[This is a National Training and Development Curriculum (NTDC) Right-Time Training course.]

This theme helps adoptive parents understand the importance of having ongoing conversations with their children about their birth and adoption story. The theme discusses how empowering children with the missing pieces of their story can help them build trust in family relationships, help with healthy identity formation, and can lead to stronger connections with birth family members. In this theme, adoptive parents learn how to have on-going conversation with their children about their life story that is done in an inclusive, open fashion.

Course length: 20 minutes

Cost to register: FREE

Certificate: This course offers an attendance certificate only.

Recorded on November 19, 2021.

PLEASE NOTE - This course does NOT provide social work CE credits OR New York contact hours.