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🧩 Optional Training
Foundations Online for Caregivers
This 10-hour training helps you learn about children and youth in need of out-of-home care who have experienced significant adversity as well as the various systems involved in the comprehensive care of children.
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Orientation for Kin and Foster Caregivers
Thank you for your interest in becoming a Kinship or Foster Caregiver! This is the 1st of 3 courses of the required training to become a licensed foster parent through the Vermont Department for Children and Families – Family Services Division.
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Families Forever
This class is designed for Vermont families that are providing, or hope to provide, permanent homes for children through adoption or permanent guardianship. It is a required class for those families adopting a child from foster care.
Child Welfare Summit
Join us for a rich exploration of how trauma impacts children and families, and how trauma-responsive practices can be embedded into our court processes. Together, we will learn what parents need from us, to build self-awareness and the capacity for meaningful change.
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RPC+ Coaching
Coaching for RPC+ Graduates in Vermont is open and free. Each session includes a brief teaching on a relevant topic, followed by open discussion on topics like curriculum revisits, trauma informed parenting, identifying “hot spots” and “static”, and deeper dives into intercultural responsiveness, grief, loss, and birth family partnerships.
Permanency Coaching
Permanency Coaching in Vermont: Open to all caregivers on the permanency pathway. Drop in anytime, no commitment. Topics include permanency discussions, managing difficult questions, discipline, external inquiries, sibling conflicts, challenging behaviors, family identity, grief, loss, and trauma
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