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.

CONFERENCE WORKSHOP

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.

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.

PROFESSIONALS

Adoption After Infertility

This presentation provides information for parents and professionals on identifying families' needs and barriers, assessing adoption readiness, dispelling common adoption myths, and developing aftercare plans.

ProfessionalsCEs

PROFESSIONALS

Adoption Competence

This presentation discusses how mental health and child welfare professionals must possess not only the foundations for competent clinical practice, but a thorough understanding of the specific issues related to adoption.

ProfessionalsCEs

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 presentation discusses the distinct aspects of adoption within military families, including important considerations for military adoptive families, next steps for those considering adoption, and guidance to agencies on working with this community.

ProfessionalsParentsCEs

PROFESSIONALS

An Adoption Professional's Guide to School-Based Support

This presentation focuses on factors affecting an adopted child's academics, including early childhood trauma and deprivation, age at adoption, poor nutrition, cognitive development and attachment.

ProfessionalsCEs

ADOPTION PROFESSIONALS

An Adoption Professional’s Guide: Preparing Families for Adoption (Live Webinar: 11/1/22)

This presentation explores the resources adoption professionals can offer families to prepare them for adoption and support them post-adoption.

ProfessionalsCEs

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.

PROFESSIONALS

Autism and Adoption

This presentation informs adoption professionals about available resources and techniques to help communicate with children on the autism spectrum about issues like how and why they joined the family, who their birth family members are.

ProfessionalsCEs

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

In this presentation, social workers examine the 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.

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

PROFESSIONALS, PARENTS

Child Sexual Abuse: What Adoptive Families Need to Know

This presentation provides information about sexual abuse prevalence, dynamics and offender characteristics, how children talk about it, and how parents can respond to a child who is disclosing sexual abuse or exhibiting problematic sexual behaviors.

ProfessionalsParentsCEs

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

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