NFAPA In-Person In-Service Training: Helping You Support a Child You Are Fostering or Adopting : NFAPA Calendar : News & Publications : Nebraska Foster and Adoptive Parent Association

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Helping You Support a Child You Are Fostering or Adopting
April 22, 2023, 9:00-4:00 pm You will have a break for lunch.

Child Development: build a basic foundation for understanding child development, so you can better
understand and meet the child’s needs.

Attachment: discuss strategies to help you build your toolkit to enhance your relationship with the child you foster or adopt.

Separation, Grief & Loss: tools and skills to help the child communicate and understand their loss and grief.

Effective Communication: tools you can use to make your communications more effective, particularly during sensitive conversations with the child you are fostering or have adopted.

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Resource Family Consultants

Our staff includes Resource Family Consultants who specialize in one-on-one relationships, which provide foster parents with emotional encouragement, skill reinforcement, and parenting strategies unique to providing out-of-home care.

Scholarships

The Nebraska Foster & Adoptive Parent Association (NFAPA) offers scholarships to adoptive, foster, guardianship or kinship youth who wish to further their education beyond high school or GED.

Become a Foster Parent

There is an ongoing need in Nebraska for families willing to share their hearts and their homes with children who require temporary foster care. There is also a need for “forever” families for our waiting children, especially teens, who are available for adoption.