101PD SAMPLEChapter 1 — Endings Done Well: the Craft the System Never Teaches Transitions, Reunification, and Enduring Connections — a 101PD training course. Training-hour acceptance is determined by your county or foster family agency. Confirm this course with your RFA worker before relying on it for required hours. This course is training, not legal or clinical advice; transition specifics are governed by the case's orders and the child's team. §1 The Premise — Every Placement Ends, and the Ending Is Curriculum This vertical's final course faces the fact the recruitment brochures soften: every placement ends — in reunification, in kinship or adoptive permanence, in a planned move, in an aging-out birthday, occasionally in a disruption nobody wanted — and this course's premise is that the ending is not the placement's aftermath but its final assignment: the last, largest lesson a household teaches. Why endings carry that weight, assembled from everything this vertical has taught: the children of this system are experts in bad endings — the abrupt removal, the trash-bag move, the goodbye that never happened, the adults who vanished — and their working models (the attachment course's wiring) hold endings as catastrophes: unexplained, unprocessed, and usually blamed on themselves; which means a single ending done well — prepared, honest, ritualized, with the connection's continuation demonstrated — is corrective at the level the wiring actually learns: it revises the template every future ending will be measured against, from the next placement to the adult relationships decades out. The reframe this premise demands of caregivers: households naturally experience a child's departure as the placement's failure or its grief-soaked tail — something to survive — and this course reframes it as practice at the vertical's highest difficulty: the transition is a project with phases, crafts, and deliverables (this chapter maps them), the household's own grief is real load handled with real equipment (§4 and the vertical's standing doctrine), and the measure of success is specific and reachable: the child leaves carrying the account (the attachment course's deposits — portable by design), the record (the file that travels), the connections (the relationships the ending was engineered to preserve), and the experience of one ending that was none of the things endings used to be. What the course covers, mapped to the endings that actually happen: the transition arc's craft in every direction (§2); reunification, the system's first-choice ending, done from the caregiver's side (§3); the household's own side of every ending (§4); the self-check (§5); then Chapter 2 — the moves between placements, the permanence conversions, the aging-out launch, the enduring-connections architecture, and the household's own continuation. One boundary, standing throughout: transitions are case decisions — the court and the team decide what happens and when; this course teaches how the household executes its side of whatever is decided, and the vertical's lane discipline (report flatly, advocate through channels, never argue the case in the kitchen) governs every page. The sentence to carry through both chapters: you cannot choose whether this placement ends; you