Adoptive families will acquire the tools they need to make talking about adoption part of everyday life.

The course will help you:

• Understand why it is important to you, your child and your family.
• Identify barriers to discussing adoption.
• Explore your child’s developmental stages and learn strategies for addressing questions at each stage.
• Learn communication strategies through the analysis of actual parent-child dialogues
• Build a collection of tools for discussing adoption.
• Share in the wisdom and experience of adoptive parents, adopted persons and professionals.

Credit hours: 2.0