Training
The Irish Foster Care Association produces training programmes suitable for use by social workers, foster carers and others involved in the areas of child care. Courses include:
Foundation for Fostering
Foundation for Fostering (incorporating New Beginnings) a preparatory training course for prospective foster parents /relative carers and their families.
Target audience: Foster carers and their families, prospective foster carers and their families, social workers, child care workers and health professionals involved in foster care.
Building Bridges
Building Bridges for successful contact. This is an interactive workshop that explores key issues around contact from different perspectives.
Target audience: Foster cares, social workers, child care workers and health professionals involved in foster care.
Minimising the Risk
This is a participative, informative workshop that deals with issues of self care in the foster home.
Target audience: Foster cares, social workers, child care workers, health professionals involved in foster care and all who have contact with children.
The IFCA May Seminar and Annual Conference weekend are training events run by the Association every year. These events are open to all foster/relative carers, social/child care workers, health professionals, academics and any others involved in foster care.
