What does the Family Development Team do?
The Family Development program recruits, trains, and supports families who are interested in becoming resource families through foster care, adoption, relative, kinship or respite care. We will walk with you and your family through the pre-service training and licensure process in partnership with other child welfare organizations. We help you get licensed efficiently with the State of Missouri so that your family can begin supporting children in your community.
If you’re interested in joining a class, start by filling out one of these forms. We’re so excited that you’re taking the next steps.
Info Sessions – Caring Connections: Foster Parenting 101
1-hour info session with insight into what it’s like to be a foster parent in Missouri! We’ll discuss factors to help you decide whether or not now is the right time to open your home to youth in need. We’ll break down stereotypes, debunk misconceptions, and consider how expectations about foster parenting compare to reality.
I WANT TO LEARN MORE
about foster parenting
I’M A FOSTER PARENT
interested in training
STARS CAREGIVER
Nine-hour certified state-mandated training for kinship/relative resource providers.
SPAULDING
12-hour certified state-mandated training for prospective adoptive parents. STARS and/or STRONG certificate required to attend this training.
CORE
This training program will guide families through a self-assessment process, provide classroom instruction to increase their understanding of trauma, and support skill development through the creation of real-time training tools.
SIBLING BOND
A seven-hour certified training to support sibling relationships, effects of separations on siblings, preparing to better support and care for sibling groups.
CPR/FIRST AID/AED
An eight-hour certified first aid, AED, and CPR training course builds the skills and confidence to respond to the most typical life-threatening emergencies.
READY, SET, FLY
A foster parents’ guide to teaching life skills to foster youth ages 14 and over.
MO C.A.R.E.
MO C.A.R.E. is a 30-hour trauma-informed curriculum, including a panel, for prospective foster parents.
Nichole Bean
Family Development Assessment Supervisor
Osage Beach
(573) 645-3371
Message me
Reach out to me for questions regarding home assessments.
Stacey Austin
Family Development Compliance Supervisor
Osage Beach
573-616-5888
Message me
Reach out to me for questions regarding intakes and fingerprinting.
Ashley DeYoung
Family Development Training Supervisor
Rolla
573-619-3795
Message me
Reach out to me for questions regarding trainings.
