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The Butte College Foster/Kinship Care Education Program is designed to provide training for Foster parents, Kinship care providers and community members so that they may meet the changing and increasingly challenging needs of youth and families. The program utilizes many different types of training that satisfies licensing and continuing education requirements of both the State and the Counties of Butte and Glenn. Classes are free and open to everyone! 

Parents seeking emotional support please call the National Parent Helpline®: 1-855-427-2736 (1-855-427-2736) or www.nationalparenthelpline.org

The Parenting Support Group meets every Wednesday at 10:30 am to 12:00 pm at Harmony House in Orland. 

This guide designed to help you understand what Facebook is and how to use it safely. With it, you will be better informed and able to communicate effectively with young Facebook users in your life. That's important because 1) if something goes wrong, we want our children to come to us and 2) as the Internet becomes increasingly social and mobile, a parent’s guidance and support are ever more key to young people’s well-being in social media and technology.

The intent of this booklet is to summarize into one document the best antibullying practices and strategies as they pertain to students with developmental disabilities, compiled from dozens of articles, manuals, and curricula.