About This Program
Target Population:
Not Specified
Program Overview
PATH is a ten-week curriculum developed to train prospective foster parents. Sessions are intended to help parents decide whether fostering or adoption is appropriate for them. Sessions address:
- How resource families differ from birth families
- How and why children in the welfare system develop survival behaviors
- The different roles of birth, legal, and caregiving parents
- Characteristics of successful resource families
- The types of abuse and neglect experienced within the child welfare system, survival behaviors developed, and the emotional issues underlying these behaviors
- The impact of separation and trauma on children, and the importance of emotional attachment
- Understanding issues faced by children in transition, and identifying existing and future family strengths and support
- Tools and techniques to help children develop attachment
- Disciplinary techniques for children who have experienced trauma
The final session consists of a panel discussion with experienced Resource parents and children.
Logic Model
The program representative did not provide information about a Logic Model for Parents as Tender Healers (PATH).
Manuals and Training
Publicly available information indicates there is a manual that describes how to deliver this program, and there is some training available for this program.
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Relevant Published, Peer-Reviewed Research
There are currently no published, peer-reviewed research studies on outcomes with the appropriate target population for the topic area(s) in which Parents as Tender Healers (PATH) has been reviewed.
Additional References
No reference materials are currently available for Parents as Tender Healers (PATH).
Date Research Evidence Last Reviewed by CEBC: May 2018
Date Program Content Last Reviewed by Program Staff: July 2007
Date Program Originally Loaded onto CEBC: July 2007
