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.
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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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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.
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Adoption and the Law

  • A webinar for Adoption Professionals on Preparing, Educating, and Supporting Adoptive Families
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Adoption Finance 101

  • NCFA and Your Adoption Finance Coach are pleased to offer this FREE webinar for prospective adoptive parents with tips, tools, and strategies for financing an adoption.
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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.
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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.
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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.

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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.
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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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CONFERENCE WORKSHOP

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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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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Communications for Adoption Professionals

  • This course offers three 90-minute pre-recorded webinars on communications for adoption professionals with experts from several organizations sharing tips and resources on building and interacting with your community.
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Contemporary Realities in Search and Reunion

  • The discussion will center on the current dynamics of search and reunion across domestic and international adoption, and providing clinical guidance to professionals as they prepare and support all of those involved in this process.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Family Dynamics

  • The purpose of this module is understand the impact of fostering/adopting on primary relationships (marriage, children already in  the home and extended family).
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Fees, Finances, and Families

  • Kelly Ellison equips adoption professionals with the right tools, information and strategies for supporting prospective adoptive parents who are unsure how they can meet the financial costs of the adoption process.
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