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Adoptive Parents
Overview
We offer online courses designed to prepare parents for raising an adopted child.
Our courses material covers:
- Bonding and Attachment
- Emotional Issues
- Multicultural and Transracial Adoption
- Medical Issues
- Separation, Loss and Grief
- Adopting the Traumatized Child
Our training was developed by social workers with many years of personal and professional adoption experience, and is geared to provide the information that successful adoptive families tell us they needed to know. Our objective in providing this training for you is to share the information we have gleaned through our years of practice and to enhance your understanding of your child, to suggest ways to meet the needs you identify, and to strengthen the bonds within your family. We offer help in decision making if you are thinking about adopting and don't know which way to go.
Our training is presented in an easy to understand, logical format with practical hand's-on tools that every family can use. Our training meets all Hague Requirements for international adoptions as well as training for domestic adoptions. Print your certificate as soon as you complete a course.
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Professionals
Overview
Our objective in providing this training for you is to share the information we have gleaned through our years of practice. Our hope for you is that this training will enhance your professional skills as you work with families. The training that you receive through these courses is the same as the training that your families receive.
You will note that we offer courses and bundles for both international and domestic adoptions. Some of the courses contain substantially the same information with just different focus depending on the type of adoption. For CEU credit, we recommend that you choose only one version.
Our training has been approved by the Alabama Board of Social Work Examiners for social workers and is generally accepted by other states and boards. Please check with your state or licensing board to be sure that you will receive credit for this training. It will probably be helpful in claiming CEUs if the Table of Contents for each module is printed out and attached to the Certificate of Completion.
Who we are
This training site was developed by three social workers whose combined experience in child welfare and adoption specialization totals more than 85 years. We are all Licensed Certified Social Workers and Private Independent Practitioners. Our varied experiences include serving as directors of child placing agencies, directors of public welfare agencies, statewide directors of public programs that recruit and train foster and adoptive families, and that provide support for families created through adoption.
Early in our careers, each of us was a child protective service worker and an adoption placement worker. We later supervised units that provided those services. In other positions, assigned to the public statewide office of adoption, we placed children, interviewed adult adoptees in search of birth families, and facilitated meetings between these adoptees and their families. We have worked with birthmothers as they explore and make adoptive decisions for their children. We have trained professionals and families in general issues of child welfare and in the specialty of adoption. One of us is an adoptive mother.
What Our Customers Are Saying
"I have to tell you that we thought the course was great. Actually, we wish we had that before we adopted our first child. Some of the topics were especially interesting and pertinent, such as attachment, medical and inter-cultural. Given the fact that we're adopting from China, the inter-racial dimension was very interesting." LS-Alabama
