Training by topic

Training topics are listed in alphabetical order and cover topics named in the Individualized Training Plan (ITP). Do you have questions about finding training to support you in your specific situation? We'd love to help. Please contact us.

All training received is credited for the current licensing year at the time it is submitted to ACRF. Self-study training submitted within one licensing year cannot be carried over to the next year.

A

• ADD/ADHD, sensory integration issues
• Adolescent development and guidance
• Adoption
• Adoption Competency Training for Mental Health Providers
• Aggression and de-escalation
• Animal safety
• Attachment
• Autism spectrum disorders

B

• Boundaries and touch

C

• Child abuse, domestic violence, neglect
• Child development
• Communication skills
• Cultural awareness and cultural competency

D

• Depression, self-destructive behavior

E

• Eating and food issues
• Educational, school issues
  

F

• Family contact, visits
• Fostering connections through the male perspective
• Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, pre-natal exposure to drugs
• Fire safety, fire setting
• First aid, CPR
  
• Financial matters
• Foster care regulations
• Foster parent skill-sharing
  

G

H

• Health care and hygiene

I

• Independent living skills
• Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), Tribal placements
  
• Infant care
• Investigations of foster homes

J

K

• Kinship care, relative caregivers

L

• LGBTQ+
• Lying

M

• Medically fragile
• Mental health, psychotropic medications

N

O

• Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)

P

• Positive Parenting Strategies: Meet Them Where They're At
• Preparing and maintaining your home
• Professional Skills Training Series
• Publications
  

Q

R

• Reunification
• Runaways, sex trafficking

S

• Second year training pack
• Self care and de-escalation skills for parents
• Separation, loss, grief
• Sexual abuse, sexual acting out
• Stealing
• Stress and Anger
• Sleep-related issues, safe sleep practices
• Supervision issues, choosing childcare
• Substance abuse

T

• Technology, social media, confidentiality
• Transition to another placement or home
• Trauma and trauma informed parenting
• Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI)

U

V

• Voices of Lived Experience

W

• Webi-conference center
• Working with birth parents and relatives
• Working with the Office of Children's Services

X

Y

Z