You can become a Foster Parent with Boys & Girls Homes this fall! Here are 3 online and in-person classes you can join in our area beginning this week!
CLASS 1 -- Cumberland County and surrounding areas
Boys and Girls Homes of NC
Teaching Family Model – Tentative Schedule
The tentative schedule for the Cumberland and surrounding areas Teaching Family Model of Care is listed below. I look forward to seeing each of you in class. My contact information is listed below. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. The location of the class is Partnership for Children Building, 351 Wagner Drive, Fayetteville, NC 28303. Information session, as well as all classes, are scheduled to begin at 6 pm. The information session, Meetings 1 and 2, and Meetings 10 and 11, as well as CPR will be in person at the address listed above.
Date Day Session Name of Class Participants
Date Day Session Topic Platform/Location
9/4/25 Th Info Road to Becoming a Foster Parent In Person
9/15/25 M 1 & 2 Process of Becoming a Foster Parent
Foster Care Overview and Handbook In Person
9/18/25 Th 3 Understanding the Children and Families We Serve Virtual (Teams)
9/22/25 M 4 Understanding Trauma Virtual (Teams)
9/25/25 Th 5 Understanding/Attachment, Grief & Loss Virtual (Teams)
9/29/25 M 6 Understanding/Working with Birth Families Virtual (Teams)
10/2/25 Th 7 Understanding/Impact of Fostering Virtual (Teams)
10/6/25 M 8 & 9 Parenting/Model Overview, Structured Environment, Learning Theory Virtual (Teams) Parenting Service Planning
10/9/25 Th 10 Parenting/Teaching Interaction Lens In Person
(Ashlyn-Co-Trainer)
10/13/25 M 11 Parenting/Motivation System Lens In-Person
(Ashlynn-Co-Trainer)
10/16/25 Th 12 Tying it all Together Virtual
10/20/25 M CPR In Person
Contact
Margaret Williams-Gaye l
910-214-5574
351 Wagner Drive, Ste 125
Fayetteville, NC 28303
308 Switchback Street
Knightdale, NC 27545
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CLASS 2 -- Lake Waccamaw, Columbus, Brunswick and surrounding areas
Boys & Girls Homes of NC
Fall TFM Training Classes
Below is the Foster and/or Adoptive Parent Training Schedule. Classes will be held in the evenings from 6-9pm. At The Town of Brunswick Town Hall, 40 Poplar Street, Brunswick NC
TFM TRAINING SCHEDULE
Date: Meeting: Topic:
10/7 Meeting 1 Welcome / Family & Therapeutic Foster Care
10/9 Meeting 2 BGH Foster Care Overview
10/14 Meeting 3 Development & Trauma
10/16 Meeting 4 Trauma, Sexual Abuse, Mental Health, Substance Disorders
10/21 Meeting 5 Attachment, Grief & Lost
10/23 Meeting 6 Working with Birth Families
10/27 Meeting 7 Impact of Foster Care on the Foster Family
10/29 Meeting 8 Lens: Structured Environment & Learning Theory
11/3 Meeting 9 Service Planning Lens
11/6 Meetings 10 Teaching Interactions Lens
11/10 Meeting 11 Motivation Systems Lens
11/12 Meeting 12 Overview, Mutual Selection & Graduation
11/13 CPR/First Aid
*An Informational Meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 30 @ 6pm in the Therapeutic Foster Care Office—104 Old East Hwy 74/76, Lake Waccamaw, NC. This meeting is not a requirement, but STRONGLY suggested to attend.
Lytonia Alford
Foster Care Licensing Worker
Boys & Girls Homes of NC, Inc. lytonia.alford@bghnc.org
910-445-0097
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CLASS 3 -- Jacksonville and surrounding areas
Boys & Girls Homes of NC
Below is the schedule of the next Boys & Girls Homes of NC Foster and/or Adoptive Parent Teaching Family Model classes being held from 6-9pm on Monday and Thursday evenings.
They will be located at: Centerview Baptist Church 1165 Piney Green Rd. Jacksonville, NC 28546
Please remember to bring food J
TEACHING FAMILY MODEL TRAINING SCHEDULE
Date: Session: Topic:
11/3/2025 Session 1 Deciding/ Dynamics of Foster Care, Referral Process, Mutual
Selection, Licensing Process, & Training Expectations (In-person)
11/6/2025 Session 2 Deciding/ Roles, Responsibilities, Client Rights, FP
Handbook (In-person)
11/10/2025 Session 3 Understanding/ Development & Trauma (Virtual)
11/13/2025 Session 4 Understanding/ Causes of Trauma, Sexual Abuse, Mental
Health, & Substance Abuse (Virtual)
11/17/2025 Session 5 Understanding/ Attachment, Grief & Loss (Virtual)
11/20/2025 Session 6 Understanding/ Working with Birth Parents (Virtual)
11/24/2025 Session 7 Understanding/Impact of Fostering (Virtual)
12/1/2025 Session 8 Parenting/ Model Overview, Structured Environment
(Virtual)
12/4/2025 Session 9 Parenting/ Service Planning (Virtual)
12/8/2025 Session 10-12 Parenting/ Teaching Interactions (In-person)
12/11/2025 CPR (In-person)
Hope to see you there!
Crystal Wooten
Licensing Social Worker
Boys & Girls Homes of NC, Inc.
crystal.wooten@bghnc.org
(910)320-4118 (cell)
