Pre-Adoption Courses
AdoptPrep–A required course that helps to prepare you for adopting and assists in transitioning the child in to your family. Topics covered include tips for meeting your child, naming your child, promoting attachment, and much more.
Beyond Basics–A required course, this course continues where AdoptPrep leaves off and goes into more details about what your child may be experiencing and how to assist in the child’s adjustment to family life.
Country-Specific Courses–These focus on the country from which you hope to adopt and covers understanding the cultural issues of the country, the children available for adoption, and the referral and adoption process of the country.
Great Expectations–What to expect when meeting your child and how to assist with their initial transition.
Lifebooks–How to create a Lifebook for your child, a scrapbook/picture book depicting your adoption journey, the child’s life before and after they join your family.
Pre- & Post-Adoption Courses
Baby Signs–How to communicate with your child when you don’t speak the same language or the child is pre-verbal.
Parenting with Love and Logic–This workshop offers an introduction of the material found in the book by Jim Fay and Foster Cline, and discusses a positive way to discipline that sets up clear and logical consequences to promote responsibility while demonstrating compassion and concern for the child.
Seven Core Issues of Adoption–This course goes into the seven basic issues that all members of the adoption triad confront: loss, grief, rejection, identity, shame and guilt, intimacy, and mastery and control.
Talking to Children about Adoption–This course helps parents to know ways to address adoption with their child at different ages and stages of development.
Two Families/Two Legacies–Focuses on realizing and understanding that your child will always have two heritages: one from their birth family and one from their adoptive family.
Post-Adoption Courses
ADHD–This course helps families understand Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder, the impact on the child, and ways to help the child compensate.
Parenting with Love and Logic–This course covers the material found in the book by Jim Fay and Foster Cline, and discusses a positive way to discipline that sets up clear and logical consequences to promote responsibility while demonstrating compassion and concern for the child. It is offered as an on-going six week class for post adoptive parents.