Adoptive Parent Training

Our Adoptive Parent Training eLearning series delves deep into the necessary knowledge and skills needed to prepare yourself with infant adoption. With the help of trained professionals, this is a MUST for potential adoptive parents.

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Course Curriculum

1. Welcome to Adoption U
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1. You Have Choices!
2. Adoption Agencies
3. Adoption Attorneys
4. Adoption Consultants/Educators
5. Adoption Facilitators
6. Foster Care to Adoption
7. Choosing the Right Adoption Professional
8. Adoption Professionals Pros and Cons
9. I Want to Adopt. Now What? Quiz
1. Adoption Expectations Intro
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2. Unrealistic vs. Realistic Adoption Expectations
3. Common Adoption Fears
4. Risks of Adoption
5. Medical Issues
6. Adoption Disruption
7. Financial Risk
8. Adoption Expectations and the Adoption Process Quiz
1. Understanding Adoption Processes Intro
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2. Termination of Birth Mother Rights
3. Termination of Birth Father Rights
4. Requirement of Consent
5. The Best Interests of the Child Standard
6. The Confidential Nature of Adoption Proceedings
7. The Permanent Nature of Adoption & ICPC
8. Indian Child Welfare (ICWA)
9. Types of Adoption
10. Understanding Adoption Processes Quiz
1. What is a Home Study?
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2. What Does a Home Study Include?
3. Healthy Statement/Health Report and Income and Healthy Coverage Statements
4. Background Checks, Autobiographical Statements, and References
5. Home Visits
6. Home Study Timing
7. Home Study Quiz
1. Introduction to Adoption Profile Books
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2. Profile Book Specifics
3. How do you Make your Adoption Profile Book Stand Out?
4. How do you make the Adoption Profile Book?
5. What is an Adoption Profile Book? Quiz
1. The Matching Process Intro
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2. How Agencies Match
3. It’s a Match!
4. Staying in contact with your caseworker
5. Logistics- Pre/ Post Match Quiz
1. Birth Family Relations and Communications
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2. Do's and Don’ts
3. Maintaining Relations Throughout the Pregnancy
4. Relationship with the Birth Father
5. Birth Family Relations and Communications Quiz
1. Adoption Social Worker Communications Intro
2. What is an Adoption Social Worker, and Why Do We Need Them?
3. Social Worker's Relationship with Adoptive Parents
4. Support for Adoptive and Birth Parents
5. Adoption Counselor Communications Quiz
1. The Birth Plan
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2. Preparing for the Hospital Visit
3. Decisions at the Hospital
4. Birth Mother Gift
5. The Birth Plan Quiz
1. Hospital Etiquette
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2. Do’s and Don’ts:
3. Respecting the Birth Plan
4. The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
5. Nesting Rooms
6. Who Names the Baby?
7. When Do You Get the Baby, i.e., Discharge?
8. Hospital Etiquette Quiz
1. Birth Mother Consent Signing & Process
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2. Irrevocability
3. Birth Parent Consent to the Adoption is Not the Final Step
4. Birth Mother Consent Quiz
1. Adoption Disruption Intro
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2. Reasons Disruption Can Happen
3. Legal Risk Period
4. What Happens Next
5. How to prevent or minimize adoption disruption
6. Adoption Disruption Quiz
1. Finalization Intro
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2. Adoptive Parents Adoption Finalization
3. Post-placement Visits and Reports
4. Finalization Quiz
1. Loss and Grief Intro
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2. Postpartum Mood Disorders in Birth Mothers and Adoptive Parents
3. Post-Adoption Depression Syndrome (PADS)
4. Adoption is a Life-long Issue for All Parties
5. Balancing Your Happiness to Her Grief
6. Loss and Grief Quiz
1. Post Placement Communications
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2. Open Adoptions Contract
3. Child Connect
4. Post-Placement Communications Quiz
1. Welcome Home Help
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2. Inducing Lactation
3. Handling a Newborn
4. Bonding and Soothing
5. Diapering, Bathing, and Feeding Your Baby
6. Sleeping Basics
1. Parenting Issues and Concerns
2. Lack of Sleep & When to Call the Doctor
3. Weight Gain, Vaccine Safety, and Milestones
4. Inconsolable Crying, Poop Colors, and SIDS
1. Special Parenting Circumstances Intro
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2. Parenting a Child of a Different Cultural or Racial Background, Infancy through Adulthood
3. Parenting a Special Needs Child
4. Parenting a Drug/Alcohol-Exposed Baby
5. Special Parenting Circumstances Quiz
1. Adoption Costs: What to Expect
1. Adoption Tax Credit Intro & Benefits
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2. How Much is the Tax Credit?
3. Claiming the Credit
4. Adoption Tax Credit Benefits Quiz
1. A First Hand Shared Experience: How Do You Talk to Your Kids About Adoption?
2. Create Your Adoption Story
3. Benefits of Creating Your Adoption Story
1. Thank You For Joining Us at Adoption U!
2. Adoptive Parent Training Survey

About this course

$350.00
117 lessons
3 hours of video content

Adoptive Parent Training

Course Curriculum

Adoptive Parent Training Intro

1: I Want to Adopt - Now What?

2: Expectations of Adoption and the Adoption Process

3: Understanding Adoption Processes

4: Home Study

5: Profile Books

6: Logistics - Pre/Post Match

7: Birth Family Relations; Communications While Waiting

8: Adoption Counselor Communications

9: Birth Plan

10: Hospital Etiquette

11: Birth Mother Consent

12: Adoption Disruption

13: Finalization

14: Loss and Grief

15: Post-Placement Communications (w/Birth Parents)

16: Newborn Education

17: Parenting Issues and Concerns

18: Special Parenting Circumstances

19: Adoption Costs

20: Adoption Tax Credit

21: Your Adoption Story

Thank You For Joining Us at Adoption U!

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