Adoption Learning Partners This online service provides various educational courses in adoption that are appropriate for all members

NJ ARCH
E-Learning Page

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 AVAILABLE!!!

Lifebooks: Creating and Telling Your Child's Story

Learn about the importance of a Lifebook and how to use it throughout the years.
This course will help you:

Understand the purpose of a Lifebook and the need to start or to continue to develop one.
Identify the components of a Lifebook.
Identify situations that may benefit from employing the Lifebook.
Develop some pages of your child's Lifebook.
Understand the importance of Lifebooks as a lifelong project.

Developed in conjunction with professionals from the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, this course is designed to help adoptive parents become better advocates for their children, to find the resources and services their children may need, and suggest strategies for communicating with the providers of these resources.

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/

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.

“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.
Go to http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/socwork/nrcfcpp/teleconferences/upcoming-events.html for more information.