NFAPA Newsletter July-August 2024
Overcoming Nightmares and Creating Sleep, NFAPA Staff/Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents!, Effective Parenting: Embrace Discipline Over Punishment, In-Service Training, Anxious Stomach Aches and Headaches, When Kids Refuse to Go to School, What Happened When a Stranger Messaged My Tween's Phone, NFAPA Support Groups, 6 Tips That Will Help You Deal With Teenage Disrespect, Hair Shouldn't Be An Obstacle in Foster Parenting.
NFAPA Newsletter May-June2024
Key Strategies to Teach Children Empathy (Sorted by Age), NFAPA Staff/Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents!, In-Service Training, Setting Boundaries with Love: 3 Tips for Managing Challenging Teen Behavior, Why Your Teen is Lying to You and How to Handle It, NFAPA Support Groups, Proclamation, Spaulding: Making the Commitment to Adoption Training.
NFAPA Newsletter March-April 2024
How to Protect Your Teen’s Self-Esteem When Life Pushes Them Down, NFAPA Staff / Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents!, 10 Tips to Help Your Teen Boy Express His Emotions, Easy Tips to Help Reduce the Drama with Your Teen Daughter Starting Today, In-Service Training, Punishment vs. Consequences: Why One Works Better for Teens, Sass, Sighs, and Slamming Doors: Proven Ways to Defuse Your Teen’s Moody Outbursts, How to Support LGBTQ Children, NFAPA Support Groups, Generational Foster Care in Native American Communities, When Kids Won’t Cooperate: Give Choices, Spaulding: Making The Commitment to Adoption Training.
NFAPA Newsletter January-February 2024
The Power of Positive Attention, NFAPA Staff/Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents!, 18 Things Your Teen Isn't Telling You, ow to Help Kids worried About 'Bad Thoughts', Talking to Kids About Death, Tragedy, and Loss, In-Service Training, 8 Ways to De-Escalate Meltdowns with Your Child, NFAPA Support Groups, When Parents Disagree on Discipline: 9 Steps to Harmonious Parenting, NFAPA Scholarship, Spaulding: Making the Commitment to Adoption Training.
NFAPA Newsletter September-October 2023
How Foster Parents Can Support Reunification, NFAPA Staff/Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents!, One Simple Question That Will Reset Your Kid's Bad Mood, Parenting Teens Means Learning to Love Hard When They're Hard To Love, How To Deal With Lying in Children and Teens, In-Service Training, How to Help Your Child Get Motivated in School, How Trauma Affects Kids in School, NFAPA Support Groups, Wat Is Oppositional Defiant Disorder?, Spaulding: Making the Commitment to Adoption Training
NFAPA Newsletter July-August 2023
10 Things You Should Know Before Your Teen Starts High School, NFAPA Staff / Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents!, Self-Sabotage as a Trauma Response in Children and How to Stop It, Anxiety At School: When Talking and Doing Feels Too Big, How To Talk To Kids About School Shootings, Mindfulness In The Classroom, The BEST Conversations Always Seem To Happen In The Car, NFAPA Support Groups, What It Feels Like To Be A Nurturing Enemy To A Child With Reactive When Children Grieve: 7 Strategies To Help Them Cope, Spaulding: Making The Commitment to Adoption Training.
NFAPA Newsletter May-June 2023
Parenting In A Diverse World, NFAPA Staff / Board of Directors,, Attention Foster Parents!, The Difference Between Praise and Encouragement in Parenting and Why It Matters, What’s Wrong with Helicopter Parenting, Helping Kids Who Are Immature, NFAPA Workshops, Why do Kids Whine? 3 Steps to Make It Stop, What It Feels Like To Be A Nurturing Enemy To A Child With Reactive Attachment Disorder, Support Groups, Why Your Teen Is Lying To You And How To Handle It, “I Am A Foster Child” Poem, What It’s Like Growing Up With Alcoholic Parents, Foster Parent Survey.
NFAPA Newsletter March-April 2023
How to Empower Your Child to Deal with School Anxiety, NFAPA Staff/Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents!, How to Know if Your Child is Being Bullied, NFAPA Workshops, LB-1173, Our Teens are Really Struggling with Social Media Right Now, Here is How to Help, Support Groups, How to Steer Teens Away from Negative Behaviors, As a Parent of Teens, We Must Understand What Self-Harm Looks Like, 10 Ways to Teach Children to Speak Up About Sexual Abuse, Why Do Kids Have Tantrums and Meltdowns?, April is Social Work Month, Scholarship Program.
NFAPA Newsletter January-February 2023
How can you waste the best years of your life fostering children?, People questioned if I'd find a husband: 'Single foster mom says' these children are worth it, NFAPA Staff/Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents!, Fostering Siblings Bonding: How to Set Them Up for Success, ‘She buries her head sobbing, pleading, ‘Don’t let me go.’: Mom explains true meaning of fostering children.’, NFAPA Workshops, Be a Safe Space for Your Teens, The First Step to Manage Stress, NFAPA Support Groups, Modeling Boundaries for Your Teens, Three Self-Care Tips for Parents, “Making the Commitment Adoption” In-Service Training, Is it ADHD or Trauma?
NFAPA Newsletter November-December 2022
The Holidays in Foster Care: Why Things Might Get Rough, NFAPA Staff / Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents!, Thanksgiving with Your Foster Child, Being in Foster Care During the Holidays, NFAPA Workshops, Celebrating the Holidays in Foster Care, Ways to Celebrate the New Year as a Adoptive/Foster Family, What DO You Share At School About Your Child’s Story?, NFAPA Support Groups, Adoption and Foster Care are Complicated—Here’s 8 Things Everyone Should Know, “Making the Commitment Adoption” In-Service Training, Kids who are melting down over the holidays, National Adoption Day: It’s not about a holiday; it’s about people.
NFAPA Newsletter September-October 2022
12 Things to Teach Kids About Navigating School, NFAPA Staff/Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents, Help! My Child Hates School, Note from DHHS, How To Recognize and Deal with Generational Trauma, Advocating For Your Foster or Kinship Child At School, What Do You Share At School About Your Child's Story?, Support Groups, Should I let My Child Fail? 5 Tips To Help Kids Face Failure, Foster Youth Internship Program, Letter From The Editor, NFAPA Workshops.
NFAPA Newsletter July-August 2022
Why Kids Fall Apart After School and How to Help, NFAPA Staff / Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents!, Foster Care, Special Edition, and Learning and Thinking Differences: What You Need to Know, How to Respond to Your Childs Friendship Problems, Why is My Teen Crying All the Time?, NFAPA Support Groups, How to Spot Signs of Anxiety in Children, "Don't Worry, Little Man", NFAPA Virtual Workshops, Foster Parents Need to be Trained to be Loving and Welcoming to Youth of All Genders and Sexualities, NFAPA In-Person Workshops.
NFAPA Newsletter May-June 2022
Emotional Coach for Your Child, NFAPA Staff / Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents!, Growing Up with Two Emotionally Unavailable Parents, 4 Effective Ways to Break The Generational Cycle of Yelling, It's Science,. Dropping Negative Language Improves Child Behavior, The Long Shadow of Childhood Trauma, How Using Social Media Affect Teenagers, NFAPA Support Groups, Ignoring Your Adopted Child's Questions Doesn't Preserve Their Innocents, "Making the Commitment o Adoption" In-Service, National Foster Care Month.
NFAPA Newsletter March-April 2022
How Can We help Kids with Transitions, NFAPA Staff / Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents!, 5 Ways to Discipline, The Importance of An Apology to a Child, Making Rules Teens Will Follow, NFAPA Support Groups, Preparing Teens to Seek Professional Help, Fight, Flight, Freeze, Foster Care Closet, Grandparent Raising Grandchildren, Why I Changes My Mind About Adopting Teens, Camp Catch-up, Increasing Cooperation in Kids with Autism, Scholarship Program.
NFAPA Newsletter January-February 2022
Respect, Don't Judge, Be Flexible, NFAPA Staff / Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents!, Supporting Birth Parents as a Foster Parent, What is Emotional Abuse?, What Happens When Hyperactivity is Trapped Inside, NFAPA Support Groups, Making the Commitment to Adoption In-Service Training, NFAPA In-Service Trainings, 8 Common Signs Your Teen is Struggling with Their Mental Health (&Some Not-So-Common), Facebook Doesn't Care About Your Kids: What Parents Can Do, Extracurricular Activities: Benefits and Balance.
NFAPA Newsletter November-December 2021
Celebrating the Holidays with Foster Youth, NFAPA Staff / Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents!, Celebrating the Holidays with Hopeful Adoptive Families, In-Service Training, Advice to Parents Adopting a Child of Another Race, Preparing to Blend Kids by Birth and Adoptive or Foster, NFAPA Support Group / Part-time Job, Be the Light, November is Adoptive Awareness Month, Holidays During the Pandemic, The Holidays-An Opportunity for Loving Healing, Foster Care and the Holidays, Info on Children's Hospital Systems, Guardian Tool-Statewide Survey Launch.
NFAPA Newsletter September-October 2021
How Will Understanding My Child's Trauma Help Me As A Parent, NFAPA Staff / Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents!, How To Help Kids Who Are Lonely, Foster Parent In Service, The Added Trauma Of Raising A Traumatized Child: When Everyone Is Against You, Stressed Out: Helping Your Teen Cope With School Pressure, NFAPA Support Group / Part-time Job, Sept. Kinship Month, Spaulding: Making The Commitment To Adoption, 8 No-War Ways To Get Your Teen Out Of Bed For School , Mood Disorders & Teenage Girls, Self-Care For Adoptive, Foster, and Kinship Parents, NAAA Fall Zoom Conference, Meet Andrew
NFAPA Newsletter July-August 2021
How To Make A Foster Child's First Day At School A Good One, NFAPA Staff / Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents, Going Back To School With Kids In Foster Care, When Kids Refuse To Go Back To School, The Ultimate Back To School Checklist, Tips For Helping Teens In Foster Care With Homework, Secret Weapon For School Success, Ten Ways To Help Your Child Make Friends, Back To School Tips For Kids Who Are Struggling, How Much Should You Tell Teachers About Your Child's Trauma?, How Does Anxiety Affect Kids In School?, Helping Your Foster Child Make The Grade In A New School , It's Important To Take Foster Kids On Vacation, Affordable Extracurricular Activities For Your Foster Child, In Service Trainings, Join NFAPA
NFAPA Newsletter May-June 2021
Foster Care Has Changed How We Parent, NFAPA Staff/Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents, Events for May is Foster Care Month, This is the Part of Special Needs No One Talks About, Help for Cutting & Self Injury, Childhood Trauma is not a Mental Illness, Free Virtual In-service Training, Foster Chat, NFAPA Support Groups, What I Learned From My Mother About Adopting A Teen, Diary of A Former Foster Child, Why Kids Lie, History of Foster Care in the United States, Healthy Relationships Between Foster Parents and Biological Parents of Children in Care, Proclamation, Sharing our Calmness, Join NFAPA
NFAPA Newsletter March/April 2021
Diary of a Former Foster Child, NFAPA Staff/Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents, How to Parent a Child Who Can't Recognize Boundaries, Speak to a Birth Mom Guide, Foster Chat, Survey Monkey Winners 2020, NFAPA Support Groups, Free Virtual In-Service Trainings, Making the Commitment to Adoption, Camp Catch-up, From the Health & Human Service -Foster Care RD Corner, How to Help Kids Deal with Rejection, Why Disability Representation in Toys is so Important, The Power of Positive Attention, How to Help Kids Learn To Fail, What Should I do if I Feel Afraid of My Childs's Biological Family?, NFAPA Job & Board Openings, Join NFAPA Note: there has been a change for an in-service training originally scheduled for June 5 and has been moved to June 12. The printed version of this newsletter has the old date. This on line version has the correct information.
NFAPA Newsletter January/February 2021
How Can I Be A Good Respite Care Provider?, NFAPA Staff/Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents, How Anxiety Leads to Disruptive Behavior, Understanding and Coping With Reactive Attachment Disorder, How to Help An Impulsive Child Think Long-Term, NFAPA Support Groups, Waiting For A Forever Home, Foster Chat, NFAPA Scholarship, NFAPA In-Service Training, Making the Commitment to Adoption, Angry Kids: Dealing with Explosive Behavior, Parenting Difficult Behaviors/Keeping Your Cool in The Community, Can Children Experience Adoption Trauma?, Join NFAPA.
NFAPA Newsletter November/December 2020
Christmas , Chaos, and Children in Foster Care, NFAPA Staff/Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents, No Longer Fostering? We Would Love to Hear From you, 3 Ways The Foster Care System Can Emerge Stronger After the Coronavirus Pandemic, How Hard Is It To Adopt From Foster Care?, NFAPA Support Groups, Foster Care Closet of Nebraska, Ambassadors of Kindness, Thanksgiving, Caring for Children In Foster Care During COVID-19, Foster Talk With HEather & Megan #& Foster Care and The Holidays, Foster Care & The Holidays, Foster Care Adoptions Reach Record High, Join NFAPA.
NFAPA Newsletter September/October 2020
How to Help Children Calm Down, NFAPA Staff/Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents, More Youth are Dying of Suicide, Overdose than COVID-19 During Pandemic COC Director, Life After Foster Care Reunification 7th Edition, Pediatrician and Mom Says This is What Your Teens Can Expect at School This Fall, NFAPA Support Groups, Spaulding/In-service Training, NFAPA In-Service Training, Why Do Kids Have Trouble with Transitions, What Parents Need to Know About Kids' Meltdowns, Why Traditional Parenting Methods Wont Work with Children Who Have Experienced Trauma, How to Help Kids Who Are Too Hard On Themselves, No Longer Fostering? Would Love to Hear from You, Join NFAPA.
NFAPA Newsletter July/August 2020
How Can I Empower Children With Two Families To Embrace Their Own Identity?, NFAPA Staff/Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents, People Don't Outgrow The Effects Of Childhood Trauma Just Because They Become Adults, Healing From Childhood Trauma: It's Not Impossible. It's Just Hard, NFAPA In-Service Training, Letter From The Editor, NFAPA Support Groups, No Longer Fostering? We Would Love To Hear From You, School Discipline Is Trauma-Insensitive And Trauma-Uninformed, How Can I Help My Child Process The Hard Parts Of Their Story?, What Happens To My Girl When Society Realizes It's Not 'Cut" Anymore? How Do I Make People See The Beauty I See?: Mom To daughter With Autism Urges Us To Challenge Our Idea OF Beauty, My Teens Aren't Socializing The Way They Did And I'm Concerned, Join NFAPA.
NFAPA Newsletter May/June 2020
Talking to Kids About the Cornavirus, NFAPA Staff/Board of Directors, Note from Editor, Attention Foster Parents, 7 Tips for Self-Care: A Mind-Body-Spirit Approach to De-Stress, CDC Reveals Teenage Suicide has Increased 76 Percent in Last Decade, Self-Care in the Time of Coronavirus, NFAPA In-Service Training, May is National Foster Care Month, NFAPA Support Groups, How Mindfulness Can Help During COVID-19, Anxiety and Coping with the Coronavirus, Co-Parenting gets Children Home from Foster Care Safer and Faster, Coronavirus and Foster Care: How Foster Families and Child Welfare are Struggling During the Pandemic, COVID-19 and At Home Learning, Join NFAPA
NFAPA Newsletter March/April 2020
Never Punish A Child For Bad Behavior Outside Their Control, NFAPA Staff/Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents, Punishments, Time Outs, and Rewards: Why Conditional Parenting Doesn't Work, Waiting for a Forever Home, Counting Foster Children in the 2020 Census, NFAPA In-service Training (Note date change for Grand Island), Camp Catch-up, Why Social Media Is Not Smart for Middle School Kids, "Do I have To Leave Now?": Our Foster Care System Makes IT Too Easy To Give Up On Kids, The Burnout That Special Needs Parent Experience, Should I talk To My Child About Their Past Trauma?, No Longer Fostering? We Would Love To Hear From You, NFAPA Support Groups, Join NFAPA
NFAPA Newsletter January/February 2020
Calm Voice,Calmer Kids, NFAPA Staff/Board of Directors, Survey Monkey Winners, Attention Foster Parents, Childhood Trauma: Understanding Behavioral Challenges As Survival Instincts, Barren to Blessed, Is My Child's Behavior Or My Ego Causing The Crisis?, The Burnout That Special Needs Parents Experience, What To Do If Your Teen Is Lying To You Or Stealing, Waiting for a Forever HOME, No Longer Fostering?, Making the Commitment to Adoption, NFAPA Scholarship, How Anxiety Leads to Disruptive Behavior, Researchers Reveal Kids Who Get More Hugs Have More Developed Brains, Tips For Calming Anxious Kids, NFAPA Support Groups, Join NFAPA
NFAPA Newsletter November/December 2019
9 Ways to Celebrate National Adoption Awareness Month, NFAPA Staff/Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents, The Role Of Emotion Co-Regulation in Discipline, Stop Withholding Gifts From Your Foster Kids, The Holiday in Foster Care: Why Things Might Get Rough, Upcoming Training, No Longer Fostering?, Waiting for a Forever HOME, National Adoption Month, Thanksgiving Tips For Foster Parents, 100 Everyday Ways to Strengthen Your Child's Mental Health, Parenting Kids Who Sabotage the Holidays, An Attitude of Gratitude in Foster Parenting This Thanksgiving, What Adoption Is When You Parent Kids From Hard Place, What I've Learned Since Becoming A Court Appointed Special Advocate, NFAPA Support Groups, Join NFAPA
NFAPA Newsletter September/October 2019
Children Glued to Screens Show Alarming Developmental Delays, NFAPA Staff/Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents, Anxiety or Aggression? When Anxiety in Children Looks Like Anger, Tantrums, or Meltdowns, Don't Panic: Your Kid's "Bad" Behavior in Probably Normal!, A Note From the Department, Upcoming Training, No Longer Fostering?, Waiting for a Forever Home!, Foster Parents Survey, Making the Commitment to Adoption, Working with Parents, Is it Ever Okay to Leave the Toxic Relationship f Family or Friends, Long-Term Issues for the Adopted Child, The Behavior Isn't Manipulation, It's Survival, What is A.C.E.S. and Why Does it Matter?, NFAPA Support Groups, Join NFAPA
NFAPA Newsletter July/August 2019
Why I can No Longer Bubble Wrap M Child, NFAPA Staff/Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents, Childhood Trauma: How the Child's View of Their Own "Badness" is Perpetuated, Five Things to Know About the "Fear of Getting Too Attached", Why We're Not Sending Our Child To Residential Treatment Again, How to Make Your Child In Foster Care Feel Normal, No Longer Fostering? Irregular Bedtime Have A Huge Impact on Kid's Behavior Development, Upcoming Training, Foster Parent In-Service Training Scottsbluff, Upcoming In-Service Training North Platte, That First Night In Foster Care, What to Expect When You're Expecting: Foster Care Style, What You Don't Know About Children in Foster Care, The Effects of Childhood Trauma On Ability To Feel Empathy, Rate Change, The Support You MUST Have As A Foster Parent, Waiting For A Forever Home!, NFAPA Support Groups, Join NFAPA
NFAPA Newsletter May/June 2019
How to be Friends with a Foster Mom, NFAPA Staff/Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents, Back + Forth Journal: Building a Relationship with Biological Parents, Forgotten Friday/ Letting Go, How to Help your Children Advocate for Themselves, No Longer Fostering?, The Real Costs and Reimbursements of Foster Care, Thank You to NewsLink, Parenting After Trauma: Understanding Your Child's Needs, Thank you Foster Parent! You Are Appreciated!, This Mother's Day Description of Her Tween Son's Brain is a Must Read for All Parents, Nebraska Friends of Foster Children Can Help Your Child in Foster Care Lead a Normal Life, What You Need to Consider Before Sending your Child with Developmental Trauma Disorder, Upcoming Training, NFAPA Scholarship, May is National Foster Care Month, NFAPA Support Groups, Join NFAPA
NFAPA Newsletter March/April 2019
Reasons Today's Kids Are Bored, NFAPA Staff/Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents, Foster Parent Retention: Death of a Foster Mo, Foster Kids Should Never Have to "Appreciate What You're Doing for Them", What Do You Do When You Feel Like The Worst Parent In The World?, I Miss My Other Daddy, Child's Vulnerable Admission, No Longer Fostering?, Royal Family Kids Camp, Foster Care Month, Camp Catch-up, Helen Stone Memorial Scholarship, The Disorder That Affects Us All, Developmental Trauma Disorder, 5 Lessons AN Adoptive Mom of a Child with Developmental Trauma Disorder Wishes She Learned Earlier, A Mother's Single (and Resolution) Through the Various Diagnoses of Trauma, Upcoming Training, NFAPA Scholarship, NFAPA Support Groups, Join NFAPA
NFAPA Newsletter January/February 2019
Dark Enough: When Adoptive Families Struggle, NFAPA Staff/Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents, Foster Parent Retention: What are the Foster Parents Saying?, 5 Things most Parents of Kids without RAD take for Granted, NE Child Safety Restraint, Waiting for a Forever Home, Membership Drive, Hot to Parent a child with Food Insecurities, Foster Youth Rights, Keeper of the Spoons, Taking a Child to the Emergency Room, NFAPA Support Groups, How Gratitude Can Help you Better Care for You, Upcoming Kinship Training, Join NFAPA
NFAPA Newsletter November/December 2018
Share your Story: Holiday Traditions, NFAPA Staff/Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents, How Angry Adoptive Moms Are Changing the Game for Vulnerable Children and Youth in Foster Care, Why Self-Care is Essential to Parenting, Adviser Role, Waiting for a Forever Home, Hot Cocoa Bar. Membership Drive, What Foster Care Has taught my sons, Five Tips for Adoptive Parents Addressing Racial Incidents with Children, Indian Child Welfare Act Under Fire, 40-year-old law, Appeals could lead to Supreme Court, Foster Care and Adoption-No Ordinary Walk in the Valley, We are More than our Adoption, NFAPA Support Groups, No Longer Fostering? We Would Love to Hear from You, Upcoming Kinship Training, Join NFAPA
NFAPA Newsletter September/October 2018
How to Successfully Advocate for your Children, NFAPA Staff/Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents, For Low-Income Parents, Buying Junk Food for Kids is about more than just low prices, How foster Care Affects Children in Your Home, Top 8 Ways to Help Your Foster Child In School, No Longer Fostering?, Waiting for a Forever Home, 10 Thing you Need to Know about FASD, Governor o Proclaim September as Kinship Care Month, An Open Letter to Friends/Family of Those Raising Kids with Reactive Attachment Disorder, Parenting ADHD: 6 Things I wish I had Known, NFAPA Support Groups, The Trauma Informed Teacher, NE Child Safety Restraint Law, North Platte One Day Conference, McCook Workshop, Membership Drive, Upcoming Kinship Training, Join NFAPA
NFAPA Newsletter July/August 2018
Just for Foster Dads, NFAPA Staff/Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents, 5 Ways to Stop Taking Attachment Disorder Personally, An Open Letter to Friends/Family of Those Raising Kids with Reactive Attachment Disorder, No Longer Fostering?, Waiting for a Forever Home, Save the Date, Membership Drive, Foster Parent In-Service Training, Spaulding: Making th Commitment to Adoption, We Have to Stop Losing Half of Foster Parents in the First Year, My Parenting May Seem Strict, But I Have a Few Good Reasons For It, NFAPA Support Groups, Why Some Kids are Resilient And Others Aren't, Upcoming Training, Join NFAPA
NFAPA Newsletter May/June 2018
Counting The Costs of Fostering or Adopting, NFAPA Staff/Board of Directors, 3 Reasons Traditional Parenting Doesn't Work With Kids From Trauma, Challenges of Kinship Care: Talking About Bio Parents, Why This Mom Uses the Word "Rage" and Not "Tantrum", No Longer Fostering? We Would Love to Hear From You, NFAPA Support Groups, Waiting for a Forever HOME!, Holt Adoptee Camp, Membership Drive, National Foster Care Month, How to Help Someone Who Has a Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Civil Liability or Foster Care Misrepresentation Approved, When a Mom Struggles to Love Her Child and Other Secrets From Parents of Children with Reactive Attachment Disorder, To the Foster or Hopeful Adoptive Parent Considering a Trans-racial Placement-Guest, Upcoming Training, JOIN NFAPA
NFAPA Newsletter March/April 2018
5 Things Adoptive Parents Want Teachers To Know About Trauma, NFAPA Staff/Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents, How Parents of Kids with Reactive Attachment Disorder Get Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, 7 Phrases Not to Sa to a Foster Parent-And Why, How Children in Foster Care Fall Victim to Child Sex Trafficking, NFAPA Support Groups, Waiting for a Forever HOME!, Making the Commitment to Adoption, Camp Catch-up, Royal Family Kids Camp, NFAPA Scholarship, Is Your Child Prepared for Their First Cell Phone?, Girl Scouts-Spirit of NE, The Team Needs You!, 6 Ways to Deal with Rejection From Wounded Children, Human Trafficking Training, 10 Powerful Truths About FASD That Will Change Your Perspective, You Are Invited, Upcoming Training, Join NFAPA.
NFAPA Newsletter January/February 2018
10 New Year Resolutions for Foster Care, NFAPA Staff/Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents, Being a Foster Child Taught Me Love, What are the Steps to Family Reunification Plan within Foster Care, 5 Reasons the Most Common Response to Foster Parents is the Most Painful, Understanding Reactive Attachment Disorder, NFAPA Support Groups, Waiting for a Forever Home, Membership Drive, NFAPA Board Position Openings, Gone, IF you Give a Foster Family a Chicken Dinner, Tell your Foster Child you Love Them, Five Myths and Foster Care Adoption, Hard Things, No Longer Fostering, Upcoming Training, Join NFAPA
NFAPA Newsletter November/December 2017
Holidays with an Adopted Child, NFAPA Staff/Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents, A Letter to me Daughters on the Day of your Adoption, 3 Reasons not to Vilify my Kid's Birth Mother, 4 Things Every Child in Foster Care Needs this Christmas, How Developmental Trauma Affect the Whole Family (Also Known as Reactive Attachment Disorder), NFAPA Support Groups, Waiting for a Forever Home, NFAPA Board Openings, 43 Ways Everyone Can Celebrate National Adoption Month, Adopted Child Syndrome-Causes, Effects and Ways to Prevent It, No Longer Fostering, New NFAPA Board Members, Upcoming In-service Training, Join NFAPA
NFAPA Newsletter September/October 2017
Are You the Reason Children in Foster Care Are Failing School, NFAPA Staff/Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents, How to Respond to Your Child's Negative Self Talk, How to Prepare Your Child for School Bullies, Making Halloween Happier, Halloween for Foster Children, Foster Care Tip of the Month, Waiting for a Forever Home, I'm Not a Precious Mama, Residential Treatment, How Do You Process Your Child's Trauma, Upcoming In-service Training, Super Science Kids, NFAPA Board Openings, Allowing Kids to Embrace Big Emotions, No Longer Fostering, NFAPA Support Groups, Join NFAPA
NFAPA Newsletter July/August 2017
20 Parenting Tools that Connect & Correct, Indian Child Welfare Act, Take Me Out to the Ballgame, The Start of Hurricane Season, Membership Drive, Kits for Kids, Caregiver Information, Letter of Encouragement, NFAPA Staff/Board of Directors,Waiting for a Forever Home, Upcoming In-service Training, NFAPA Board Openings,No Longer Fostering, NFAPA Support Groups, Join NFAPA
NFAPA Newsletter May/June 2017
Caring For Yourself As You Care For Children in Foster Care, NFAPA Staff/Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents, NFAPA Support Groups, A Letter from the Director, Reactive Attachment Disorder in Teens, 5 Reasons Your Teen Isn't Like "All Other Teenagers", Helping Young People with Disabilities Successfully Transition to Adulthood, Give to Lincoln Day, When You Realize You Can't Fix RAD, No Longer Fostering?, Waiting for a FOREVER Home!, Proclamation Signing, Foster Care and Mother's Day, Making a Commitment to Adoption, Her name was Jesus Christ, Children, A Poem, 8 Things All Kids in Foster Care Want People to Know, The Kinship Connection, Join NFAPA
NFAPA Newsletter March/April 2017
20 Ways to Stand Up to Bullying, NFAPA Staff/Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents, Raising Responsible Digital Citizens, Legislative Update, NFAPA Support Groups, NFAPA Scholarship, Foster Parent Recognition, Growing Up in Foster Care, No Longer Fostering: Exit Survey, Waiting for a Forever Home, Girl Scouts of Nebraska, Nurtured Heart Approach, Court Appearances & the Importance of Documentation, Helping Your Child Reduce Self-Harming Behavior, Parenting a Child Who Has Experienced Abuse & Neglect, Parenting a Child Who Has Been Sexually Abused, Establishing Family Guidelines for Safety & Privacy, Sex Trafficking, Join NFAPA
NFAPA Newsletter January/February 2017
Five Myths About Foster Care Adoption, NFAPA Staff/Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents, Save the Date for Foster Parent Recognition, 10 Things Your Child's Therapist Wish You Knew, 49 Phrases to Calm an Anxious Child, NFAPA Scholarship, Waiting for a FOREVER Home, Former Foster Youth Donates, Do You Need Help Finding a State Employee Phone Number, Parenting Trauma, When Their Attachment Issues Trigger Your Own, When the Very Foundation of Being Human is Altered, Team Work in Foster Care, Making the Commitment to Adoption, NFAPA Support Groups, Join NFAPA
NFAPA Newsletter November/December 2016
A Time of Joy, A Time of Grief, NFAPA Staff/Board of Directors, Attention Foster Parents, National Adoption Month, What an Adoptee Wants You to Know About Adoption, Why Adoptive Families Don't Get Casseroles, NFAPA Membership Drive, Giving Tuesday, Waiting For A Forever Home, Hiser Family Adoption, King Family Adoption, Tuesday Night Online Support Group, Managing Holiday Stress, 8 Things to Consider When Approaching Difficult Adoption Topics, Avoiding the Holiday Hassle, NFAPA Board Openings, The Lifelong Affects of Trauma, NFAPA Support Groups, Join NFAPA
NFAPA Newsletter September/October 2016
Three Tips for New Foster Parents, NFAPA Staff/Board, Mandatory RPPS Training, NFAPA Support Groups, No Longer Fostering?, The Classroom, NFAPA Board Openings, What is ICWA?, Calls Home from School, Waiting for a Forever Home, Kit Coyote: A Brave Pup, Fun in Columbus, How to Deal with School Issues for Kids with RAD, Tuesday Night Chat Support Group, Avoiding Holiday Hassles, Abusive Head Trauma, Adverse Childhood Experiences, The Secret Language of Emojis, Join NFAPA
NFAPA Newsletter July/August 2016
If Foster Care is Hard, NFAPA Staff/Board, Columbus Picnic, FACES Online Support Group, Take Me Out to the Ballgame, Mandatory RPPS, 2016 Proclamation, NFAPA Support Groups, Foster Children and Online Technology, Caregiver Information Form, Parenting Forgetful Behavior, Waiting for a Forever Home, Climb the Canyons of Trauma, You Are Not Ready to Be a Foster Parent If, Preparing Your Child for the New School Year, North Platte Conference, Join NFAPA
NFAPA Newsletter May/June 2016
Bickering in the Backseat, May is National Foster Care Month, Why Kids Blame & Lash Out, Come Chat with Us, NFAPA Support Groups, Helping Your Foster Child During a Time of Questions, Trauma and Heartbreak, Etched in Sand, Four Words that Change the World, Waiting for A Forever Home, What Foster Care Means or Meant to Me?, How to Survive a Family Vacation, Blue Cloud Donates Duffel Bags to Foster Children, A Foster Care Journey, Fishing Permit, A Letter of Encouragement to Foster Mamas, The Balance Beam: Caring for Yourself while caring for Your Kids, 4 Reasons Parenting Trauma is Incredibly Difficult
NFAPA Newsletter March/April 2016
Should you Make Your Child Apologize, Nebraska FACES Tuesday Night Chat, Money for Foster Parents From Nebraska Friends of Foster Children, 90 Bucket List Ideas to keep your kids busy during Spring Break and Summer, Co-Parenting Across Cultures, NFAPA Scholarship, Caring for the Hair of Your African American Child, Coordinating, Culture and Care, Waiting for a forever Home!, National Foster Care Month Coming in May, 20 Ideas for Keeping Connections to Racial and Cultural Identity, Honoring Your Child's Racial and Cultural Identity, NFAPA Support Groups, Spaulding, Scottsbluff One Day Conference
NFAPA Newsletter January/February 2016
Dealing with Reunification Anxiety, Why is Reunification the Primary Permanency Goal?, Nebraska Faces Tuesday Night Chat, Understanding Power Struggles, Steps in Dealing with Child's Defiance, NFAPA Scholarship, Money for Foster Parents from Nebraska Friends of Foster Children, NFAPA Support Groups, 5 Ways Foster Youth will Benefit from the Every Student Succeeds Act, Waiting for a forever Home, Dear Foster Parent, Siblings are our First Friends: Camp Catch Up, Aha! Parenting Blog, How can Foster Parents and Birth Parents Successfully Co-Parent?, Spaulding
NFAPA Newsletter November/December 2015
The Joys and Challenges of Parenting Older Adopted Children, NFAPA Newsletter Survey Winners, National Adoption Month, Our Foster to Adoption Journey, Self Care for Foster Families During the Holidays, Exit Exam, Parenting Across the Color Lines- Pot Luck Dinner, Overcoming Parent Burnout, Waiting for a forever Home, A Letter from the Executive Director, Fall Fun, Celebrating Holidays with Children you Foster, Adoption from Foster Care- A Growing Family, A Letter to the Foster Care Youth, Right Turn, Encouraging and Supporting Tweens and Teens in Care, NFAPA Support Groups
NFAPA Newsletter September/October 2015
Bonding Assessment, A Fun Way To Teach Children to Control Emotions, NFAPA Upcoming In-Service Training's, The Adopted Child from Inside Out, Preventing Sex Trafficking and the Strengthening Families Act, We are Failing our Children, Waiting for a Forever Home, Tammy's Foster/Adoptive Parent Tidbits, Right Turn Class in Lincoln, Getting Behavior in Shape at Home, 5 Reasons I'm Not Quitting as a Foster Parent and Neither Should You, How Well do you Know Your Child, 504 Accommodating Checklist, New NFAPA Members.
NFAPA Newsletter July-August 2015
Attention Seeking Behavior, Insight from an Adult Foster Care Survivor, NFAPA support Groups, NFAPA staff opening, My Child has Bi-polar disorder, Chores, A letter from the executive director, Waiting Children, Attachment Issues and Reactive Attachment Disorder part 4, Helping Children Recover from Grief, Beyond Sexual Abuse: Families Can Promote Healing, Scholarship Winners, NFAPA Upcoming One Day Conferences.
NFAPA Newsletter May-June 2015
This newsletter features articles about the Autism spectrum, the importance of documentation, attachment issues and reactive attachment disorder, a letter from the new executive director, how to make bath time fun time, the 2015 proclamation, information on national foster care month, how to help build self-esteem, information on very young trauma survivors, helping children with dyslexia, and oppositional defiant disorder.
NFAPA Newsletter March-April 2015
This newsletter features articles about Reactive Attachment Disorder (part 2), The Value of foster & Adoptive Parent Support Groups, The Importance of House Rules and Safety Measures for Foster Children, Posting Photos on Social Media, Kinship Care, Foster Parenting Manual Tips, North Platte In-Service info, Lying, Is Time-Out the Best Method to Discipline Your Child, Food for Thought, How to Help your Foster Child in School, Support Group Info, Scholarships, and Parental Visits.
NFAPA Newsletter January-February 2015
This newsletter features articles about Autism/Asperger's, Child removals, Foster Parenting Manual Tips, Foster Parent Responsibilities, Code of Ethics for Foster Parents, 20 Quick Tips to Better Advocate, Learning to Listen, Attachment Issues and Reactive Attachment Disorder (part 1), Scholarships, Nurturing, Bonding and Letting Go, Support Group information and Waiting Children. There was a movie clip referenced in the Autism Article in this newsletter. Here is a link to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34xoYwLNpvw#
NFAPA Newsletter October-November 2014
This newsletter features articles about "Four Attachment Types to Know Before Becoming a Parent", "How can state law support school continuity and success for students in foster care", "Separation Anxiety", "Education & Training Voucher Program", "Laughter & Kids", "Preparation, Transition & Independent Living Services", "Job Corps Opportunity", "If Not Me Then...Who?", "Foster Parenting Manual Tips for Television Viewing", "Reactive Attachment Disorders" and "6 Struggles Every Foster Parent Faces".
NFAPA Newsletter August-September 2014
This newsletter features articles about "Online Activities", "Teach your child not to interrupt", "10 Things Foster Parents Wish Their Case Managers Knew", "Tips for Parents", "10 Signs a Youngster Needs Counseling", "Medicaid to 26", "It's a Whole New World", "AdoptUSKids" and "Litmus Test for ODD vs CD".
