"Foster Care to Adoption" Released on FosterParentCollege.com®

EUGENE, Ore. - April 29, 2013 - PRLog -- Most children in foster care eventually return to live with their birth families. When reunification is not an option, a child may enter long term foster care, kinship care, or be adopted. Adoption is surrounded by myths and expectations that can be problematic for adoptive families and the child being adopted.

Foster Care to Adoption explores the foster care to adoption process and offers insight and suggestions to make this transition easier for everyone involved.

This course is taught by Betsy Keefer Smalley, LSW, Director of Foster Care and Adoption Training, Institute for Human Services (IHS), Columbus, Ohio.

The class is part of a series developed as online versions of the Ohio Institute for Human Services standardized pre-service training curriculum in use throughout the United States. The project is funded through a Phase II SBIR grant (#2 R44 HD054032-02) awarded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development.

FosterParentCollege.com® provides interactive online training for foster, adoptive, and kinship parents. There are 43 self-paced courses available at this time. Titles include Substance-Exposed Infants, Child Abuse and Neglect, Caring for Children Who Have Been Sexually Abused, Culturally Competent Parenting, and The Foster Home Investigation Process.

FosterParentCollege.com® is:

·         Rated by the California Evidence-based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare

·         Endorsed by the NFPA, the Foster Family-based Treatment Association and the Canadian Foster Family Association

·         Approved by CASA and the National Adoption Center

For more information about this article, contact Lisa Siegle at press@northwestmedia.com. o view a preview for this course, visit www.fosterparentcollege.com