Category Archives: training

Trauma-informed training for foster, adoptive, and kinship carers

Posted on July 22, 2021 by colbypearce

This morning I read an interesting narrative review of fifteen evaluation studies of trauma-informed care training for foster and adoptive parents (and kinship carers): Lotty, M, Bantry-White, E, & Dunn-Galvin, A, (2021) Trauma-informed care psychoeducational group-based interventions for foster carers … Continue reading →

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Therapeutic Parenting – The CARE Curriculum

Posted on December 2, 2019 by colbypearce

Since I began updating A Short Introduction to Attachment and Attachment Disorder in early 2016, the CARE Therapeutic Framework is the name I have used when referring to content and strategies associated with the CARE Model (Consistency, Accessibility, Responsiveness, Emotional … Continue reading →

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Foster and Kinship Care Week 2019

Posted on September 9, 2019 by colbypearce

Our society simply cannot intervene to protect children and support them to achieve to their potential without foster and kinship carers. We owe them a lot! Continue reading →

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A Short Introduction to the Kinship CARE Project

Posted on April 10, 2019 by colbypearce

Access a PDF of the full article here. In South Australia, forty-six percent of children in out-of-home care with an authority to place are in a kinship care placement. Kinship care is the largest form of out-of-home care in South … Continue reading →