Vision Statement

Through CRAFFT, we are committed to helping families create and sustain a family/community environment that strengthens family relationships to promote the continued growth and development of healthy, productive children, families, and community.

Mission Statement

This family-focused training program provides families with educational and informational networks that promote their effectiveness in sustaining their families, and raising and parenting healthy and productive children.

CRAFFT promotes the safety, permanency, and well-being of children by training resource, adoptive, and foster families and by providing technical assistance and support to local departments of social services in their concerted efforts to meet the needs of children in the child welfare system.  The goals of CRAFFT are:

• To develop and implement, by designated areas, a uniform system of state-guided training and technical assistance for local departments of social services (LDSS), as they deliver pre- and in-service training to their resource, adoptive, and foster families (collectively referred to as resource families).

• To develop a core pre- and in-service training curriculum that is consistent throughout the state in both content and minimum requirements.

• To develop a training curriculum that allows for some variation area and/or local demographic differences and needs.

• To develop consistent and valid evaluation tools and to include needs assessment processes and post-training evaluations that will effectively target training needs and training benefits.  These tools must also reflect the outcomes that the training program is intended to produce.

• To provide an annual training event for resource parents, to be presented in all five designated areas of the state.

The CRAFFT program is currently conducting pilot trainings using the PRIDE curriculum.  In addition, various areas of the state are hosting CRAFFT Roundtables, designed to educate people on a variety of topics pertaining to CRAFFT, PRIDE, resource parenting, and child welfare as a whole.  Click here to find out more about Trainings and Roundtables being held in an area near you.

For more information, you may contact the Western Region CRAFFT Coordinator, Susan Rigney, at (540)831-7633 or the Piedmont Region CRAFFT Coordinator, Kathleen Miller, at (540)831-763.  Western and Piedmont Regional Coordinators may also be contacted toll-free at 1-866-881-9861.