Encourage is excited to announce that our prep courses to become a licensed foster family is now 24 hours.
Due to House Bill 8, the Ohio legislature has reduced the training requirements for foster caregivers from 36 hours to 24 hours effective January 22, 2021. Here is a summary quote from The Ohio Children’s Alliance, “Passage of HB 8 will equip Ohio’s child welfare system to onboard foster parents quicker and utilize virtual training opportunities. This is especially important given Ohio’s recent rise in foster care placements and the need to leverage virtual technology amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Encourage foster parent prep courses provide the tools for families to be successful as they say YES to a placement. We have a talented and compassionate team that will ensure you have support, guidance and resources as you take the journey as a foster family. Our focus is providing standard training that is mandated by the state as well as specialized training with a trauma-informed approach.
We teach our families TBRI, an attachment-based, trauma-informed intervention that is designed to meet the complex needs of vulnerable children. TBRI uses Connecting Principles for attachment needs, Empowering Principles to address physical needs, and Correcting Principles to disarm fear-based behaviors. While the intervention is based on years of attachment, sensory processing and neuroscience research, the heartbeat of TBRI is connection.
If you have a heart to foster, yet you have questions, please make that phone call. Heather Huebner, our foster parent recruiter, would love the opportunity to answer your questions and share all about Encourage Foster Care. She can be reached at 330.462.1118.
Imperfect parents needed and YES, you can foster too. ❤️
