Welcome FRUA families!
Based on your feedback, FRUA has joined forces with Adoption Learning Partners to bring our members more adoptive family education. ALP's courses and webinars feature leading experts in the field of adoption and address the challenges adoptive families face.
Every few months we'll feature a new course or webinar, but you'll find many great resources on Adoption Learning Partners. To enroll in the current feature, use coupon code: FRUAfasd at checkout.
FRUA Feature
FASD: Risk, Development and Intervention
Join Dr. Ira Chasnoff as he helps parents sort through complications that may arise when raising a child who was exposed to alcohol before birth. Dr Chasnoff will explain the physical and developmental impact of pre-natal alcohol exposure on children as they grow. He will also offer practical intervention ideas and strategies that parents can use to help their child develop to their maximum potential.
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Adopted: The Identity Project
This course guides parents through a series of adoptee stories giving a unique view into the hearts, minds and souls of the adopted person experience.
Becoming Your Child's Best Advocate
Advocacy begins even before a child joins her adoptive family and continues throughout her childhood. This course will help you understand why you are the best advocate for your adopted child, determine your need for services and find resources available to assist your family.
Upon completion of this course, you may purchase a certificate for $40. If purchased as part of a package, the fee is already included.
Let's Talk Adoption
Talking about adoption can be difficult for a variety of reasons, but it should not be a one time conversation. This course gives you the tools you need to make talking about adoption part of your family's everyday life.
Tough Starts: Brain Development Matters
Brain Development Matters thoroughly explains the impact that early trauma has on a child's brain chemistry, brain development and sensory processing. Once parents understand how their child's brain is connected to his behaviors, these behaviors begin to make more sense. With a thorough understanding of brain development, parents are better prepared to learn how to more successfully intervene and shape their child's troubling behaviors.
Tough Starts: Parenting Matters
Parenting Matters applies a strengths-based, therapeutic approach to parenting in order to heal a child who has had a tough start in life. Learn this deliberate and intentional approach to parenting through exercises, family stories and expert advice.
Is It An Adoption Thing?
Because many adoptive families struggle with the difficult task of sorting out if behaviors and challenges are adoption related or not, we asked an expert to help! Dr. Gregory Keck discusses common challenges at each developmental stage and offers real life examples and suggestions.
Building Bonds of Attachment: Practical, Expert Advice
All parents hope for close relationships with their children. And for children, trusting their parents and feeling secure in their family is essential. Often, adoption can pose challenges to the attachment process. Circumstances prior to adoption experiences either in utero, in an orphanage or in foster care, can create serious barriers to attachment.
Connecting Your Family, Inside And Out
Secure parent-child attachments are essential to healthy child development, but often adoption can present challenges to the process. World renowned attachment expert Dr. Dan Hughes shares family centered strategies on how to connect to your child as a toddler, tween and teen. Lynn Wetterberg presents ideas on finding attachment related resources and professional support.
Snack, Play, Love
Dr. Karyn Purvis discusses the most recent research on the impact nutrition can have on behavior.
ALP Blog
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An adoption and school handout to give to other parents at your child's school or to send home with classmates after an adoption presentation.
