The National Training and Development Curriculum for Foster and Adoptive Parents (NTDC) was funded through a five-year cooperative agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Children’s Bureau. This cooperative agreement was led by Spaulding for Children in close partnership with other agencies.
The NTDC curriculum was piloted in child welfare systems in seven sites (state, county, territory, or tribal nation) and one private agency that serves families who adopt children via the private domestic or intercountry process.
The curriculum design is intended to support three populations, including:
- families who foster, provide kinship care and/or adopt children from the child welfare system,
- families who adopt via the intercountry or private domestic process, and
- American Indian Alaska Native families who foster, provide kinship care and/or adopt children from the tribal child welfare system.
