Leveraging the "Understanding Infant Adoption" Curriculum to Transform Clinical Care: A Train-the-Trainer Workshop for Adoption Professionals
This page is a description for a free live webinar scheduled December 10, 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_gs7wfyLfQbS-uqa2zzB44g.
In the fast-paced hospital setting, adoption knowledge gaps are not just an inconvenience—they pose real risks of unintentional coercion, unnecessary patient distress, and inadvertent legal exposure. Join us to learn more about the national Adoption-Sensitive Clinical Care (ASCC) initiative, a free training program designed to mitigate these information gaps and empower healthcare professionals. Webinar attendees will explore how ASCC equips medical staff to provide confident, compassionate, and ethically sound support to expectant parents considering adoption or implementing an adoption plan—and how adoption professionals can play a vital role in strengthening this continuum of care.
Jennifer Chambers, MD, MPH & TM, Medical Director and Pediatrician, The Adoption and Foster Care Clinic
Kelly Curry, LICSW-S, PIP, Director of Counseling Services and Clinical Social Worker/Therapist, The Adoption and Foster Care Clinic
Ryan Hanlon, PhD, MSW, President & CEO, National Council For Adoption
Kris Henneman, MSW, Vice President, Institute for Family and Community Development, Spaulding for Children
Tamarie Willis, PhD, MSW, Teaching Associate & Lecturer, University of Washington School of Social Work
Webinar length: 90 minutes
After attending this course, professionals will be able to…
- Recall findings from research into birth parent experiences, such as factors that influence satisfaction with adoption decision-making, stigma, and shame.
- Describe the importance of adoption-competent, trauma-informed clinical care for individual providers and across the hospital system.
- Identify common clinical knowledge gaps such as recognizing personal bias, using accurate and appropriate adoption language, and navigating complex ethical and legal challenges related to adoption in the hospital setting.
- Examine the Understanding Infant Adoption version 7 (UIA 7) curriculum, including a high-level outline of the core training, key changes that have been implemented for version 7, supplemental learning opportunities, and key resource materials.
- Determine how to leverage this free asynchronous, online learning, or fully customize the training for in-person or virtual agency or firm presentations, hospital Grand Rounds, and other purposes.
Course level: Beginning, Intermediate
Cost to register: FREE
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 1.5 continuing education credits.
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 on receiving CE credit please visit the FAQ tab.
This course does not offer credit for NJ or NY social workers. More information on continuing education credits is available here.
