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The NJ ARCH E-Learning Page is designed to keep you informed about various educational and learning courses about adoption issues that are available online. 

Below is a list of online educational services with direct URL links.  This page will be updated regularly;
so please feel free to visit often and find out about any new courses that become available.

 

Adoption Learning Partners

 New Course:  Ain't Misbehavin': Discipline and the Adopted Child

When your child misbehaves, you may assume you need to punish them in order to teach them a lesson.  Spare the rod, spoil the child.  Right?  

In fact, punishment is not the most effective way to shape behavior and can have particularly harmful effects for adopted children who may have attachment or trust issues. 

Introducing a new online course Ain't Misbehavin': Discipline and the Adopted Child.  
Interactive exercises and real life examples will help you:
* understand some common causes for difficult behavior
* learn why discipline is preferable to punishment
* explore specific examples of challenging behavior
* develop an adoption-friendly plan for your family
 

Other Adoption Learning Partners Courseware:

Conspicuous Families
Let's Talk Adoption
The Journey of Attachment
Finding the Missing Pieces
Becoming Your Child's Best Advocate
Understanding the Adoption Tax Credit
With Eyes Wide Open
Becoming Your Child's Best Advocate: Help for Adoptive Parents


Other Adoption Learning Partners Courseware:

Conspicuous Families
Let's Talk Adoption
The Journey of Attachment
Finding the Missing Pieces
Becoming Your Child's Best Advocate
Understanding the Adoption Tax Credit
With Eyes Wide Open
Becoming Your Child's Best Advocate: Help for Adoptive Parents


This online service provides various educational courses in adoption that are appropriate for all members of the adoption constellation. Adoption Learning Partners collaborates with other adoption agencies and members of the adoption community to provide an interactive learning resource.

Available courses range from 45 minutes to 2.5 hours to complete. Courses do not need to be completed in one session. Some courses are available free of charge; others that provide certifications require a small fee.

Click on the URL to visit: www.adoptionlearningpartners.org 
 

We are pleased to announce that our newest course, Adopting the Older Child, will be available on the Adoption Learning Partners website next week.  This course will help you determine whether adopting an older child, either internationally or through the domestic child welfare system, is right for you.  The course will award two hours of training credit.

Coinciding with the launch of this new course we will implement changes to our fee structure.  I will highlight them for you:

  • Three courses will remain available free of charge – Lifebooks, Becoming Your Child’s Best Advocate, and Understanding the Adoption Tax Credit.  Optional Certificates of Completion will be available for a fee.

  • All other courses will have an enrollment fee that will include the issue of a Certificate of Completion.  The fees will range from $30 to $45 per course if enrolled in individually.

  • If you enroll in three or more courses, there will be reduced fees.  Please note that these fees will apply when enrolling in multiple courses during one enrollment session, and are not applied retroactively.  For example, if you come to the website on three separate occasions and enroll in one course each time, you will pay the individual enrollment fee for each course. 

  • The current Certificate of Completion application procedure and fee that has been in place will still be available to you for any courses in which you are currently enrolled or completed in the past.

  • Our next course, Medical Issues in International Adoption should be available in late summer.  You may pre-enroll in this course to take advantage of the multiple course savings.  We will notify you when the course is launched.

  • Click on the link to the right to download a copy of the new fee structure.

    Thank you for your support. 
    Sincerely,
    Vicki DuFour
    Executive Director

National Council For Adoption (NCFA) offers online training for prospective adoptive parents:

NCFA is pleased to announce the launch of The Intercountry Adoption Journey.

This online training program provides prospective adoptive parents with eight of the ten hours of education required by the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption, while also fulfilling eight of the twenty hours of biannual education on intercountry adoption required of adoption professionals.

Click here for more details: http://www.hagueadoption.org/


 
FosterParentTraining.com
 

This online course offers complete training (except for hands-on certification and CPR) for future foster and adoptive parents.  There is a
one-year membership fee of $24 that is often reimbursable.  Go to www.fosterparenttraining.com for more information.
 

 
Upcoming Teleconferences
 

“National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice and Permanency Planning at the Hunter College School of Social Work: Organizations are increasingly making use of technology to present information to a wide audience. As we hear about teleconferences and webcasts being offered that may be of interest.
  


 Beyond Culture Camp: Promoting Healthy Identity in Adoption, June 2, 12:00 Noon - 1:30 PM Central Time (Webinar)

 Adam Pertman will provide an in-depth look into The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute's groundbreaking research on identity formation in adoption. While Korean Americans are at the heart of this study, the Institute's review of decades of literature and its examination of trans-racial adoption from foster care indicate that the recent findings are highly relevant to all trans-racial adoptive families.
Judy Stigger, LCSW, will then show you how you can begin to put the most current, most authoritative data available into practice.
This webinar is designed for professionals working in the field, and offers CEs for successful completion.
www.AdoptionLearningPartners.org/ce_information.cfm for details.

Audio for the webinar will be via telephone at the following toll number: 218-339-2409. You will receive call in information prior to the webinar.