CONFERENCE WORKSHOP

Adoption & Safe Families Act (ASFA) Panel Discussion

  • A panel discussion will provide legislative and policy history of the Adoption & Safe Families Act (ASFA), practical impact on states’ child welfare systems, and analysis of the current status of ASFA.
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The Impact of Nationwide Advertising

  • While online marketing expanded the opportunity for adoption professionals to gain an audience with expectant mothers nationwide, the practice of advertising beyond the geographic bounds of one's professional license raises ethical questions and concerns.
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Ethically Avoiding Adoption Agency and Attorney Liability

  • An interactive review of the case law and ethics opinions against adoption agencies and attorneys and an overview of ethical best practices to avoid liability will be included.
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Blocked Care: Helping Parents Regain Compassion

  • In this presentation, learn to recognize the nine signs of blocked care and what parents need to regain compassion.
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LGBTQ Cultural Competency for Adoption Professionals

  • Detailed definitions and language usage are discussed. Designed as challenging to assumptions and implicit bias that may accompany the use of language and definitions that can impede compassionate and quality interactions.
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Risk Management for Adoption Service Providers

  • Presenters review best practices in risk management and related accreditation requirements and share basic tools that can aid in risk management activities.
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Special Considerations for Adopted Adolescents

  • This workshop will help agency personnel understand the special challenges of adopted teens as they transition into adulthood, particularly with sense of self, attachment and sexuality.
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Race, Identity Formation, and Adoption

  • In this session, you will learn about the importance of and strategies for ensuring that children have every opportunity to grow up secure in their connection to their community of origin, and with insights about forming healthy identities for themselves.
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Inclusive Family Support Model

  • Adoption agencies have a responsibility to assist adoptive parents to facilitate open adoptions for the positive wellbeing of adoptees. This session provides an explanation of the Inclusive Family Support Model, highlighting the four quadrants of openness
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Trauma in the Attachment Relationship

  • This training dives into the intergenerational effects of complex trauma within the attachment relationship, with specific consideration for prenatal and preverbal trauma.
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Knowing the Unknowable

  • Speaking on behalf of a post adoption department, we explore the evolution of “positive” adoption language and discuss tools that allow us to identify and evaluate Adoptee empowered practice.
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Supporting Families Through Kinship Adoption

  • This workshop provides the essential tools needed for professionals to work effectively with parents to increase their understanding of kinship adoption and deepen their attachment to their children.
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Best Practices in Financing Adoption

  • NCFA and Kelly Ellison from Your Adoption Finance Coach are pleased to offer this FREE webinar for prospective adoptive parents, highlighting the best practices for financing an adoption. Families will receive practical tips, tools, and expert advice.
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A Birthmother Speaks: Reframing and Normalizing Adoption in Communities of Color

  • Renee Alexander, a birthmother at 16, shares her deeply personal adoption experience, and highlights how the complexities, decision-making and emotions around adoption transcend generational differences.
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Post Adoption Connection Center

  • This presentation details Nightlight Christian Adoptions’ Post Adoption Connection Center services to their clients and specifically sharing their crisis response process.
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Child Sexual Abuse: What Adoptive Families Need to Know

  • This training provides information about sexual abuse prevalence, dynamics and offender characteristics, as well as about how children talk about it and how parents can respond to a child who is disclosing sexual abuse or exhibiting problematic behaviors.
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RIGHT TIME TRAININGS

Intercountry Adoption Medical Considerations

  • The purpose of this module is to help foster and adoptive parents understand the purpose of pre-placement referral medical review consultations.
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Accessing Services and Supports

  • The purpose of this module is to help foster and adoptive parents understand and normalize the need to ask for services and the importance of being a life-long learner.
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Building Parental Resilience

  • The purpose of this module is to help foster and adoptive parents understand the importance of self-care and practical ideas how to do it.
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Common Feelings Associated with Being Adopted

  • The purpose of this module is to help foster and adoptive parents in their understanding of common feelings that children can have that are associated with being adopted.
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