Open Adoption for Adoptive Parents | June 2024
June 8 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
| $200Many parents come to adoption knowing only what they’ve seen in movies or heard second (or third or fourth) hand. Your real life as an adoption-built family will be quite different than how the media portrays it. Join us for this adoption training for prospective adoptive parents and gain valuable insight into the journey ahead.
During the workshop, you’ll learn how to:
- Explore the adoption process, including legal aspects
- Prepare for the realities of an open adoption, including intrusive questions and comments
- Acknowledge the basic differences in adoption-built families
- Navigate all types of relationships, or lack of a relationship, with biological parents
- Talk to children about their adoption story
You’ll also hear from a panel of birth parents who placed their children as they honestly share their reasons for choosing adoption, their lives afterward, and what their open adoption looks like today. Many of our participants say this is the most beneficial aspect of the seminar.
This interactive workshop will take place in four sessions:
Part 1: Teratogens & Genetic Concerns in Pregnancy*
Tuesday, June 4, 2024 | 12:00-1:00 p.m.
*This session will be recorded. If you are unable to attend live, we will provide a link so that you may watch it at your convenience.
Part 2: Open Adoption, The Process, Grief in Adoption
Saturday, June 8, 2024 | 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Part 3: Navigating Life as an Adoption-Built Family
Monday, June 10, 2024 | 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Part 4: Legal Issues & Adoptive Parent Panel
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 | 6:00-8:00 p.m.
You do not need to be adopting through Adoption Advocates to participate. This workshop is valuable for anyone pursuing open adoption, including international adoptions, independent adoptions and domestic adoptions through other agencies.
