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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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/
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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.
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