Foster Parent In-Service Trainings
NFAPA In-Service Trainings
Mark you calendars! We have set-up several virtual in-service trainings!
9:00 am-11:00 am
Register: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NFAPA_In-Service_Oct_2024-Sept_2025
Download a Flyer HERE.
February 22, 2025 VIRTUAL
The Impact of Brain Injury on System-Involved Youth Part 2
by Peggy Reisher, ED of the Brain Injury Alliance of NE
For those that attended Part 1 on June 29, 2024 or October 19, 2024 please register to learn more about brain injury.
Peggy will go into more detail on Brain Injury.
March 1, 2025 VIRTUAL
Understanding Problem Solving Teams and ADHD
by Cami Bergman, School-Age Information Specialist, PTI Nebraska
This discussion about school problem solving teams will help you understand the school's process in supporting students who struggle in school as well as a discussion about ADHD that will be helpful in understanding the diagnosis and addressing the child or young adult’s needs at home and school, as well as in college and in the workplace.
April 5, 2025 VIRTUAL
Child Abuse Hotline and Reporting Abuse & Neglect
by Susan Ward, Hotline Deputy Administrator
NOTE: This is the same training offered on July 20, 2024. Please do not register for this workshop if you already attended.
This training will be a great opportunity to learn the basics of reporting concerns for abuse and neglect. There will be a discussion on reporting abuse and neglect to the Hotline and a chance to ask questions and become familiar with what is reportable and what happens after a report is filed.
June 7, 2025 VIRTUAL
FASD 2.0
by Barb Clark, Director of Training for Families Rising
The connection between a child and their first family, is a complicated and vital one. When foster families and case workers find a way to provide shared or co-parenting with the first family, it is often in the best interest of the child. We will discuss the importance of shared parenting and strategies to implement it with the families you are working with.
September 13, 2025 VIRTUAL
De-escalation Training: Understanding the Arc of Escalating Behaviors
by Jaclyn Kodosky, Families Rising
This training helps participants recognize that behavioral outbursts in young people often follow a predictable pattern known as the arc of escalation. By understanding this arc—beginning with initial triggers and progressing to a full-blown crisis—caregivers and professionals can learn to anticipate behaviors, intervene early, and respond effectively at each stage.
Participants will gain insight into the key stages of escalation, learn the importance of early intervention, and explore strategies for managing behavior during and after a crisis. The training emphasizes practical de-escalation techniques, effective communication strategies, and maintaining safety and control. By mastering these skills, participants can defuse potentially volatile situations, reduce harm, and create more positive outcomes in both personal and professional environments.
Additional Training Opportunities for Relative, Kinship, Foster and Adoptive Parents
Children and Family Services and Creating a Family, a national adoption and foster care education and support non-profit organization, has expanded their partnership to enhance training opportunities for all foster homes across the State of Nebraska. All contracted Child Placing Agencies can now offer all of their foster and adoptive families access to an extensive and diverse training curriculum
Foster parents can create an account by going to: https://www.creatingafamilyed.org/users/sign_up
Click on the following website to browse training courses: https://www.creatingafamilyed.org/pages/adoption-courses
To access training:
1. Click on a training course
2. Sign in to your Creating a Family account
3. Contact NFAPA for the coupon code. 402-476-2273 or Felicia@nfapa.org
4. This coupon code provides FREE trainings for foster and adoptive parents
• The training courses are audio based with no visual slide presentation that can be downloaded and listened to on the go, computers are not needed to complete these courses.
• A ten (10) question quiz is required to be completed at the end of each course and an 80% score is required to pass the course to show completion.
• Completion certificates are emailed directly to the training participants.
• 16 hours of adoption training is required prior to an adoption occurring Nebraska Additional Training for Children over 12 months or medical fragile (this training is for 12 months and above) or Nebraska Domestic Infant Adoption Package (this training is for adoptions of infant to 12 months of age only)
SPAULDING In-Service Training Opportunities
Spaulding/In-service Training: Virtual
We are working on dates. Stay tuned!
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 bring
When registering, please know this virtual 12-hour training is conducted over two days.
Friday Evening
6:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Exploring Expectations—Defining adoption, the process, and the key players. Participant’s hopes and fears about the adoption process are recognized and empowerment strategies are identified to assist them in the process. Participant’s explore their fantasies about children they might adopt to become aware of the possible influence on their decision about adoption.
Meeting the Needs of Waiting Children—Assist prospective adoptive parents in focusing on the needs of children awaiting adoption. Explore the issues of separation, loss, grief and attachment. Plus the unique issues related to parenting a child who has been sexually abused.
Saturday
8:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. (Lunch on your own)
Exploring Adoption Issues—Identify supports within their family and introduce them to common issues that all adoptive families face. Help develop strategies for dealing with these issues; explore crisis periods in adoption; explore their own strengths, needs and challenges as they consider adoption.
Making the Commitment—Assist prospective adoptive parents in considering resources they may need, what they need to know, what they need to do, and what they need to explore about themselves as they consider adopting a particular child or children.
Centene Foster Care EDU
Centene Foster Care EDU is a comprehensive educational training initiative offered as a community service that targets all stakeholders of the foster care system. These online trainings are offered free of charge, interactive and facilitated using a ‘conference to you’ approach. These training events are hosted live by national experts and other trainers (open to all foster care stakeholders). Click HERE for more information.
NFPA Training Institute
The Nebraska Foster & Adoptive Parent Association is excited to announce a partnership with the National Foster Parent Association's Training Institute to bring you FREE training opportunities. Combining the child welfare expertise of the NFPA and Centene allows the NFPAti to disseminate training to caregivers more broadly, which will further support and empower caregivers in providing the best possible care to children and youth.
C.A.S.E.
C.A.S.E. offers educational webinar options for families and professionals:
- Live Stream: The first 600 registrations are FREE each month thanks to Jockey Being Family and Jockey International. Extended access is included. Certificates of Attendance and CEUs are available.
- In-Demand: They have 20+ in-demand webinars available when it's most convenient for you! Topics include emotional regulation, trauma, loss & grief, transracial families and more. Note: They only process CEs for the live-stream webinar series.
