Open Adoption 101: What To Consider, How To Establish And Ways To Stay Connected AOW

Certification Duration: Forever

Course completion window: 30 days

Course Description

Open adoption can be a scary and difficult relationship to understand. This course will explain open adoption, will help you to understand the expectant parent and birth parent perspectives and will offer some strategies for making openness part of your every day life.

This class will help prospective adoptive parents:

  • Understand the different degrees of openness
  • Become familiar with the process of creating an open adoption
  • Make openness work for them
  • Learn to maintain connections with birth families

Credit Hours: 2.0

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By using – and teaching others about – positive adoptive language, adoptive families help tear down adoption misconceptions. This article helps families understand which phrases and words are the most positive and why.

Open Adoption 101: What To Consider, How To Establish And Ways To Stay Connected AOW

Certification Duration: Forever

Course Description

Open adoption can be a scary and difficult relationship to understand. This course will explain open adoption, will help you to understand the expectant parent and birth parent perspectives and will offer some strategies for making openness part of your every day life.

This class will help prospective adoptive parents:

  • Understand the different degrees of openness
  • Become familiar with the process of creating an open adoption
  • Make openness work for them
  • Learn to maintain connections with birth families

Credit Hours: 2.0

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