FCAC Online Training offers 113 courses (4 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 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

• "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
• 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#20080187)
• 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

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

• "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

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