ABSTRACT
Training is important in understanding all dynamics existing in working with individual youth. Child welfare may have foster parents in need of a formal training on special education and/or educational planning for foster youth. During the information collection phase, action teams gathered information on training topics staff identified as a need. The National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice saw a need to develop training for juvenile justice about all adolescent development, modality, and treatment. Child welfare agencies maintain a training department that is most likely providing training to foster parents. It behooves the training team and/or the education staff (ES) to meet with the departmental staff to discuss what education training parents already receive and what the team and/or ES may add to this training. Cross-agency training will continue to be an important part of sustaining the improved coordination of educational planning.
