Nebraska Foster and Adoptive Parent Association

Join the Nebraska Foster & Adoptive Parent Association….your support will enable NFAPA to continue supporting foster parents statewide!

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The Spaulding program is offered to prospective adoptive families and you will earn 12 CEU’s by completing the training. Spaulding training offers families the tools and information that they need to: • Explain how adoptive families are different • Importance of separation, loss, and grief in adoption • Understand attachment and its importance in adoption • Anticipate challenges and be able to identify strategies for managing challenges as an adoptive family • Explore the lifelong commitment to a child that adoption brings

Nebraska has recently updated its child passenger restraint law. Follow the link to make sure you are up to date with the new regulations.

Relatives and friends are the most natural resources there are to help and support bio-parents and children in need of out-of-home care. DHHS finds and contacts relatives and other people with close connections to the family when a child enters state custody. These caregivers need to meet the educational, emotional, behavioral and developmental needs of the children and youth that come into their home.