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Duration
20 Contact Hours
National Adoption Competency Training for Child Welfare Professionals Training Initiative
Advancing Practice for Permanency & Well-Being!
The free, web-based training enables you to better address the mental health & developmental needs of children in foster, adoptive, or kinship families. The NTI training can change your practice with the goal of improving well-being and permanency outcomes for youth in foster, adoptive, and guardianship families.
The free, web-based training enables you to better address the mental health & developmental needs of children in foster, adoptive, or kinship families. The NTI training can change your practice with the goal of improving well-being and permanency outcomes for youth in foster, adoptive, and guardianship families.

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Child welfare professionals training resources
Enhance your foundational knowledge, values, and
skills for adoption competent casework and practice!
- Focuses on the behavioral and mental health needs of children moving toward adoption or guardianship.
- Improved capacity to apply trauma-informed, attachment-based casework.
- Provides a companion supervisor curricula with downloadable coaching activity guide to support application of learning to practice.
- Increased knowledge of the complexities of adoption, kinship and guardianship.
- Enhanced professional skills needed to promote stability and permanency for children and their families.