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Postadoption Training
Resources address curricula and materials offering postadoption training to adoptive families on topics such as talking about adoption, grief and loss, the use of lifebooks, transracial parenting, and more. Resources include State and local examples.
All in the Family: Achieving Excellence in Adoption
Child Welfare League of America (2004)
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Includes proceedings and PowerPoint presentations prepared for the Achieving Excellence in Adoption conference in November 2004.
Adoption Learning Partners
Provides online courses for adoptive parents on a number of topics, including helping children cope with grief and loss, creating lifebooks, understanding attachment, and more.
FAS/Special Needs Parent Training and Support Group Curriculum: "Parenting Your Porcupine" Series
Rathbun (2002)
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Addresses behavior patterns of children with fetal alcohol syndrome, looks at its effects and symptoms, provides information on diagnosis and resolution, and includes information on environmental accommodations.
Foster Parent College: Training for Adoptive, Kinship and Foster Parents
Provides online, interactive courses for resource families and examines topics of common concern to parents, such as running away, sexualized behavior, sleep problems, fire-setting, and anger.
Leading Foster and Adoptive Parent Support Groups: A Guide for Parents
Lewis, Dalbotten, Kjelland, & Spelman (Eds.) (2nd ed., 2003)
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Provides information on developing social support groups for foster and adoptive parents to strengthen their network of support and to positively impact foster parent retention as well as the lives of children in foster and adoptive care.
Parenting a Child Who Has Been Sexually Abused: A Training Programme for Foster Carers and Adopters
Hellett & Simmonds (2003)
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Presents a skills development course for the adoptive and foster parents of children who have been sexually abused.
Post-Adoption Training for Community Service Providers: An Adoption Training Curriculum
Adoption Exchange (2003)
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Lists considerations for providing postadoption support to adoptive families.
Supporting Brothers and Sisters: Creating a Family by Birth, Foster Care and Adoption
Keck (2005)
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Presents a 6-hour curriculum designed to assist parents and professionals in minimizing the effects of a sibling's mental health issues on the existing children in the family.
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North American Council on Adoptable Children
Lists training topics provided by the North American Council on Adoptable Children that are available to foster and adoptive parents, adoption professionals, and parent support group leaders.
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State and local examples
ADHD: A Guide for Families: 2.0 Hour Training Course
Alaska Center for Resource Families (2006)
Features a video and accompanying booklet developed to help parents understand attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Includes information on common signs of the disorder, treatment options, strategies for supporting school success, and working with teachers and doctors as a team.
Child Welfare Training
Institute for Human Services
Provides training for managers, supervisors, caseworkers, and foster/adoptive parents in Ohio on a variety of topics.
The Maine Post-Adoption Resource Guide
Child Welfare Training Institute (2005)
Provides a descriptive list of the services and information most often needed by adoptive families in Maine.
Missouri AdoptCare Network Training: Building a Network of Professionals Ready to Serve Missouri's Adoptive Families
Adoption Exchange & Missouri AdoptCare Network (2003)
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Promotes awareness of issues for adopted children and their adoptive parents.
My Brother, My Sister: Sibling Relations in Adoption and Foster Care
Kupecky (2005)
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Provides an overview of the reasons for placing siblings separately, the benefits of joint placements, and strategies for promoting contact with siblings living in different homes.
Oregon Post Adoption Resource Center Training
Lists Statewide training for Oregon DHS adoptive and assisted guardianship families.
Post-Legal Adoption Services Together Program
Village for Families and Children, Inc. (2002)
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Describes the activities funded by an Adoption Opportunities grant to support adoptive families and increase awareness of the needs of children seeking permanency in Connecticut. Services to families include crisis intervention, educational workshops, support groups facilitated by a social worker, and a directory of community resources for adoptive families.
Practical Parenting for Adolescents 12 to 17 Years
Pennsylvania Child Welfare Training Program (2000)
Provides information on practical parenting approaches for adolescents, including positive discipline techniques and best practice standards for parenting adolescent children.
Practical Parenting for School Age Children 6 to 11 Years
Pennsylvania Child Welfare Training Program (2000)
Provides information on practical parenting approaches for school-age children, including positive discipline techniques and best practice standards for parenting school-age children.
Resource Guide and Training Manual for Adoptive Parent Paraprofessional
Ennis Center for Children, Inc. (2001)
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Contains guidelines for adoptive parents serving as paraprofessionals for the Michigan-based Ennis Center for Children, Inc. postadoption services program.
SNAP Professional Tape Series
Children's Center (2002)
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Designed to educate parents in Clark County, Washington, about the cognitive functioning of children who were exposed to alcohol in utero.
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