KEEP (Keeping Foster and Kinship Parents Supported and Trained)
A theoretically based, developmentally sensitive parent-training intervention for foster/kinship parents with children, age 4-12, designed to reduce children’s problem behaviors by strengthening foster/kinship parents’ skills. KEEP is an adaptation of Treatment Foster Care Oregon (TFCO), formerly Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC), a program that has been used to train foster care providers for adolescents who are referred by the juvenile justice system as an alternative to placement in group or residential care. KEEP uses specific components of TFCO with foster and kinship parents who work in state child welfare systems. The goal is to reduce child problem behaviors through strengthening foster parents’ skills. The focus is on increasing foster parents’ positive reinforcement relative to the amount of discipline used.
Katie Bennett
KEEP Director of Implementation
Oregon Social Learning Center
10 Shelton McMurphey Boulevard
Eugene, OR 97401
Phone: 541.485.2711
E-mail: keep@oslc.org
Developer:
Patricia Chamberlain
Oregon Social Learning Center
10 Shelton McMurphey Boulevard
Eugene, OR 97401
Phone: 541.485.2711
E-mail: keep@oslc.org
