North Carolina’s learning site for foster and adoptive parents and kin caregivers, fosteringNC.org, offers a series of free courses about supporting healthy development from infancy through adolescence. This series also explores ways caregivers can support children and youth whose development has been disrupted by trauma. Courses available include:
Foundations of Development (1 hr.)
Normal Development in Infancy and Early Childhood: Part 1 (1 hr.)
Normal Development in Infancy and Early Childhood: Part 2 (1 hr.)
Normal Development in School Age (1 hr.)
Normal Development in Adolescence (1 hr.)
Trauma and Brain Development (1 hr.)
To take these free, self-paced online courses go to https://fosteringnc.org/on-demand-courses/
These courses are brought to you by the NC Division of Social Services and its training partners.
