FCAC Online Training offers 125 courses (5 interactive) with new topics added continuously. Complete mandated training hours from the comfort of your home. Training online offers flexible hours.....train around your schedule. No need for baby sitters.

Courses are developed by professionals with extensive experience, and most hold a Masters or Ph.D.

Certificates are immediately generated with the passing of course test. Certificates may be emailed or downloaded directly to your computer and printed out. Certificates contain your name, course title, hours credited, and date.

Testimonials from Foster/Adoptive Families

• "I am a former DSHS employee who taught foster parents, wrote curriculum, and worked with foster/adopt/relative placement families. I find myself now wearing the shoes of an adoptive parent of 9 and still required to meet the training requirements for foster care. I have taken just about every class the planet can offer, and I STILL enjoy the quality, quantity, and profession information and presentation of your Online Training Program. You have saved my sanity on training. I find myself giggling with you, hoping with you, and learning with you. Thanksabunch!!" - MaryJo

• "I just finished the course on Anger Management. My goal was to do the reading, take the test and be done with it. Well, surprise, surprise. I loved it!!! The lesson had so much more information in it than just about anger management. It touched on different ways we see the acting out of children (and adults) who are experiencing episodes of unresolved anger. I am a believer in your site and will be visiting often and telling all of my friends. Thanks." Jocelyn

• "I am in the process of adopting a child born to a mother who was both drug and alcohol dependent. It was necessary for me to get 6 credits to maintain my foster/adoption parent status, but none of the programs offered in my area seemed to relate to my child. I found your site by accident, and not only did I find the credits, but very useful information to help me deal with this wonderful challenge I have been entrusted with.
  Although I have the credits I need, I will continue taking the training you offer, it is just what the Dr ordered." Marian

• "I have read many books, literature and websites but never have I felt someone hit the nail on the head until now. This is exactly what it is like and every word is in layman's terms and easy to understand and easy to take a medical jargon and make it real and apply to ones life and child. I feel at times like she must be looking at us through a two way mirror because she has this down to a fine art. I wish i could have people in my life who understand what it is I go through and what it is she goes through and why she does what she does. Now I feel as if I do have that type of support. I couldn't do this without programs like this and people like all of you, that care enough to start a website like this." -- Sheralyn from California

• "I will add that these trainings are not only of incredible value and taught by some wonderful and experienced professionals, but are very convenient to take. No farming out the children and using valuable respite hours to go do a training. No driving, parking, uncomfortable chair to sit in for hours, interruptions and hoping for a little something to come home with. I have printed out each training and saved it in a notebook for future reference. After having close to 80 babies and over 200 older foster children in my home, and with still much more to learn, I want to thank you so much for these excellent training's." -- Dr. Heidi McLain, foster Mom!

• "I truly enjoy the courses and find them much more informative than other sites and many reference materials. Besides being written where they are easily understood, I have found them to be very comprehensive. I have shared articles with psychologists and therapists who also found them to be truly worthwhile and have recommended the site to other patients." -- Vickie

• "Your training is the only approved training our families are allowed to get credit from. I appreciate your service!" -- Ruth

• "'The "Aspergers, Autism & Other Pervasive Developmental Disorders' course was outstanding. You get such a wealth of knowledge from your courses, we love them." -- Jackie

• "Your classes inform me more than my child's therapist about how to help him." -- Mariana

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In addition to serving foster parents, FCAC is now approved for Social Worker/MFT CEU credits by:

• California Board of Behavioral Sciences (#PCE3891) for Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists and Counselors (more info)
• Alabama State Board of Social Work (#0076) CEU
• Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Examiners (Social Workers & MFT)
• Georgia Composite Board of Professional Counselors, Social Workers and Marriage and Family Therapists (more info)
• Illinois Department of Financial & Professional Regulation (#159.001046) (social workers)
• Indiana Social Worker, Marriage & Family Therapist, & Mental Health Counselor Board
• Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners (10 hours of Category II home study)
• Michigan Bureau of Health Professions(social workers - 10 hrs)
• Missouri Divison of Professional Registration, Committee for Social Workers (15 hours)
• Montana Board of Social Work Examiners and Professional Counselors (#SWP-11,12 &13-2008) (more info)
• Oklahoma Board of Licensed Social Workers (CEP#20090187)
• Pennsylvania State Board of Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists & Professional Counselors (#002000)
• Rhode Island Dept. Of Health, Office of Professional Regulation (Social Workers)
• Texas State Board of Social Workers Examiners (#5002)
• Vermont Office of the Secretary of State, Lic.&Reg (SW- 5 hrs)
• Virginia Board of Social Work
• Wisconsin Department of Regulation & Licensing Office of Education & Examinations (Social Workers) (more info)
• For more info about using our training to fulfill social worker continuing education, please click on your state name:Arkansas, Delaware, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, Nebraska, Tennessee, Wyoming

Testimonials from Social Workers & MFTs

• "I have been blessed with your online training and literature; I am also a ABC Model Trainer, Social worker, Counselor, teacher for the gifted and formal University Instructor, and I am so pleased and feel rewarded! because, I am learning skills that no one previously mentioned to me...." - Yolanda, NY

• "Over the past 4 days I've completed a total of 30 CEUs from various sites. The content of your courses was the best, and the price was the least! AMAZING!" - Virginia

• "Very informative in easy to understand terms. I can use this information to help those I manage better understand the children in which they work." Jada - Alabama

• "Thanks so much. I appreciate your organization offering this interesting continuing education, in the convenience of my home, and at very reasonable prices. This is a great service" - Lynn from Alabama

• "This was such a thorough online training course that I found it to be helpful for keeping up with my Master's level social work skills as well as professionals who have worked their way through the ranks."

• "The course was great...but the price was unbeatable for ceu!!!" Alabama

• "Thank you for a very inexpensive CEU that was just as complete and even more direct than the expensive ones. It helped me on a tight budget. Keep up the good work."

• "EXCELLENT MATERIAL. I have referred numerous others to this site". - California

• "This was one of the best trainings I have had recently and was very well-written. The author was not only very knowledgeable on the subject, but she brought in personal experiences and gave a lot of practical examples and suggestions of how to help children with this disorder. I will definitely continue to use your program for training for myself and for my foster parents I supervise."

• "I plan to use your site in the very near future to obtain CEUs. Thank you for offering a very affordable option for me to obtain my CEUs." - Alabama

• "Great information - great price. It was easy to fit into my schedule. - California

A Guide to Foster Parenting - EVERYTHING BUT THE KIDS! By Mary Ann Goodearle, MS

If you enjoy her courses you will love the book! "A Guide to Foster Parenting: Everything But The Kids!" is a journey you will travel alongside Mary as she writes about ways to make your vocation as a foster parent a long and rewarding experience.

"My primary goal and theme throughout the book is to help foster parents improve the climate in which they work and live. Children need loving and dedicated foster parents. My hope is that you will stick around and be there for them for a long time." Mary Goodearle

Mary is a foster parent trainer, consultant and author. Mary and her husband, Allen, fostered over 40 children, and are the parents of seven adopted children and two biological children. Mary is a former Child Protection Social Worker, Foster Care Coordinator, and State Adoption Social Worker. She taught classes in Foster Care and Adoption at a community college for nine years and trained in partnership with the University of Wisconsin providing workshops and seminars for both foster parents and social workers. Mary holds a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology and Psychology, and a Master's Degree in Human Services Management and Public Administration. 

Liz Randolph, MSN, Ph.D works as a family therapist with traumatized children and adolescents. Her training, research and experience with Attachment Disorder (AD), traumatized children is offered online and we highly recommend it. These courses are getting excellent reviews from those who have taken them.

Learn how to have more fun when parenting traumatized children.

Dr. Randolph has written several books - LizRandolph.com

Click here to order:

Parenting Traumatized Children Series 3.0 hours credit

FCAC Welcomes Dr. Karyn Purvis & Dr. David Cross to Our Training Staff

"Creating A Healing Environment for Children” is a course which has grown out of many years of research by Karyn Purvis, Ph.D. and David Cross, Ph.D. Karyn and David are co-founders of the Adoption Project, which is an outreach program of the Developmental Research Lab at TCU, directed by David. The Adoption Project consists of research and intervention; student, parent, and professional training; as well as advocacy in the greater child-welfare community. The Hope Connection is the centerpiece of the Adoption Project and consists of a five-week summer day camp for at-risk adopted children and their parents. The camp program is unique in that it is a research-based intervention and has gathered dynamic data for six years, which have been used to empower adoptive parents and their children. David was a foster child himself, and Karyn served as foster parent to many children in addition to having two adopted grandchildren of her own. In addition to working in the Adoption Project and Hope Connection, David and Karyn work actively in child advocacy and speak frequently at parent and professional meetings.

Click here to order: Creating A Healing Environment for Children 3.0 hours credit

CRIS (CAREGIVERS RECORDING INFORMATION SYSTEM)

Caregivers Recording Information System is a tool for foster parents to keep track of important information for the children in their care.

The software includes a number of areas you can enter data: Caregiver Information, Child Information (unlimited numbers of children), Medical Information, Physical Information, Education Information, Family History, Personal Information, Contact List, Appointments, Incident Report, Daily Log, Expenses, Images (scanned reports cards or other documents), Lifebook (keep track of childrens pictures)

Criskids is committed to giving back to the community, CRIS sells for $50.00 -- $10.00 from each sale will go to the Foster Parent Association of your choice. This is an excellent opportunity for Associations to do some fund raising. If you do not choose an association, the money will be deposited into the CRISkids Foundation. If your association is interested, Criskids is prepared to do an online powerpoint presentation.

You can download a 30 day Free trial from their website www.criskids.com

For more information feel free to email or call: sharyn@criskids.com 416.620.0303