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:

• Conspicuous Families
• Let’s Talk Adoption
• The Journey of Attachment
• Finding the Missing Pieces
• Becoming Your Child’s Best Advocate
• Understanding the Adoption Tax Credit
• With Eyes Wide Open
• Becoming Your Child’s Best Advocate: Help for Adoptive Parents

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.  There is a one-year membership fee of $24 that is often reimbursable.  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

North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC)

This e-learning website includes recordings of trainings NACAC has held. Some are available for purchase and some are available at no cost.
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 NACAC 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/