The National Training and Development Curriculum for Foster and Adoptive Parents (NTDC) was funded through a five-year cooperative agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Children’s Bureau. This cooperative agreement was led by Spaulding for Children in close partnership with other agencies.

The NTDC has undergone a rigorous evaluation in seven pilot sites (which consists of states and counties and one tribal nation) and four privatee agencies that work with families who adopt private domestically or via the intercountry process.

The NTDC team is excited about this curriculum and its potential to positively impact not only the lives of parents who are fostering or adopting but also the lives of children who are in foster care or have been adopted.

Target Audience

• • families who foster, provide kinship care and/or adopt children from the child welfare system,
  • families who adopt via the intercountry or private domestic process, and
  • American Indian Alaska Native families who foster, provide kinship care and/or adopt children from the tribal child welfare system.