About our workshops

This course identifies a range of child developmental milestones and how you can provide the child in your care opportunities for further development. On this course you'll learn:

• Brain development
• Child developmental milestones
• Enhancing the development of the child in your care.

This course will help you to build healthy attachments and contribute to building resilience. On this course you'll learn:

• What is attachment and why is it important?
• Developing secure attachment
• Building resilience (the bounce back factor).

On this course you'll how to manage the behaviour of the child in your care more effectively. On this course you'll learn:

• Values and Beliefs about child behaviours
• Encouraging good behaviours
• Responding to difficult behaviours.

This course will help you to identify child abuse and neglect and respond appropriately. On this course you'll learn:

• What is Maltreatment?
• The effects of maltreatment and family violence
• Responding to a disclosure of abuse
• Breaking the cycle of intergenerational violence.

This course offers you great tips on how to provide a healthy environment. In this course you'll learn:

• Healthy eating
• Hygiene
• Common child conditions
• Mental health and disabilities.

This course will help you to understand how to keep you the carer, the child in your care and their biological family safe. In this course you'll learn:

• Concerns, Complaints and Allegations
• Prevention Strategies
• Environmental Safety
• Keeping Records.

This course will help you to support the child to maintain family and cultural connections. On this course you'll learn:

• Powhiri - (meet and greet) Welcome and who are we?
• Kaupapa - (purpose) Understanding loss and grief
• Kaihakari - (fulfilment of purpose) Maintaining connections to whānau/culture
• Poroporoaki - (closure/farewell) Celebrating and saying goodbye.

This course will help you to understand the impact of the law on your care situation. On this course you'll learn:

• Understanding the Law around children and young people in care
• Legal relationships including access
• Ways children come into care
• Courts and Family Group Conferences.

This course will help you further your skills to foster and develop teamwork and effective communication important for the child in your care. On this course you'll learn:

• Teamwork - working towards the ideal
• The role of problem solving
• Using effective communication.

This course will help you to understand how to strengthen yourself and your family in your foster care role. On this course you'll learn:

• Rights and entitlements
• Support
• Self care
• Carer personal learning plan.

This course will help you to understand and appropriately respond to a young person with behavioural issues. On this course you'll learn:

• Adolescent development
• School / drugs and offending issues
• Managing difficult behaviours
• Transition to independence.

Strengthening Engagement is a one-day workshop about engaging with purpose.

This workshop aims to explore engagement from a workers (carers) perspective.

Everyday, we are working with children and young people who present with various behaviours.  Understanding the underlying reasons behind their behaviours is only part of our role.

This workshop explores key aspects of having an informed response to a child and young person's journey through using the right engagement.

This course is designed to help people who are about to have a child placed with them, or who are new to the role of caregiving.  It is recommended as a prerequisite to other courses available in the National Caregiver Training Programme.

Caregiver Induction focuses on the essential needs of caregivers. This course is designed to make sure it is suitable for all caregivers, or anyone who is caring for someone else's child. On this course you'll learn:

• What is Fostercare?
• Responsibilities of being a fostercarer
• Safety
• Professional development opportunities.