The Resource Parent Curriculum was developed by NCTSN as a group format, caregiver training intervention. The format pairs facilitator with mental health/child welfare background with a co-facilitator with lived experience parenting a child who has experienced trauma. The group covers the “essential elements of trauma-informed parenting” during it’s eight modules. RPC has been shown to reduce foster parent burn out, increase foster parent retention, and increase placement stability. You can learn more at the NCTSN learning center below.

CARE is an evidence-based universal approach to help any adult interacting with children or teens. It uses skills designed to enhance child-adult relationships and to reduce mild to moderate behavior problems. CARE is a trauma-informed training model for caregivers and professionals, paraprofessionals, and lay public who interact and work with children.

In 2017, a study by Strolin-Goltzman, McCrae, and Emery showed that combining RPC and CARE led to improvements in caregiver knowledge, parental self-efficacy, and a decrease in negative perceptions of children following the training. To read the full text article, click below.