This page is a description for a free live webinar scheduled July 30, 2025 from 1-2:30pm Eastern Time. If you'd like to register for the live webinar, you can do so here: https://adoptioncouncil.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zqjSaRSpSFOeUHR9A_2cOg.

This session will explore how adoption professionals can use self-assessment tools to support meaningful self-reflection among pre-adoptive and adoptive parents. Participants will learn how to utilize tools that promote caregiver engagement, insight, and self-discovery. The session will offer strategies for helping parents assess their strengths and identify opportunities for growth across key adoptive parent competencies. This practical guidance will not only strengthen pre-adoption assessment and approval processes, but will also provide foundations for long-term adoptive parent growth and learning.

Stephanie Hodge Wolfe, MSW, LSW, LSFW
Founder and Principal, The Academy for Child Welfare Practice, LLC

Webinar length: 90 minutes

After attending this recorded webinar, professionals will be able to:
• Describe how self-reflection can enhance caregiver insight, readiness, and long-term capacity to parent.
• Give examples of key adoptive parent competencies.
• Explain strategies for tailoring training and support to address pre-adoptive families' identified areas for growth.
• Identify ways to strengthen pre-adoptive parent training processes to promote long-term caregiver development and placement stability.

Course level: Beginning, Intermediate
Cost to register: FREE
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National Council For Adoption is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0681. Social workers completing this course receive 1.5 contact hours.

In order to receive their contact hours, attendees must participate in the entirety of the webinar training, have their attendance verified and complete a course evaluation. Upon completing these items, attendees will receive their contact hours certificate of credit to the email address provided at registration.

The live webinar will also include an interactive time where attendees can submit questions for response in real-time. To participate in this live webinar, attendees must have the Zoom application downloaded to their device.

Please note that NY contact hours will only be offered for the live webinar. For more information, please visit the FAQ tab. For additional information on the instructors please visit https://bit.ly/NCFAHodgeWolfe.