Education Center for Adoptive Parents: Creating Family

 Education Center for Adoptive Parents: Creating Family prepares parents for the child’s emotional, mental and physical transitions into their families. It addresses the importance of a child’s identity and birth name and what risk factors they may have experienced pre-adoption. It helps prospective parents consider the emotional, ethical, financial and legal implications of adopting a child. Finally, it also offers parents opportunities for self-reflection. 

Run time: 57 minutes.

Modules include:

• Claiming the Whole Story
• Self Reflection and Infertility
• Ethics in Adoption
• Legal Considerations and General Financial Expectations
• The Emotional Landscape
• Physical Transitions 
• Naming an Adopted Child
• Risk Factors in International Adoption
• Nutrition 
• Attachment