FAFS foster adoptive & kinship parent training is available to all licensed resource parents through a contract with the New Jersey Department of Children and Families. County-Based Workshops, Home Correspondence Courses and Online Training are free for all New Jersey licensed resource families. All others are eligible to take FAFS training at a nominal fee.

Our free foster adoptive & kinship parent training is relevant and specific to the needs of our families and the children they serve. Topics are designed to help you take the best care of the children in your home while meeting your in-service training hours licensing requirements.

NJ Foster Adoptive & Kinship Parent (Resource Parent) Licensing Requirements: Primary Provider - 7 hours annually or 21 hours over a 3 year licensing cycle; Secondary Provider - 5 hours annually or 15 hours over a 3 year licensing cycle.

Please note: FAFS in-service training allows current NJ resource parents to maintain their license. For information on PRIDE training for potential resource parents, which FAFS does not currently offer, please click here.

Free New Jersey Foster Adoptive & Kinship Parent Training Options:

• Free Foster Adoptive & Kinship Parent Online Training (FAFS Train Online): Bridging time and distance, you will be able to take courses online at a time that is convenient for you. At this time, this service is ONLY available to licensed resource parents in NJ. Click here to see FAFS' Online Training Catalog - new courses are always being added!
• Free Foster Adoptive & Kinship Parent Home Correspondence Courses: These educational booklets address various issues you may encounter as a resource parent. Completion of these courses will give you in-service training hours which can be used towards maintaining your resource parent home license.
• Free Foster Adoptive & Kinship Parent Support Group Meetings & Presentations - Our local Volunteer Committees/Affiliate regularly offer in service training hours for New Jersey resource parents through presentations by experts in various fields. Find FAFS' Foster Adoptive & Kinship Parent Support Group in your county. (In case of inclement weather, please check FAFS' Announcements page or call 1.800.222.0047 to see if the meeting/training is still being held.)
• Free Foster Adoptive & Kinship Parent Webinars (FAFS eLive Webinar Workshops): NEW! In these highly interactive classes, you will share and learn from a wide diversity of resource parents from across the entire state of New Jersey. These for credit workshops will be webinars conducted online in real time by a live instructor. Download Webinar Flyer
• Many FAFS Train Online and Home Correspondence Courses for Licensed NJ Foster Adoptive & Kinship Parents (NJ licensed resource parents) are available in Spanish.

Download the FAFS 2011-2012 Training Catalog
Please note: For the latest course updates, please check the individual training modalities web pages.

FAFS maintains a Training Transcript for all trainings we offer, so NJ licensed resource parents can keep track of courses taken and in-service training hours earned with ease. Learn more about the NJ resource parent training transcript

FAFS' hours of operation are Monday - Friday: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. FAFS' Hotline is available Monday - Friday: 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Please call if you have questions regarding our free foster parent training, free online NJ foster parent training or free NJ foster adoptive & kinship parent (resource parent) training.