Target audience: caseworkers; supervisors; foster, kinship, and adoptive parents

This interactive, self-guided online course is designed to help child welfare professionals and foster, kinship, and adoptive parents understand the impact of trauma on the development of adolescents who have experienced child abuse and neglect.


Target audience: caseworkers; supervisors; foster, kinship, and adoptive parents

This interactive, self-guided online course is designed to help child welfare professionals and foster, kinship, and adoptive parents understand the impact of trauma on the development of infants and toddlers who have experienced child abuse and neglect.


Target audience: caseworkers; supervisors; foster, kinship, and adoptive parents

This interactive, self-guided online course is designed to help child welfare professionals and foster, kinship, and adoptive parents understand the impact of trauma on the development of school age children who have experienced child abuse and neglect.

Target audience: caseworkers; supervisors; foster, kinship, and adoptive parents

This interactive, self-guided online course is designed to help child welfare professionals and foster, kinship, and adoptive parents understand the impact of trauma on the development of children and youth who have experienced child abuse and neglect.

Target Audience: new foster, kinship, or adoptive parents

BEFORE ENROLLING, click HERE to see if there are open seats in an upcoming session! 

Before the placement of a child or youth in your home, the State of Colorado requires you to complete initial training in a statewide core curriculum. Anyone planning to operate a foster family home in Colorado must achieve a total of 27 hours of pre-certification training, including completion of an initial 12 hours of training prior to a child or youth being placed in your home, as well as certification in first aid (or the equivalent) and CPR for the ages of children or youth in your care. The CWTS Foster Parent Fundamentals hybrid course fulfills this initial 12-hour requirement, providing you with 13.5 hours of training.



Target audience: foster, kinship, and adoptive parents; caseworkers; supervisors; managers and directors; CDHS staff

On a daily basis, parents and caregivers are faced with decisions regarding their children’s safety, permanency, and well-being. These decisions require the use of judgment. The task is complicated for caregivers of children and youth in foster care given the number of laws, policies, guidelines, and rules that restrict activities and require potentially time-consuming approval processes.