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Spaulding: Making the Commitment to Adoption-CANCELLED due to low registration

Spaulding: Making the Commitment to Adoption

 

Spaulding/In-service Training:  Virtual
February 23, 2024   6pm-9:30pm   &
February 24, 2024   8am-5:30pm

Cancelled due to low registration.  

Stay tuned for the next class!
 

The Spaulding program is offered to prospective adoptive families and you will earn 12 CEU’s by completing the training.  Spaulding training offers families the tools and information that they need to:

Explain how adoptive families are different
Importance of separation, loss, and grief in adoption
Understand attachment and its importance in adoption
Anticipate challenges and be able to identify strategies for managing challenges as an adoptive family
Explore the lifelong commitment to a child that adoption bring

 

 6:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.  
Exploring Expectations—Defining adoption, the process, and the key players.  Participant’s hopes and fears about the adoption process are recognized and empowerment strategies are identified to assist them in the process.  Participant’s explore their fantasies about children they might adopt to become aware of the possible influence on their decision about adoption. 

Meeting the Needs of Waiting Children—Assist prospective adoptive parents in focusing on the needs of children awaiting adoption.  Explore the issues of separation, loss, grief and attachment. Plus the unique issues related to parenting a child who has been sexually abused.

  8:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.     (Lunch on your own)
Exploring Adoption Issues—Identify supports within their family and introduce them to common issues that all adoptive families face.  Help develop strategies for dealing with these issues; explore crisis periods in adoption; explore their own strengths, needs and challenges as they consider adoption.

Making the Commitment—Assist prospective adoptive parents in considering resources they may need, what they need to know, what they need to do, and what they need to explore about themselves as they consider adopting a particular child or children.

Register online at:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SpauldingRegistration2024

Spaulding/In-service Training:  We are working hard on setting up future Spaulding:  Making the Commitment to Adoption.  If you have a location in mind, please contact the NFAPA office. 

 

 




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