Risking Connection for Foster Parents
Program/Intervention Name
Category
Parenting Skills - Training and Enhancement, Trauma Treatment
Program/Intervention Description
9 Hour Risking Connection for Foster Parents - This instructor-led course is six sessions averaging 90 minutes each. Foster parents want to be there for the children and youth they serve, and this course helps them increase the tools in their toolkit, recognize their needs for self-care, and work with their children
Intervention Target Population Identified (Age Group)
Parent/Adult
Program Goals/Outcomes
Knowledge of content and models essential to Risking Connection, Shift in beliefs favorable to trauma-informed care, Demonstration of behaviors aligned with trauma-informed care, Changes in professional quality of life including an increase in compassion satisfaction, decrease in burn out, and a decrease in secondary (or vicarious) traumatic stress, Responses that reduce the use of restraints and seclusion at organizations, Decreases in staff turnover, staff injuries from client management, increase in staff satisfaction with job, Increases in foster parent retention and decrease in foster placement disruptions
QIC Target Group
Both Target 1 and Target 2
QIC Adoption/Guardianship Relevance Levels
LEVEL 4: Foster Care
QIC level of Evidence
LEVEL 4: Promising Practice
Intervention Web Site/URL
Contact Person/Purveyor
Agency/Affiliation
Contact Email
Contact Phone
External Links (Registry/Other Catalog)
- California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse: www.cebc4cw.org/program/risking-connection/
