Respectful Relationships with Young People with Mental Health Concerns
Building Respectful Relationships: Supporting Young People with Mental Health ConcernsTrust and respect are the foundations of effective care. This course empowers foster carers to connect meaningfully with young people facing mental health challenges—fostering safety, understanding, and partnership through compassionate, informed support.
Caring for a Child After Separation from Their Birth Family
Separation from a family of origin can be a deeply distressing experience for a child. This course helps foster carers understand the emotional impact of separation and provides practical guidance on offering stability, compassion, and reassurance during this critical transition.
Developmental Trauma and the Impact on Behaviour
Understanding Developmental Trauma: A Key to Supporting BehaviourChildren who have experienced trauma often communicate their pain through behaviour. This short course explores how early trauma affects brain development and emotional regulation—and equips you with practical strategies to respond with empathy, confidence, and consistency.
Snapshot Training: 9 Short Courses
Designed with your time in mind.As a carer, your time is both precious and limited. Our collection of concise, 30-minute courses is tailored to fit your busy schedule—delivering practical insights and strategies that support your role and help achieve better outcomes for the children in your care. Fostering Growth’s Shapshot Training Courses Include: Carer Wellbeing […]
The Conversation: Encouraging Healthy Sexual Relationships of Young People Post Trauma
‘…not every young person’s experience of sex has been positive. Our goal is to support young people reach a positive sexual sense of self despite past trauma.’ Engaging with young people who have experienced trauma around the topic of sexual health poses unique and sometimes complex challenges. An experience of trauma can lead to poorer […]
Advocate for Yourself and Others
As a foster carer, kinship carer, adoptive parent or worker in the out-of-home care sector, there will be many occasions which will require you to advocate for the child or young person in your care, for yourself, your family and others. This course looks at: What is advocacy. The need for advocacy. The types of […]
Understanding and Managing Anxiety in Children and Young People
Being a worker or carer presents many benefits and some challenges. One of the challenges can be managing anxiety. This course has been designed to build knowledge and understanding of children and young people who experience anxiety. This course explores the underlying causes of anxiety including loss and grief to give you a better understanding […]
Caring for a Child or Young Person from a Culturally and Linguistic Diverse (CALD) Background
You may find yourself caring for a child or young person with a culture that differs from your own. The phrase Culturally and Linguistic Diverse Background (CALD) is used to describe the ethnic groups from different cultural backgrounds to the dominant Australian culture. This course was developed to raise awareness of the importance of maintaining […]
Caring for a Child or Young Person who has Experienced Sexual Abuse
Did you know that between 20% to 40% of girls and 10% to 15% of boys experience sexual abuse by the age of 16 years-old? This course was developed to increase your understanding on how sexual abuse can impact on children and young people’s lives and to provide strategies for caring for a child or […]
Life Story Work: Be Real, Be Honest
This is a short course aimed to promote, protect, and nurture each child and young person’s individual life story. Every person has a life story. No two stories will ever be the same, but everyone is unique and worth capturing. This course will cover: What is a life story? The importance of life story work for […]
