It will enhance the identity of foster parents as contributing members of society. The adult education system would have no problem at all workin with this target group. Flexible education and skill-based training models can be designed or adjusted, recogniaing proctitioners' current education and skills, or to inculcate or upgrade knowledge and skills where warranted. Formal educational infrastructures are in place in most jurisdictions to assist foster parents. Let them enter where other citizens get their education.
Associations can partner with educators and child welfare authorities.
Further, the associations should progress towards governing foster care practices through certification and a discipline process, following precedents set by trades, occupations and professions. It might take a paradigm shift in thinking to effect needed change. The pressure has to come from the grass roots and their own body politic. The fiscal argument that we cannot afford the cost of professionalinzing foster care is invalid and shortsighted. Society cannot afford not to allow it.