The Specialized Foster Parent Training Project provides training and support to foster parents to help them better care for foster children. It works with other agencies to address the social justice issue of giving foster children safe and loving homes. Trainings cover topics like CPR, child development, and healthcare needs, and are offered in English and Spanish in accessible locations. Additional support includes field-based training, referrals, and a self-directed training option for those unable to attend in-person.

2. • The main social justice the
agency addresses in the
local context is giving
children in foster care the
opportunity of having loving
parents and a safe home.
• It gives children who come
from abusive environments
a sense of belonging, love
and security.

4. • The Specialized Foster
Parent Training Project
works closely with other
agencies such as
• The Department of Social
Services and
• Other Foster Family
Agencies

5. Children physically abused by
their parents or their care
provider
Children sexually abused
Children neglected depriving
them from food, clothing,
shelter, security and love
Children that come from
environments of substance
abuse and domestic violence.
Foster parents due to need to
understand special needs of
foster parents.

6. • The Specialized Foster Parent
Training Project provides training
and support to licensed foster
parents and helps them to better
help foster children when
presented with difficulties in their
lives.
• The Specialized Foster Parent
Training project offers training in
CPR/ First Aid. They offer training
in English and Spanish and they
are offered in places convenient to
foster parents' accessibility.

7. • To foster parents that are unable to attend the trainings, the
Specialized Foster Parent Training Project offers them a self-
directed training. Materials are mailed to them and after they
review the material, foster parents have to take a test and
score at least 70 per cent for hours to be certified.
• The Specialized Foster Parent Training Project provides field
Based Trainers to support and enhance services to foster
parents. They work together with parents and staff to improve
and develop services to meet the needs of foster children.
• The Specialized Foster Parent Training also supports the
services of the Best Dressed Kids and Best Dressed Teens.
The Best Dressed Kids is a clothing store that provides
clothing to foster children.

8. • Trainings
• 20 hrs- Whole Family Foster Care
• Monthly First Aid/ CPR
• Monthly Caring for children birth to 6
years training
• 20 hrs. Specialized Health Care
Needs
• 160 hrs. Basic Level
• 160 hrs. Intermediate level
• Specialized Training- Various
depending on requests
*All offered in English and Spanish

9. • Coffee Connections-
English/ Spanish
• Field Based Training
• Support Training
information and
Referral
• Foster Parent
Recruitment Orientation
• Application Assistance

10. • Social Justice: The training gives equal treatment and equal
opportunity by providing trainings in English and Spanish.
• People in the agency let their clients know that they will get
equal treatment and that they cannot discriminate a child
because of their sex, color, and their environment they come
from.
• Social Values: Agency encourages collaboration by providing
coffee connections in where foster parents can meet and
interact with other foster parents.
• Human rights: The agency promotes everyone’s entitlement to
all human rights without discrimination because of
race, color, sex, language etc. by offering foster parents
information and trainings in their language.
• The agency also promotes the human right that no one shall
be subjected to torture, degrading treatment or punishment by
placing children with loving and caring parents.