About Trainings

There are several required or recommended trainings for foster and adoptive parents. Below, we’ve outlined each of the trainings that Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries offers.

MO C.А.R.E.

The first step toward becoming a foster or adoptive parent is completing the assessment and training program. The first of the trainings for foster and adoptive parents is the MO C.A.R.E. foster parent training program. You will learn about trauma-informed parenting, as well as other parenting strategies to be a successful foster parent.

This program introduces prospective foster and adoptive families to the rewards and challenges involved in caring for Missouri’s most vulnerable children.

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Respite Care Provider Training

Respite care provides foster parents relief from the daily challenges of caring for a foster child. This helps prevent abuse of foster children, foster parent burnout and the loss of experienced, quality foster parents.

Respite is rest for foster parents and a chance for you to mentor a child in foster care.

CPR/First Aid/AED

This is a blended training, which means it requires online and in-person participation. The online portion of the training will take approximately three hours to complete over multiple sessions. This portion teaches the skills necessary to give basic care needed in a health crisis. Then, you will choose one of the skill assessment dates to come in for an in-person session, coordinated with one of our trainers and taking about one hour of time.

If you are NOT a Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries family, this training will cost $80.

*This is a required training for all foster parents before they can become licensed.

TBRI® Training

Caring well for kids coming out of trauma can be incredibly challenging. Our facilitators present various Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI®) topics and trauma-informed parenting skills. You do not need to have any previous TBRI® training. This training will also enable foster and adoptive parents to care for Youth with Elevated Needs (YEN) Level A.

This information is for everyone: families, school professionals, case managers, CASA, and others who work with those in foster/adoptive homes or from hard places. Our hope is to help families build safe and healthy relationships that promote growth and connectedness.

Making Sense of Your Worth

Self-worth is the foundation of who we are as human beings. It plays a role in every decision we make and in every relationship we have. This eight week program is designed for individuals who want the freedom associated with positive self-worth and secure attachment. Making Sense of Your Worth follows a step-by-step process of replacing the lies the world has told us about who we are with the truth of who we really are. 

YEN Level B

This class will enable you to serve Youth with Elevated Needs-Level B. YEN Level A is a pre-requisite for this class. You can fulfill this requirement by taking one of our upcoming TBRI® classes.

Spaulding Foster to Adopt

If your goal is fostering to adopt, you need to complete a Spaulding Training. This twelve-hour course offers families the tools and information they need to understand how the fostering to adopt process works.

STARS and Spaulding Training sessions are the place to answer your questions, build relationships with other parents and with Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries’s staff to help you determine whether your family has the ability to meet the children’s needs.

Importance of Sibling Placement

This in-person class will enhance understanding of issues concerning siblings placed in out-of-home care. Foster families must complete this training within two years of receiving their license.

Ready, Set, Fly!

The “Ready, Set, Fly!” curriculum teaches parents how to deliver life skills to older youth. This is a required training for foster parents of teenagers. Parents should complete it within the first year of receiving their license.

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