Parents as Tender Healers (PATH)
Topic Areas
Child Welfare System Relevance Level
High
Topic Areas
Child Welfare System Relevance Level
High
Program Overview
PATH is a ten-week curriculum developed to train prospective foster parents. Sessions are intended to help parents decide whether fostering or adoption is appropriate for them. Sessions address:
- How resource families differ from birth families
- How and why children in the welfare system develop survival behaviors
- The different roles of birth, legal, and caregiving parents
- Characteristics of successful resource families
- The types of abuse and neglect experienced within the child welfare system, survival behaviors developed, and the emotional issues underlying these behaviors
- The impact of separation and trauma on children, and the importance of emotional attachment
- Understanding issues faced by children in transition, and identifying existing and future family strengths and support
- Tools and techniques to help children develop attachment
- Disciplinary techniques for children who have experienced trauma
The final session consists of a panel discussion with experienced Resource parents and children.
Program Overview
PATH is a ten-week curriculum developed to train prospective foster parents. Sessions are intended to help parents decide whether fostering or adoption is appropriate for them. Sessions address:
- How resource families differ from birth families
- How and why children in the welfare system develop survival behaviors
- The different roles of birth, legal, and caregiving parents
- Characteristics of successful resource families
- The types of abuse and neglect experienced within the child welfare system, survival behaviors developed, and the emotional issues underlying these behaviors
- The impact of separation and trauma on children, and the importance of emotional attachment
- Understanding issues faced by children in transition, and identifying existing and future family strengths and support
- Tools and techniques to help children develop attachment
- Disciplinary techniques for children who have experienced trauma
The final session consists of a panel discussion with experienced Resource parents and children.
Contact Information
Spaulding for Children
Spaulding for Children
Contact Information
Spaulding for Children
Spaulding for Children
Logic Model
Logic Model
Program Delivery
Homework
This program does not include a homework component.
Languages
Parents as Tender Healers (PATH) has materials available in the following languages other than English:
For information on which materials are available in this language, please check on the program's website or contact the program representative (contact information is listed in this page).
Program Delivery
Homework
This program does not include a homework component.
Languages
Parents as Tender Healers (PATH) has materials available in the following languages other than English:
For information on which materials are available in this language, please check on the program's website or contact the program representative (contact information is listed in this page).
Manuals and Training
Manual Information
There is not a manual that describes how to deliver this program.
Training Information
There is no training information available for this program.
Manuals and Training
Manual Information
There is not a manual that describes how to deliver this program.
Training Information
There is no training information available for this program.
Relevant Published, Peer-Reviewed Research
- There are currently no published, peer-reviewed research studies on outcomes with the appropriate target population for the topic area(s) in which Parents as Tender Healers has been reviewed.
Relevant Published, Peer-Reviewed Research
- There are currently no published, peer-reviewed research studies on outcomes with the appropriate target population for the topic area(s) in which Parents as Tender Healers has been reviewed.
Topic Areas
Child Welfare System Relevance Level
High
Topic Areas
Child Welfare System Relevance Level
High
Program Overview
PATH is a ten-week curriculum developed to train prospective foster parents. Sessions are intended to help parents decide whether fostering or adoption is appropriate for them. Sessions address:
- How resource families differ from birth families
- How and why children in the welfare system develop survival behaviors
- The different roles of birth, legal, and caregiving parents
- Characteristics of successful resource families
- The types of abuse and neglect experienced within the child welfare system, survival behaviors developed, and the emotional issues underlying these behaviors
- The impact of separation and trauma on children, and the importance of emotional attachment
- Understanding issues faced by children in transition, and identifying existing and future family strengths and support
- Tools and techniques to help children develop attachment
- Disciplinary techniques for children who have experienced trauma
The final session consists of a panel discussion with experienced Resource parents and children.
Program Overview
PATH is a ten-week curriculum developed to train prospective foster parents. Sessions are intended to help parents decide whether fostering or adoption is appropriate for them. Sessions address:
- How resource families differ from birth families
- How and why children in the welfare system develop survival behaviors
- The different roles of birth, legal, and caregiving parents
- Characteristics of successful resource families
- The types of abuse and neglect experienced within the child welfare system, survival behaviors developed, and the emotional issues underlying these behaviors
- The impact of separation and trauma on children, and the importance of emotional attachment
- Understanding issues faced by children in transition, and identifying existing and future family strengths and support
- Tools and techniques to help children develop attachment
- Disciplinary techniques for children who have experienced trauma
The final session consists of a panel discussion with experienced Resource parents and children.
Contact Information
Spaulding for Children
Spaulding for Children
Contact Information
Spaulding for Children
Spaulding for Children
Logic Model
Logic Model
Program Delivery
Homework
This program does not include a homework component.
Languages
Parents as Tender Healers (PATH) has materials available in the following languages other than English:
For information on which materials are available in this language, please check on the program's website or contact the program representative (contact information is listed in this page).
Program Delivery
Homework
This program does not include a homework component.
Languages
Parents as Tender Healers (PATH) has materials available in the following languages other than English:
For information on which materials are available in this language, please check on the program's website or contact the program representative (contact information is listed in this page).
Manuals and Training
Manual Information
There is not a manual that describes how to deliver this program.
Training Information
There is no training information available for this program.
Manuals and Training
Manual Information
There is not a manual that describes how to deliver this program.
Training Information
There is no training information available for this program.
Relevant Published, Peer-Reviewed Research
- There are currently no published, peer-reviewed research studies on outcomes with the appropriate target population for the topic area(s) in which Parents as Tender Healers has been reviewed.
Relevant Published, Peer-Reviewed Research
- There are currently no published, peer-reviewed research studies on outcomes with the appropriate target population for the topic area(s) in which Parents as Tender Healers has been reviewed.
Date CEBC Staff Last Reviewed Research: September 2025
Date Program's Staff Last Reviewed Content: July 2007
Date Originally Loaded onto CEBC: March 2011