Resource Parent Curriculum

Adapting and Using the RPC with Birth Families


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Kristin Barker, MSW, LCSW and her team began implementing the Caring for Children Who Have Experienced Trauma: A Workshop for Resource Parents as a group therapy intervention in November, 2012, thanks to funding from the St. Louis Mental Health Board. They have since expanded this workshop to include biological parents, relatives, and kinship providers in addition to foster/adoptive parents and deliver the curriculum over the course of 12 weekly 75-minute sessions. Integrating this material into traditional group therapy is one example of the various ways organizations across the country are adapting and using this curriculum to meet client needs. In this recording, Kristin Barker shares her suggestions for modifying the curriculum to ensure psychological safety while staying true to the material.

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