NTDC Preservice and Trauma Training

Register for NTDC Training now if a child has already been placed in your home.

The National Training and Development Curriculum for Foster and Adoptive Parents (NTDC), formerly known as PRIDE, was funded through a five-year cooperative agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, and Children’s Bureau. This cooperative agreement was led by Spaulding for Children in close partnership with other agencies.

The Goals of Training are:

NTDC is a comprehensive curriculum that tackles separation, loss, grief, trauma, and differences of race and culture in substitute caregiving. This cutting-edge resource offers adoptive, kinship, and foster parents culturally relevant and flexible education to empower them over the course of time and at the right time. Informed by the personal experiences of members of foster, adoptive, and kinship families, the NTDC content ensures that parenting strategies are practical, relevant, and relatable.

“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked, and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for is the greatest poverty.”

- Mother Teresa