Fostering Idaho Training provides all the pre-service and ongoing trainings required to obtain and maintain your Idaho foster care license. Our trainers implement engaging, current, relevant training that provide skills foster parents need to best care for children & youth.

"The Independent Living Program works with teens and young adults, ages 14-21, to teach them the skills they'll need to be successful. Our goal is to smooth the transition from foster care to independent living. We hope to ensure that our youth have the resources, knowledge, and opportunities they need to be successful in their next step in life.”

The Recruitment Peer Mentor structure is the recruitment effort used in the state of Idaho. This model engages local experienced foster/adopt/kinship families to meet with individuals and groups to talk about the role of foster/adopt/kinship (resource families). They assist Prospective Foster Parents through the foster care application and assessment process. Resource Peer Mentors (RPMs) have fostered many children and built skills to work with children and families from hard places.

Idaho Wednesday’s Child is a specialized recruitment program committed to decreasing the number of young people who ‘age out’ of foster care.

The Child Welfare Workforce Training & Development (CWWTD) Program is a part of FRTC at Eastern Washington University (EWU). We work in partnership with the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (IDHW) Child and Family Services Program (CFS) to train, coach, and mentor Idaho’s child welfare workforce. We believe that on-going training is critical to the development of a skilled workforce and to achieving outcomes of safety, permanency, and well-being for children and their families. We also believe that continual professional improvement is vital to worker satisfaction and long-term retention.