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Fostering Idaho Training
Fostering Idaho Training provides all the pre-service and ongoing trainings required to...

Independent Living
Independent Living assists teens and families with children that are aging out of the foster care system...

Fostering Idaho
The Recruitment Peer Mentor structure is the recruitment effort used in the state of Idaho...

Wednesday's Child
Idaho Wednesday’s Child is a specialized recruitment program committed to decreasing the...
What We Do
Family Resource & Training
Center is a public entity that has long been a part of the Eastern
Washington University College of Social Sciences. FRTC was established as a partnership to support
foster children and foster families as well
as to provide the child welfare workforce with qualified and well trained
workers. FRTC has evolved over the last 24 years to become a well-established contractor
throughout the state of Idaho.
Family Resource & Training
Center’s central office, located in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and supporting office on the EWU Cheney campus, supports the many skilled employees and contractors who carry out
our vision and mission throughout the state of
Idaho. Because of the work we have done in providing
quality programs that train, recruit and retain, develop and support our foster
and birth families, FRTC has become an
established provider to the Idaho Child Welfare communities.
Currently, we have seven main programs
through which we serve our resource and birth families, children in care, and
the child welfare workforce.

Meet our staff:


Andrew Stinson
Acting Director

Shauna Wallace
Program Assistant

Jake Pehrson
Program Coordinator

Amy Wenzel
Program Assistant
