency & Well-Being!
Options for Individuals & Organizations
Whether you are a Child Welfare or Mental Health professional, or an administrator in an organization, you can choose your preferred way to access the free web-based NTI training. Administrators are encouraged to explore integration options, if needed, so your team can successfully make NTI trainings available to staff and others with the desired data, reporting, tracking and support options. For more information, log onto https://adoptionsupport.org/nti/

De-escalation Series: Helping Children Learn a Lesson After a Crises Without Using Punishment
Presented By: Keith A Bailey, MS, PhD

Join this e-learning course series by Dr. Keith Bailey. Cost is $15/webinar ($40 for the series) and includes recordings. Sessions starts Tue, Jun 24, 2025 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
For more information, visit; training@harmonyfamilycenter.org

One goal of therapeutic crisis support is to help children learn from what just happened. We will briefly review the Life Space Interview as a structured way to talk about what happened, what the adult and child can do next time to prevent the crisis, and how the child can develop coping and communication strategies to use the next time a crisis is building. We will also explore how natural and logical consequences can be used to help children connect how actions impact others, in both negative and positive ways – with learning and restoration as the goal.

Combine videos and discussion guides to learn how and why kinship caregivers foster and adopt relative children and how to better support them. Some classes offer Continuing Education Units (CEU’s). For more information visit: https://acl.gov/CaregiverStrategy

The webinars will teach you about adopting and parenting children with identified needs, cover different parenting strategies, discuss adoptee perspectives, and/or address different concerns surrounding culture and adoption. These webinars should be useful for many people, including prospective adoptive/foster families, adoptive/foster families, and child welfare professionals. For information visit: https://chlss.org/education-events/webinars/

Multiracial, transracial adoptive and foster families lack the know-how to care for their kid’s textured hair. Support for both parents and kids is much needed.  Families are supported through Styles 4 Kidz programs, workshops and training—
giving them the tools and resources they need to care for their kid’s hair.
To view their trainings, visit https://styles4kidz.org/

Browse our courses on a variety of topics curated just for Foster, Adoptive and Kinship Resource Parents. On-demand so you can learn anytime, anywhere.

To view their trainings, visit https://nfpati.org/all-courses/