Training

Foster Care Training Process

Serving Northwest, Northeast & Central Ohio Regions

After becoming a licensed foster parent, the State of Ohio has specific requirements that need to be met in order to maintain your foster care license.

Traditional Foster Parents are required to complete 40 hours of continuing training every two years, and Treatment Foster Homes are required to complete 60 hours of continuing training every two years. Foster parents may complete 1/3 of these hours through online training or books and/or video training. The remainder of continuing training hours must be obtained through a classroom setting with an instructor present.

About Continuing Training

Kids Count Too provides monthly continuing training. Our agency also provides child care during most of our continuing training as we understand how difficult it may be to find someone to care for foster children during this time. Our training topics are selected by determining the needs of our foster parents at the current time. This information is gathered from the Foster Parent Training Needs Assessment forms, which are completed upon foster parent re-certification every two years. Foster parents may choose to attend outside training at other facilities with the approval of Kids Count Too's Licensing Department.

About Preservice Training

Kids Count Too provides applicants with 36 hours of in-person preservice training. These trainings are intended to prepare prospective foster parents for their future role in dealing with behaviors and situations that might arise during their experience as foster caregivers. The following training topics will be covered during preservice training:

  • Module I: Initial Orientation and Overview of Foster Care
  • Module II: The Child Protection Team
  • Module III: Child Development
  • Module IV: Trauma and Its Effects
  • Module V: Child Sexual Abuse
  • Module VI: Minimizing the Trauma of Placement
  • Module VII: Helping the Child Manage Emotions and Behaviors
  • Module VIII: Transcending Differences in Placement (Cultural Diversity)
  • Module IX: Understanding Primary Families
  • Module X: The Effects of Caregiving on the Caregiver Family
  • Module XI: Long-Term Separation from Birth Parents (Permanency Issues for Children)
  • Module XII: Post-Adoption Issues for Families (Permanency Issues for Families)
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