Audience: Foster/adoptive parents, clinicians, supervisors, trainers, and administrators.
Cost: Costs are negotiable
Length: Half-day, one day
Content:
Module 1: A Clinical Overview of Transracial/Transcultural Issues in Adoption and Foster Care. The training topics in this module include:

• Identifying the special needs of children in transracial/transcultural foster care or adoptions
• Developing positive racial and cultural identity
• The impact of transracial/transcultural placement and adoption on the child and foster/adoptive family
• Audience: Foster/adoptive parents, clinicians, supervisors, trainers, and administrators) parenting tasks in adoption or foster placement
• Assessing a family's ability to foster/adopt transracially or transculturally.

Module 2: A Clinical Overview of Kinship Care. The training topics in this module include:

• The impact of kinship care on relative caregivers, birth parents, and child in kinship care
• Intervening with kinship families
• Caregiver and birth parent tasks in kinship families
• Similarities and differences in relative and non-relative placements and adoptions
• assessing a family's ability to provide kinship care.