Relative & Kinship Foster Care

 
 
 
 
 
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​​Keeping kids safe, connected, and close to home.

In Nebraska, relative and kinship care keeps children close to the people they know and trust. Whether you're a grandparent, aunt, uncle, family friend or other trusted adult in the child's life, opening your home to a child can give them the safety, stability and comfort they need to feel secure during challenging times.


Online Foster Parent Training

Training Requirements

  • Must watch each module in it's entirety to receive credit. DHHS will verify each training module has been viewed in it's entirety by using a time stamp. If the time stamps do not match, caregivers will be asked to retake the training.
  • Reach out to your supporting agency with questions.


Foster Parent Training Modules​

Required Trainings for ALL Foster Homes


PLEASE NOTE: Foster parents must send the certificates of completion for the training to your RD worker/supporting agency to receive credit.​​

Online Relative Module Training

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

Adoption Training

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.

Ongoing Training

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.

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Resources

  • Nebraska Foster and Adoptive Parent Association
    The Nebraska Foster and Adoptive Parent Association, NFAPA, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, was formed in 1999 to increase the amount of information, resources and support available to Nebraska's resource families.
  • National Training and Development Curriculum (NTDC)
    NTDC is a comprehensive no-cost curriculum that tackles separation, loss, grief, and trauma in adoption and foster care. This cutting-edge resource offers adoptive, kinship, and foster parents flexible education to empower them over the course of time and at the right time. Wording seems off here.
  • Creating a Family
    Creating a Family is a support and training nonprofit for foster, adoptive, and kinship families. Their mission is to strengthen families and the professionals who support them by creating evidence-based, trauma-informed resources, community support, and training. Our vision is that every child has a family who understands their unique strengths and challenges and is equipped to help them thrive.
  • Grandfamilies
    Grandfamilies.org is a national resource in support of grandfamilies within and outside the child welfare system. A grandfamily is a family structure where one or more children live with and are raised by their grandparents, other adult relatives or other trusted adults.  
  • Families Forever
    For families formed through adoption or guardianship, NCHS's Families Forever program is there for support. Their connections to community resources, one-on-one peer support, and educational courses can help you strengthen and deepen connections and relationships within your family. They use the evidence-based “Family Check-Up" and “Everyday Parenting" models.
  • Economic Assistance​
    Economic Assistance programs promote well-being and provide support to achieve self-sufficiency for families, children, individuals, the elderly, and persons with disabilities by providing medical, nutritional, and financial services.​

Contact Us​

Relative & Kinship Foster Care Team
Department of Health & Human Services

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