Foster Parent Training
Hope For Kids focuses on providing care for children with reactive attachment disorder, special medical needs and children with emotional, behavioral and mental health disturbances. Our foster parents are not ordinary foster parents they are professional treatment parents who have committed their lives to helping these children. They become professional parents through on-going specialized training and hands-on experience. Expectations are high for our parents. When you open your heart and home to these children you also are committing to fulfilling a great responsibility to meet their demanding emotional, physical, behavioral and medical needs.
All treatment parents will receive systematic, planned, and documented training, which will include competency-based skill training as well as is not limited to the provision of information through didactic instruction. Training is consistent with the program's Christian philosophy and methods and equips treatment parents to successfully meet their responsibilities of the treatment process.
All treatment parents must satisfactorily complete 20 hours of pre-service training and a minimum of 40 hours of in-service training annually that emphasizes skill development as well as knowledge acquisition. This on-going in-service training may be provided in various formats and procedures including in-home training provided by the agency staff. Where two parent families are involved, it is expected that both parents will receive the pre-service and on-going annual in-service training.
