As adoptive parents, telling your child their adoption story can be challenging, as you strive to balance openness, sensitivity, and age-appropriate considerations. This session will provide guidance on how to navigate this delicate task, exploring approaches for engaging in open discussions about a child’s birth and adoption story throughout each stage of development. Through real-life examples, participants will gain insight on how to create an environment where ongoing conversations become a natural and empowering part of family life, fostering trust, identity formation, and deeper connections within the adoptive family and beyond.

This webinar will also be relevant to adoption professionals advising adoptive families on this issue.

Jayne Schooler - Program Coordinator for Foster Care and Adoption, Schooler Institute

Course length: 60 minutes

After attending this course, participants will be able to…
• Recall the importance of open communication about adoption within the adoptive family dynamic.
• Identify strategies for initiating age-appropriate discussions about a child's birth and adoption story.
• Describe methods to create a safe and empowering environment for ongoing conversations about adoption.
• Recognize the role of ongoing communication in supporting a child's identity formation within an adoptive family context.

Course level: Beginning

Cost to register: $15
If you are a NCFA member, look for your discount code in the membership portal.

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National Council For Adoption, #1804, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 04/13/2023 – 04/13/2026. Social workers completing this course receive 1 continuing education credit.

This webinar does not offer credit for NJ or NY social workers. For more information on receiving CE credit, please visit the FAQ tab. For additional information on the instructor, please visit bit.ly/NCFASchooler.

Recorded on 9/3/24.