Hope & Healing for Foster Care
Hope & Healing for Foster Care has been developed to reflect the latest evidence-based research on supporting thriving children in foster care placements.
The training is linked to the Queensland Government’s mandatory training requirements for approved foster carers. You can find out more on the Department’s website.
What is Hope & Healing for Foster Care?
This training will provide foster carers with appropriate strategies and tools to respond to the impacts of trauma on children and young people in their care. Extensive feedback has been sourced from many specialist professionals in the sector to inform the development of the content.
By developing this new content, we have been able to utilise up to date practical tools within the e-learning package. To do this, we have sourced different and engaging tools to ensure the learner is at the centre of taking on relevant knowledge that they can easily apply.
By utilising the Hope & Healing Framework in the development of this training, we will achieve a consistent approach for foster carers day-to-day care. This will increase overall well-being to the children and young people in their care through trauma-informed practice.
Who is this training for?
This self-paced training is designed specifically for approved foster carers, and may be accessed by kinship carers if agency-approved. Training may also be accessed by support workers.
To find out more or if you are eligible to enrol, speak to your foster care agency or employer. If you cannot this course online, please speak to your agency about alternative means of accessing the training.
Find out more
To find out more about the course, understand how to use the training platform, and access your completion certificate, visit the Hope & Healing Support Portal.
Content Warning
Some of the learning content may contain material and topics that are sometimes confronting and disturbing. Sometimes words or images can cause sadness or distress, or trigger traumatic memories for people, particularly survivors of past abuse, violence, or childhood trauma.
For some people, these responses can be overwhelming. If you need to talk to someone, support is available. Lifeline: Call 13 11 14 anytime for confidential telephone crisis support.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that the learning content may include references to, or images or names of, people now deceased.
Our aim is that this training provides the right level of knowledge and support to help Foster Carers thrive in their important and valued role. If you would like to provide any feedback on the content, please contact your organisation who will forward it on to PeakCare.
