Foster Family Home Licensing in Child Welfare Services

Foster Family Home Licensing in Child Welfare Services is a three-day, competency-based curriculum that covers the process of licensing foster parents for a North Carolina county department of social services. Topics include:

• North Carolina licensing procedures,
• Issues of kinship and pre-adoptive placements,
• Assisting families in the self-selection process and in their partnerships with other team members,
• Matching children with the most appropriate placement,
• MEPA considerations,
• The roles of the licensing worker and the child placement worker,
• Preventing disruptions, and
• Skills for working with foster parents.
  

To view this curriculum's table of contents and a list of the competencies it addresses, click here.

Foster Family Home Licensing in Child Welfare Services is currently offered free of charge to social workers from North Carolina departments of social services. To learn more about class times and registration for this course go to ncswLearn.org, a site where North Carolina's human services professionals can discover and engage in the learning opportunities provided by the NC Division of Social Services.

If you work in child welfare outside of North Carolina and you are interested in learning more about this curriculum, please contact the Resource Program's training coordinator, Amy Ramirez (t: 919/962-4365; e: aramirez@email.unc.edu).