NJ Adoption Resource Clearing House Training Workshops

The following are the courses approved by the Division of Youth and Family Services (DYFS) for credit hour certification. To schedule a workshop contact Dana Fried at 973-763-2041 Ext. 207 or email dwfried@njarch.org.
 

Overview to NJ ARCH

Buddy Family Training

Basics of Special Education in NJ

Telling Your Child Difficult History

Adoption: Issues of Life-Long Loss, How Adoption Issues Impact on Life Transitions

Trans-racial Adoption and Foster Care: Parenting a Child of a Different Race

Adoption and Foster Care in the School

Foster and Adoptive Care Situations:  A Workshop to Help Foster Parents to Deal with Difficult Behaviors

From Termination of Parental Rights (TPR) to Adoption: The Journey to Permanency

 

Overview to NJ ARCH

This presentation will give an overview to the NJ Adoption Resource Clearing House (NJ ARCH) website and services such as the free lending library, Buddy training, Support Group Advocacy programs and more.

Approximate Length of Training:  One hour


 

Buddy Family Training 

Have you ever thought about “giving back” to an individual or family who needs a “buddy” or mentor?  NJ ARCH offers this training to assist those who would like to take this progressive step in assisting those who need that extra coaching.  This workshop includes the qualities of a mentor, the “Core Issues of Adoption” concepts as well as describes how you can assist a person by becoming a “buddy”.

Approximate Length of Training:  All Day Workshop, approximately six hours

 

Basics of Special Education in NJ

Find out your Special Education Rights in NJ. Attend an overview to a parent/ guardian’s right to advocate for their children in the New Jersey school system. This workshop will assist parents in advocating for your child within the New Jersey Special Education System.

Approximate Length of Training:  One and one-half hours

 

Telling Your Child Difficult History 

Sharing painful information about a child’s history or birth family can be challenging for adoptive parents.  This workshop will help you develop the skills to competently tell you children difficult information and help them process it.

Approximate Length of Training:  One and one-half hours

 

Adoption: Issues of Life-Long Loss
How Adoption Issues Impact on Life Transitions

Adoption issues can impact each developmental task. This workshop will help parents understand how adoption impacts developmental transitions and develop the skills to help their children navigate these transitions.

Approximate Length of Training:  One and one-half hours

 

Trans-racial Adoption and Foster Care: Parenting a Child of a Different Race

Parenting a child from a different race can be challenging.  This workshop will explore the various myths in all types of adoptions and will discuss ways to address issues that may come up when either fostering or adopting a child of a different race.

Approximate Length of Training:  Two hours.

 

Adoption and Foster Care in the School 

This workshop will focus on the various issues that affect the adopted or foster child in the school setting; adopted related assignments (family tree, genetics, family structure), who to tell in the school, teacher understanding of adoption issues, plus other delicate issues.  Included will be discussion and website references and handouts.

Approximate Length of Training:  One and one-half hours

 

Foster and Adoptive Care Situations:  A Workshop to Help Foster Parents to Deal with Difficult Behaviors

The goal of the workshop will be to help foster and adoptive parents be supportive and “therapeutic” in their reactions to foster or adoptive children in their home. This workshop will serve as a training vehicle to assist foster parents in identifying the psychological underpinnings of potential situations in their home.  This workshop will help identify possible situations that could affect the family and /or the other children at home.   To assist in the discussion, a training video, “Foster and Adoptive Care Situations” from Northwest Video, with various foster care vignettes will be shown. 

Approximate Length of Training:  One and one-half hours

 

From Termination of Parental Rights (TPR) to Adoption: The Journey to Permanency

This workshop details the legal criteria for termination of parental rights, contrasts adoption vs. kinship legal guardianship and reviews the psychological issues for children, foster parents and adoptive parents as they move through the process

Approximate Length of Training:  One and one-half hours

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