Foster Parent Training
This is a collection of on-going trainings to help educate and equip our foster caregivers to best serve our youth in care.
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Trust Based Relational Intervention Series:
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Emotional Contagion
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Co-Parenting: What Foster Parents Need to Know
Foster Parent
Support Groups
Charlie Health offers Free Parent Support Groups for parents, grandparents or guardians of teens, young adults, LGBTQIA+, Parent Support for Families of Color,
El Grupo de Cuidores en Espanol and Neurodivergent youth.
TLC (Tender Loving Caregivers) Association is a supportive community of foster, adoptive, relative/non-relative caregivers, and youth in independent living. They come together for monthly training sessions, support meetings, and special events designed to strengthen and empower families.
🔗 Visit www.tlcfamilies.org to learn more, become a member, and view upcoming meeting schedules.
📣 Join the conversation on Facebook: TLC Association, Inc
Community Resources & Helpful Links
This local nonprofit helps meet the tangible needs of children in foster care through their ECHO shops which allow children and families to get the items they need such as clothing, diapers, wipes, backpacks, hygiene products and more for free.
Find Help
Looking for resources or programs near you? Visit heartland.findhelp.com for a searchable database–simply enter your zip code to find programs and services near YOU!
Hope Florida connects people to local resources through a caring Hope Navigator who helps create a personalized path toward stability and independence. Support is available for single parents, youth aging out of foster care, people with disabilities, seniors, veterans, and more.
Early Learning Coalition of Florida's Heartland
The Early Learning Coalition (ELC) helps ensure young children in Charlotte, DeSoto, Hardee, and Highlands counties have access to high-quality early education programs. These programs offer caring teachers, creative experiences, and supportive environments that help children get ready for school success.
Early Learning Coalition of Polk County
The Early Learning Coalition of Polk County provides leadership, direction, and integrated resource management for quality services that support our vision of success for children. Their vision is that all children enter school healthy, ready and eager for lifelong learning with the collaborative support of parents, families, educators, and the community.
Quality Parenting Initiative (QPI)
QPI, the Quality Parenting Initiative, is a national movement for foster care change, made up of a network of states, counties and private agencies committed to ensuring that all children in care have excellent parenting and lasting relationships so they can thrive and grow.
Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI)
Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI®) is an attachment-based, trauma-informed intervention that is designed to meet the complex needs of vulnerable children. TBRI® uses Empowering Principles to address physical needs, Connecting Principles for attachment needs, and Correcting Principles to disarm fear-based behaviors. While the intervention is based on years of attachment, sensory processing, and neuroscience research, the heartbeat of TBRI® is connection.
Connect with Amberlee Rogers, Worthy & Known Family Project Program Director
Email: amberlee@worthyandknownfp.org | Phone: 863-443-0448
United Way's Children's Resource Center
This community-based learning and resource center provides classes, playgroups, workshops, developmental checkups, community activities, and support for parents and caregivers of children aged 0-6, as well as for expectant moms and dads. They strive to make childhood a happy, healthy, and wholesome experience for every child and parent in Polk County.
This vital service connects millions of people to help every year. To get expert, caring help, simply call 211 or visit 211.org
Check out our Resource Page with a comprehensive list of the providers we work with to serve children and families.