Adoption Competency Training Program

Child Welfare Training

NTI enables Child Welfare Agencies to engage effectively with children, youth, and families who’ve experienced trauma, loss and grief. This 7 module, 20 hour web-based training focuses on case work practices and professional skills for staff across the child welfare continuum to promote child well-being, permanency and family stability for children living with foster, adoptive or guardianship families.

• 17.5 continuing education units (CEUs)
• Casework focused
• For child welfare professionals across the continuum in public and private settings
• Access the child welfare training here.

Child Welfare Supervisor Training

• NTI enables Child Welfare Agencies to engage effectively with children, youth, and families who’ve experienced trauma, loss and grief.  Child Welfare Supervisors will receive the 8 module, 25 hour web-based training, as well as an additional 3 hours of training and a “Supervisor Coaching and Activity Guide” to support staff in applying learning to daily practice.
• 21.5 continuing education units (CEUs)
• Access the child welfare supervisor training here.

Mental Health Training

• NTI can help equip Mental Health Professionals to more effectively address challenges that compromise well-being and family stability. The 9 module, 30 hour web-based training focuses on assessment, support and therapeutic interventions which promote permanency and improve well-being for children and youth and their foster, adoptive and guardianship families.
• 26.5 continuing education units (CEUs)
• Clinically focused on assessment and treatment
• For mental health professionals in public or private settings providing clinical services to children, youth and families experiences foster care, adoption or guardianship
• Access the mental health training here.

School-Based Mental Health Training

• 17.5 hours
• 8 modules
• 17.5 continuing education units (CEUs)
• Focused on more deeply understanding underlying causes of students' behavior
• For school-based mental health professionals who want to more deeply understand and address the mental health needs of students experiencing adoption, foster care, kinship or guardianship situations
• In addition, this training is relevant for students experiencing other types of trauma, such as refugee, immigrant and homeless situations and/or divorced families.
• Access the school-based mental health training here.

“NTI offers an easy-to-use and comprehensive overview of the unique issues of children in adoption and foster care placement. Many adoptive families share that therapists lacking adoption competence training can, at times, do more harm than good. I have found there is very little substantive training like NTI available today.” 

-Dr. David Brodzinsky