Pride Digital Curriculum

Pride Digital Curriculum The PRIDE Digital Curriculum (PDC) provides a consistent, standardized, digital version of the PRIDE

04/08/2025

Get to know all about PRIDE!

Listen to our Program Coordinator Victoria Lloyd fill us in on the great work PRIDE seeks to do for adoption and foster care!

The new PRIDE Digital Curriculum is nearing completion! All the information, knowledge, and skills the PRIDE program has...
11/15/2024

The new PRIDE Digital Curriculum is nearing completion! All the information, knowledge, and skills the PRIDE program has delivered for years in a new updated format!

Stay tuned for more to come!

The PRIDE Program is guided by beliefs and principles, which serve as unifying themes.
08/12/2022

The PRIDE Program is guided by beliefs and principles, which serve as unifying themes.

The fourth and final level of competence is Skill Acquisition. Competency statements including ‘can do’, and ‘is able to...
08/04/2022

The fourth and final level of competence is Skill Acquisition. Competency statements including ‘can do’, and ‘is able to’, reflect this level. For example, ‘the foster parent can use reflective listening to help a child express his or her feelings in response to being separated from his or her family’.

The third level is Understanding How Knowledge and Skills Apply to the Job. How to use the information you’ve learned. F...
07/27/2022

The third level is Understanding How Knowledge and Skills Apply to the Job. How to use the information you’ve learned. For example, knowing how to assess a child through their stages of grief and help them through it.

For the second level, Knowledge/Understanding, foster parents must have comprehensive, factual information. A foster par...
07/25/2022

For the second level, Knowledge/Understanding, foster parents must have comprehensive, factual information. A foster parent who understands the stages of grieving would not only know what the stages are, but could interpret a child’s behavior as a normal reaction associated with a particular stage.

In addition to the hierarchy of competencies that foster parents need to develop, there is also a progression of learnin...
07/19/2022

In addition to the hierarchy of competencies that foster parents need to develop, there is also a progression of learning related to their performance of tasks. This progression consists of four levels of competencies, as defined by the Institute for Human Services.

The first level, Awareness, they become aware of why something is important to learn. A competency statement that reflects this desired level would state, for example, The foster parent is aware of the human need for connections and attachments. This awareness is critical to being able to understand the effects of separation and loss.

Whether you're looking into foster care or adoption, both require training on separation, attachment, maltreatment, tran...
06/28/2022

Whether you're looking into foster care or adoption, both require training on separation, attachment, maltreatment, transitioning children to new families and plenty more responsibilities. The combined pre-service training program teaches foster and adoptive parents the many similarities required and how to be the best in whichever role you find yourself in. Visit http://www.pridedigital.org/ for more info.

06/14/2022

The Parent Resources for Information, Development, and Education (PRIDE) is the result of a national cooperative effort. The program was developed through a multi-year project initiated by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. The project involved the collaboration of 14 state child welfare agencies, one private family foster care agency operating in several states, one foster parent association, two national resource centers, one foundation, and several universities and colleges.

See if your local child care agencies utilize the PRIDE method or get started learning it today.

The 14-step process is for the foster or adoptive parents who work with the agency staff to guide parents through the be...
06/06/2022

The 14-step process is for the foster or adoptive parents who work with the agency staff to guide parents through the beginning process of the PRIDE program. Learn more about the PRIDE process today. visit our page or http://www.pridedigital.org/ for more.

05/24/2022

The PRIDE Program has established the following five essential competency categories:

Protecting and nurturing children.

Meeting children’s developmental needs and addressing
developmental delays.

Supporting relationships between children and their families.

Connecting children to safe, nurturing relationships intended to last a lifetime.

Working as a member of a professional team.

These competencies drive the entire mutual assessment, selection, preparation, support, and development process of resource families.

Visit our page for more information!

05/19/2022

PRIDE stands for Parent Resources for Information, Development, and Education. The project involved the collaboration of 14 state child welfare agencies, one private family foster care agency operating in several states, one foster parent association, two national resource centers, one foundation, and several universities and colleges.

The program is based on the philosophy that the value of family life for children, however family is defined, is compelling. Learn more today at http://www.pridedigital.org/ or visit our page.

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