From Foster Care to Success. Find out more about foster care motivational and inspirational speaker Derek Clark. Before Derek Clark was a popular motivational speaker and an author of six inspirational books, he was a young hopeless abused child who was abandoned.

A New Standard in Placement Stability. Results validated by researchers from the KU School of Social Welfare. ECAP is a revolutionary new decision support tool that reduces placement disruptions, decreases time to permanency, and translates into cost savings for foster care agencies. ECAP is a web-based decision support tool that assists child welfare staff with making the best possible placement decision for children in foster care.

Foster Care to Adoption, Our Experience. enjoy the ride! It started with a phone call. Kids of Trauma are not Demons. Instead of recapping the entire history of this adoption gone wrong story, visit this. Did you notice that in the article and interview, never did we hear a real reason on.

Welcome to the Foster Care Training website, which features a monthly schedule of courses offered at no cost to care providers of foster and adoptive care children in Alameda, Contra Costa, Mendocino and Solano Counties. Each month, we offer a wide variety of courses designed to empower foster and adoptive care providers with tools to support the vital services they deliver. The Alameda County Course Catalog. Contra Costa County Course Catalog.