NCFA LMS - Course list

CONFERENCE WORKSHOP

"The Talk": How to Speak with Children About Race and Adoption

Race and adoption are challenging subjects individually. Many professionals (and parents) feel challenged by discussions of both of these sensitive subjects. This session aims to give participants tools to address these big conversations.

RIGHT TIME TRAININGS

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.

ParentsFreeRight Time Trainings

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.

FREE WEBINAR

Adoption 101

In this webinar, NCFA staff provide answers to questions that are frequently asked by prospective adoptive parents. This webinar is appropriate for those families that have not yet begun an adoption, or those in the early stages of the process.

FREE WEBINAR

Adoption of Children with Special Needs

In partnership with staff from agency member Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children, this webinar focuses on providing relevant information about special needs adoption, so professionals and parents can make educated decisions for all involved.

ProfessionalsParentsFree

PARENTS, PROFESSIONALS

Adoption Options for Members of the Military

This training focuses on how the unique nature of military life can lead many to believe that adoption is not an option for a military family. When in fact, it has been a very positive and successful way for many children to have permanent, loving homes.

ProfessionalsParentsCEs

PARENTS AND PROFESSIONALS

Ask the Author – Down Syndrome Adoption

Watch or listen in as NCFA’s Ryan Hanlon sits down with Stephanie Thompson from the National Down Syndrome Adoption Network and author of the July 2021 issue of the Adoption Advocate, to discuss adoption of children with Down Syndrome.

PARENTS

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.

PROFESSIONALS

Best Practices in Home Study Assessment

From discussions around special needs or previous trauma, to race and culture- there are a myriad of areas where preparation is critical. In order to do all of this well, social workers examine the best practices that undergird the home study assessment.

ProfessionalsCEs

CONFERENCE WORKSHOP

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.

RIGHT TIME TRAININGS

Building Children’s Resilience

The purpose of this module is to help foster and adoptive parents understand concepts and definitions related to enhancing resiliency in children who have experienced loss, separation, or other traumatic experiences.

ParentsFreeRight Time Trainings

RIGHT TIME TRAININGS

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.

ParentsFreeRight Time Trainings

RIGHT TIME TRAININGS

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.

ParentsFreeRight Time Trainings

PARENTS, PROFESSIONALS

Contemporary Realities in Search and Reunion

This webinar centered on the current dynamics of search and reunion across domestic and international adoption, and provided clinical guidance to professionals as they prepare and support all of those involved in this process.

ProfessionalsParentsCEs

MEMBERS ONLY

Continuity of Care: Resources and Tools for Post Adoption Services and Family Supports in the time of COVID-19

Harmony staff talk about ways they have adapted their methods of delivering services and supports to this family in response to COVID-19.

MEMBERS ONLY

Cybersecurity for Adoption Professionals

This webinar discussed cybersecurity concepts that nonprofit leaders and adoption professionals should understand to be able to advocate for and support cybersecurity efforts within their organizations.

ProfessionalsMembers Only

RIGHT TIME TRAININGS

Education

The purpose of this module is to help foster and adoptive parents understand educational considerations that may need to be put in place for children who have experienced loss, separation or other traumatic experiences.

ParentsFreeRight Time Trainings

FREE WEBINAR

Empowering the Healthcare Community to Serve the Adoption Community

Rebeca Vahle, Executive Director of the groundbreaking Family to Family Support Network, shares what happens in communities that converge adoption and healthcare, and how you can bring the benefits of doing so to your community.

ProfessionalsFree

FREE WEBINAR

Ethical Guidelines for Supporting Families at Risk of Disruption or Dissolution

A 2-part series on ethical guidelines for supporting children and families to predict and prevent adoption dissolution or disruption through education and support and how to safely and ethically transition a child to a new home when it is necessary.

ProfessionalsFree

CONFERENCE WORKSHOP

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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