Foster Parent Training

• Reasonable Prudent Parent Standards (RPPS)
• Human Trafficking
• Sexual Abuse Prevention 
  
• Safe Kids Car Seat Training
• ​Suicide Prevention
  Foster parents must initially complete one Suicide Prevention training.
  (Foster parents may utilize the other Suicide Prevention trainings for renewal licensure training hours and on-going training needs.)
  
• Counseling on Access to Lethal Means (2 hr)  ​

• Completion of all below modules required
• Approximately 5 total hours

• Intro Module
  
• Module 1
• Module 2
• Module 3 Part 1
• Module 3 Part 2
• Module 4
• Module 5
  

Foster families need to complete 16 hours of adoption training when permanency is heading towards adoption to meet Public Health's regulation requirement.

Two courses for adoption training for Nebraska:

Nebraska Additional Training for Children over 12 months or medical fragile (4 courses one hour courses)
(this training is for 12 months and above)

OR

Nebraska Domestic Infant Adoption Package (16 one hour courses)
(this training is for adoptions of infant to 12 months of age only)

The courses are in podcast style format (audio based with no visual slide presentation). These can be downloaded and listened to on the go, you don't have to be at your computer screen completing these trainings. At the end of each course is a quiz that required to be completed to show completion. The quiz consists of 10 multiple choice questions with needing a score of 80% to pass the course.

PLEASE NOTE: The required completion certificates are sent to the foster parent's email; foster parents must send certificates of completion for the training to your RD worker to receive credit.

To access Creating a Family trainings:

1. Click on a training course

2. Sign in to your Creating a Family account

3. At check-out enter the coupon code received from your supporting RD worker.

4. This coupon code provides FREE trainings for Nebraska foster and adoptive parents.

• WIC Training Module
  
• Understanding Early Childhood Attachment, Trauma and Development
  

To be used for renewal licensure training hours and on-going training needs.

The courses are in podcast style format (audio based with no visual slide presentation). These can be downloaded and listened to on the go, you don't have to be at your computer screen completing these trainings. 

At the end of each course is a quiz that required to be completed to show completion. The quiz consists of 10 multiple choice questions and needing a score of 80% to pass the course. 

PLEASE NOTE: The required completion certificates are sent to the foster parent's email; foster parents must send certificates of completion for the training to your RD worker/supporting agency to receive credit.

To access Creating a Family trainings:

1. Click on a training course

2. Sign in to your Creating a Family account

3. At check-out enter the coupon code received from your supporting Agency and/or RD worker.

4. This coupon code provides FREE trainings for Nebraska foster and adoptive parents.​

Nebraska Foster and Adoptive Parent Association (NFAPA) 

• TIPS MAPP pre-service training
• The TIPS MAPP training schedule is located under the Training & Resources drop down.