Foster and kinship care

• Information for children and young people in care
• Information for existing foster and kinship carers
• Information for potential foster and kinship carers
• Training
  • Foster carer training
    • Foreword
    • Procedures and guidelines
    • Frequently asked questions
    • Orientation
    • Learning outcomes
    • Pre-service training
    • Water safety for carers
    • Learning journal
    • Standard training
    • Caring for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
    • Advanced training
      • Attachment
      • Whose problem is this?
      • Foster Parent College
      • Independence and connections
      • I'm an individual...
      • Infectious diseases
      • Ready, set, fly! A parent's guide to teaching life skills
      • Loss and grief for children in care
      • Participation
      • Positive and Protective series
      • Reality fostering
      • Strategies for Managing Abuse Related Trauma (SMART)
      • Whose job is this?
    • Recognition of prior learning (RPL)
    • Acknowledgements
  • Rights and responsibilities
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
    • Child Placement Principle
  • Regulation of care
    • Responding to concerns about the quality of care received by a child in a care arrangement
    • Community Visitors and Child Advocates
  • Resources and publications
    • Information for existing carers
    • Information for prospective carers
    • Recruitment of foster carers
    • Children and Young People's Participation Strategy
  • Contacts
    • Community foster care agency contacts
      • Brisbane Region
      • Central Queensland Region
      • Far North Queensland Region
      • North Coast Region
      • North Queensland Region
      • South East Region
      • South West Region
    • Indigenous foster care agency contacts
    • Peak body and advocacy group contacts

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4. Foster carer training
   • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
   • Contacts
   • Regulation of care
   • Resources and publications
   • Rights and responsibilities
5. Orientation

Each member of the training team for pre-service and standard modules must have completed the Orientation to Quality care: Foster care training prior to commencing training and have the Orientation - statement of attendance certificate.

• The orientation is a three hour module that must be conducted by a trainer with a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment and experience in delivering the training package.
• After completion of the orientation module, a statement of attendance certificate will be issued to participants and signed by the key trainer.
  • Facilitator notes/session plan (PDF, 167 KB)
  • Powerpoint presentation (PPT, 520 KB)
  • Statement of attendance certificate (PDF, 116 KB)