Sibling Issues in Foster Care and Adoption (1 Credit Hour)
Program Summary: This publication explores research and strategies to assist professionals in preserving connections among siblings in foster care and adoption.
This course is recommended for social workers, counselors, and therapists and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.
Article: Sibling Issues in Foster Care and Adoption
Publisher: Child Welfare Information Gateway
US Department of Health and Human Services
Administration for Children and Families
Administration for Children, Youth and Families
Children’s Bureau
Find the article at: https://www.freestatesocialwork.com/articles/siblingissues.pdf
Program Objectives: To enhance professional values, practice, skills, and knowledge by exploring key issues that affect siblings in foster care and adoption.
Learning Objectives: Identify benefits of placing siblings together. Identify barriers to placing siblings together. Identify policy and practice strategies for keeping siblings together. Identify strategies for preserving ties when siblings are placed apart.
Review our pre-reading study guide.
Free State Social Work, LLC, provider #1235, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 9/6/2021 - 9/6/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 1 continuing education credit.
Free State Social Work has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP NO. 6605. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Free State Social Work is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
G.M. Rydberg-Cox, MSW, LSCSW is the Continuing Education Director at Free State Social Work and responsible for the development of this course. She received her Masters of Social Work in 1996 from the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago and she has over 20 years of experience. She has lived and worked as a social worker in Chicago, Boston, and Kansas City. She currently practices in the area of hospital/medical social work. The reading materials for this course were developed by another organization.