I am looking to see if there is a training program for children who will soon leave a residential facility into foster care or adoption to help them make the transition into a family. My wife and I are fostering two brothers [16 and 15] and having a great experience but feel that the boys were traumatized by being dumped into our house the night before each of them began their high school freshman year in two separate high schools. We would like to help such children avoid this kind of experience in the future [even though we had known one of the two boys for some eight months before they joined our household. I have worked professionally and academically for some 30 years in maternal and child development and have worked with a couple of residential facilities for substance abusing pregnant and post partum women and their children. I had directed an inner city outreach program for similar women with the workers coming from the community. By the way, we also have a 35 year old and a 32 year old son [what spacing!]. Bill Ward