WHAT IS PRIDE?

PRIDE COMPETENCY CATEGORIES

1. Protecting and nurturing children.

2. Meeting children’s developmental needs and addressing developmental delays.

3. Supporting relationships between children and their families.

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

5. Working as a member of a professional team.

Our Goals

1. Meet the protective; developmental, cultural, and permanency needs of children placed with foster families, and adoptive families.

2. Strengthen families, whether they are families of origin, blended families, extended or kinship families, foster families, adoptive families, or members of a tribe or clan.

3. Strengthen the quality of family foster care and adoption services by providing a standardized, structured framework for pre-service training and mutual assessment: for foster parent in-service training, and for ongoing professional development.