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ACRF regularly posts new featured courses of our written self studies. To complete these courses, click on the course below to open, read through the material and complete the questionnaire at the end of the course.

Available Self-Study Courses:

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Education and Youth in Foster Care (3.0 Hours)
Positive Parenting in Foster Care (2.0 Hours)
Animal Cruelty (3.0 Hours)
Kinship Care (2.0 Hours)
Fostering Skills: Boundaries in Foster Care (2.5 Hours)
The Internet for Parents: The Good the Bad and the Ugly (2.0 Hours)
Understanding Team Decision Making (1.0 Hour)

UNDERSTANDING THE REGULATIONS SERIES:

What Alaskan Foster Parents Need to Know: (worth 1.0 hour each)
#1 Positive Parenting and Managing Behaviors
#2 Development of the Young Child in the Foster Home
#3 Child Health and Medications
#4 Nutrition and Eating in the Foster Home
#5 Safety in the Foster Home
#6 Foster Parent Training
#7 Recordkeeping
#8 Foster Homes with Specializations and Foster Group Homes
#9 Confidentiality
#10 Fire Safety, First Aid amd Emergency Preparedness in the Foster Home

ADOPTION AND GUARDIANSHIP PREPARATION TRAINING FOR ALASKA'S RESOURCE FAMILIES:
(worth 1.0 hour each)

#1 The State of AK Child Protection System & Permanency Through Adoption & Guardieanship
#2 The Home Study Process
#3 Special Needs Children and Legal Risk Placement: Open or Closed Adoptions
#4 Core Issues in Adoption
#5 Maintaining Connections and Culture to Family
#6 State of Alasak Adoption or Guardianship Subsidy Program