Help the young person in your care do normal teen things, stay on track in school and head into adulthood with you still behind them. A 2-hour training with a certificate.
This is the fifth course in the Family Who Stepped In series. It's for foster parents, kinship caregivers and guardians raising a teenager, including grandparents, aunts, uncles and family friends, licensed or not. It's for the caregiver who isn't sure what they're allowed to say yes to, who's tired of the same fights over rules, or who's worried about what happens when their teen turns eighteen. Michael Gaither is an adoptee who began life in foster care, and he worked 30 years in education as a teacher and a principal.
Please check with your licensing worker or agency about how many hours they accept for self-paced training.
Agencies can license this course for all of their foster and kin families. You can set that up by emailing hello@beyondthemomentadoptionstudio.com.
Michael Gaither is an adult adoptee. He was born in Syracuse, New York, and spent about eighteen months in foster care before he was adopted. He grew up with a white family in Lincoln, Nebraska, and met his birth family in person for the first time at forty-nine.
He spent 30 years in education as a teacher and a principal, and 13 of those years running his own executive leadership coaching business for school principals. His book, I Was Your Black Child: What White Parents Raising Black Children Need to Hear Before It's Too Late, tells the story of growing up Black in a white household. Through Beyond the Moment Adoption Studio, he helps adoptive and foster families understand what their children may be carrying.
