Family Resource & Training Center
Strengthening child welfare systems through statewide program implementation, workforce development, and strategic partnerships.
Programs & Statewide Initiatives
FRTC develops and implements statewide initiatives that strengthen child welfare systems, support children and families, build workforce capacity, and respond to emerging needs through collaboration and innovation.
Fostering Idaho Partnership
Supports foster family recruitment, inquiry response, family and community engagement, and statewide partnerships that strengthen support for Idaho foster and kinship families.
Explore Workforce DevelopmentChild Welfare Workforce Training & Development
Provides professional training, learning opportunities, and workforce development for child welfare staff across Idaho.
ExploreOur Approach
Across our programs, partnerships, and initiatives, we apply consistent implementation practices, shared systems, and data-informed decision making to strengthen statewide coordination, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Preparing future child welfare professionals
FRTC provides trauma-responsive, community-engaged internship experiences that connect academic learning with meaningful practice across child welfare systems.
Through university partnerships, reflective supervision, applied projects, and multidisciplinary learning, students build practical competencies while exploring the roles that public agencies, courts, schools, behavioral health providers, law enforcement, and community organizations play in supporting children and families.
- Trauma-responsive field education
- Applied learning and individualized projects
- University partnerships and competency-based supervision
About the Family Resource & Training Center
The Family Resource & Training Center (FRTC) is a university-based partner operating within Eastern Washington University’s College of Professional Programs, in collaboration with the School of Social Work.
For more than 30 years, FRTC has supported child welfare systems through grant-funded initiatives focused on recruitment, training, and statewide program delivery. We work alongside public agencies and community partners to develop practical, policy-aligned approaches that strengthen supports for children, families, and professionals across Idaho.
Our role is to help translate strategy into implementation, ensuring programs are delivered with consistency, quality, and responsiveness to community needs.
While our work is rooted in Idaho, our partnerships and training capacity support broader learning and collaboration across the Pacific Northwest.