Adoption Education Program (International Adoptions)

This comprehensive program will give you an understanding of how a child’s early life experiences with trauma, grief and loss, shapes a child’s ability to attach, and the tools to navigate a intercountry adoption process journey. It will also ensure you fulfill the education requirements set out in the British Columbia Adoption Act Regulation. Clients of BC Adoption Agencies – use the registration coupon provided by your agency.

Curriculum

17 Chapters · 138 Lessons

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  Welcome to the Adoption Education Program
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  Requirements of the Course
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  Book Your Virtual Sessions
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  LESSON PDF
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  LESSON VIDEO
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  SUPPORTING VIDEO: Parenting Adoptive vs Biological Children
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  HANDOUT(Required): Long Term Consequences of Childhood Trauma
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  HANDOUT(Required): The Ethics of Changing a Name & Name Changes
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  RESOURCES(Recommended): Domestic Adoption To Do’s for Waiting Period
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  RESOURCES(Recommended): Honest Adoption Language vs. Positive Adoption Language:
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  RESOURCES(Recommended): 10 Bad Reasons for Choosing to Adopt
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  RESOURCES(Recommended): Books
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  QUIZ
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  ASSIGNMENT: Written or audio reflections of your adoption Journey
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  LESSON PDF
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  LESSON VIDEO
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  HANDOUT(Required): Trauma-Informed Parenting - A Guide for Families
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  HANDOUT(Required): Riding Out The Storm
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  HANDOUT(Required): Understanding Childhood Trauma
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  HANDOUT(Required): The impact of Childhood Trauma
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  RESOURCES(Recommended): Free Trauma-Informed Resources, Pintables and Articles — Resilient Futures
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  RESOURCES(Recommended): Developmental Trauma Resources
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  RESOURCES(Recommended): I Am Grateful To Be Adopted—and Yet, Adoption Is Still Traumatic.
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  RESOURCES(Recommended): Books
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  QUIZ
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  ASSIGNMENT: Written or audio reflections of your adoption journey.
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  LESSON PDF
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  LESSON VIDEO
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  SUPPORTING VIDEO: Dr. Dan Siegel - On Disorganized Attachment in the Making
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  HANDOUT(Required): Ambiguous loss in adoption
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  HANDOUT(Required): The Attachment Coalition –Grief and Loss Throughout the Lives of Adopted Children (PDF)
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  RESOURCES(Recommended): Books
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  QUIZ
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  ASSIGNMENT: Written or audio reflections of your adoption journey.
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  LESSON PDF
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  LESSON VIDEO
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  SUPPORTING VIDEO: Primal Wound – Nancy Verrier Interview
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  HANDOUT(Required): Adoption and Attachment: Forming a Secure Bond With Your Adopted Child
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  HANDOUT(Required): The Importance of Attachment in Adoption
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  RESOURCES(Recommended): Nurturing Attachments (Deborah Gray, MSW)
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  RESOURCES(Recommended): Books
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  QUIZ
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  ASSIGNMENT: Written or audio Reflections on your Attachment Style
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  LESSON PDF
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  LESSON VIDEO
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  SUPPORTING VIDEO: FASD Throughout the Lifespan
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  SUPPORTING VIDEO: Myths about FASD
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  SUPPORTING VIDEO: Life Story on FASD
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  SUPPORTING VIDEO: FASD for the Adoptive Family
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  HANDOUT(Required): Adoptee Experience of FASD
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  HANDOUT(Required): Not just the brain
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  HANDOUT(Required): Fact Sheet About FASD
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  RESOURCES(Recommended): Books
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  QUIZ
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  ASSIGNMENT: Written or audio reflections of your adoption journey.
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  REGISTER: For your Group Discusion
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  LESSON PDF
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  LESSON VIDEO
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  HANDOUT(Required): Malnutrition - Nutrition Guide for Foster and Adoptive Parents
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  HANDOUT(Required): Malnutrition - An Overview
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  HANDOUT(Required): Post Adoption Depression
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  HANDOUT(Required): Sensory Processing
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  RESOURCES(Recommended): Autism
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  RESOURCES(Recommended): Sensory Processing Resources
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  RESOURCES(Recommended): Downs Syndrome Resources
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  RESOURCES(Recommended): HIV Resources
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  RESOURCES(Recommended): Hepatitis Resources
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  QUIZ
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  ASSIGNMENT: Written or audio reflections of your adoption journey.
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  LESSON PDF
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  LESSON VIDEO
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  ADOPTEE INTERVIEW VIDEO: Parker (Module 7a)
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  HANDOUT(Required): Transracial Parenting Racial Pride
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  HANDOUT(Required): 5 Things I Wish My White Parents Knew
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  HANDOUT(Required): 10 Things I Need from You (Who Love Me) to Feel Supported as an Adoptee of Color: Amanda B.
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  RESOURCES(Recommended): The Adopted Life by Angela Tucker
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  RESOURCES(Recommended): The Antiracism Course by Selam Debs
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  RESOURCES(Recommended): Books
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  QUIZ
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  ASSIGNMENT: Written or audio reflections of your adoption journey.
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  LESSON PDF
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  LESSON VIDEO
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  SUPPORTING VIDEO: Interview with a Sunrise Birth Mother
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  SUPPORTING VIDEO: Open Adoption
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  SUPPORTING VIDEO: "A Worthy Voice" - Darel's Story, 75 Year-Old Adoptee
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  HANDOUT(PDF): FAQ’s on Open Adoption
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  HANDOUT(Link): Benefits of Openness
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  HANDOUT(Link): Understanding the Seven Core Issues in Adoption: Exploring the Complexities of Loss and Ambiguity
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  RESOURCES (Link): 7 Core Issues Course
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  HANDOUT(PDF): Impact of Adoption on Relationships
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  RESOURCES(Video): I am Adopted
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  RESOURCES(Link): Adoption Reunion Registry
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  RESOURCES(Link): Adoption the Making of Me (Podcast)
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  RESOURCES(Links): Recommended Books
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  RESOURCES(PDF): Lifelong Issues in Adoption
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  QUIZ
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  ASSIGNMENT: Written or audio reflections of your adoption journey.
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  LESSON PDF
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  LESSON VIDEO
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  SUPPORTING VIDEO: Neurofeedback Treatment for Reactive Attachment Disorder
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  HANDOUT(Required): Mental Health - 12 Things Adopted/Foster Children Wish You Knew
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  HANDOUT(Required): ADHD Resources Vancouver Coastal Health ADHD
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  HANDOUT(Required): ADHD and Adoption
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  HANDOUT(Required): Anxiety Workbook for Kids
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  HANDOUT(Required): Adoption Related Suicide
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  HANDOUT(Required): Adoptees and Suicide Risk
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  RESOURCES(Recommended): BC Mental Health Resources
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  RESOURCES(Recommended): What Are the Mental Health Effects of Being Adopted?
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  RESOURCES(Recommended): Books
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  QUIZ
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  ASSIGNMENT: Written or audio reflections of your adoption journey.
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  LESSON PDF
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  LESSON VIDEO
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  ADOPTEE INTERVIEW VIDEO: Parker (Module 10)
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  RESOURCES(Recommended): Making Sense of Meltdowns and Blowups by A Child's Song
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  RESOURCES(Recommended): Teen Adoption
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  RESOURCES(Recommended): Books
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  QUIZ
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  ASSIGNMENT: Written or audio reflections of your adoption journey.
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  LESSON PDF
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  LESSON VIDEO
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  SUPPORTING VIDEO: How did you help your child adjust to their new life? | International Adoptive Parent Voices
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  HANDOUT(Required): Top Ten Tips for Successful First Year Parenting of Your Adopted Child
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  HANDOUT(Required): Traumatic Grief
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  HANDOUT(Required): From Orphanage to Home
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  HANDOUT(Required): Top Ten Tips
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  HANDOUT(Required): Understanding Parental Postadoption Depression
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  RESOURCES(Recommended): Transitioning from Foster Care to Adoption
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  RESOURCES(Recommended): Teaching the Hurt Child
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  RESOURCES(Recommended): Books
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  QUIZ
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  ASSIGNMENT: Written or audio reflections of your adoption journey.
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  Hear from Adoptees & Adoptive Parents
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  ADOPTEE INTERVIEW VIDEO: Mindy
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  ADOPTEE INTERVIEW VIDEO: Katia
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  ADOPTEE INTERVIEW VIDEO: Travers
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  REGISTER: for Virtual 1:1 Coaching Session
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  International Adoption Education Program – Feedback Form

Understanding the unique joys and challenges of intercountry adoptions.

Adoption Education Program (International Adoptions)

Curriculum

1 OVERVIEW: Adoption Education Program

2 MODULE 1: Introduction to Therapeutic Parenting - What’s Different about Adoptive Parenting (with Andrea Chatwin)

3 MODULE 2: Understanding the Role of Trauma in Adoption (with Meagan VanDiermen)

4 MODULE 3: Recognizing and Responding to Grief and Loss Through Childhood and Adolescence (with Meagan VanDiermen)

5 MODULE 4: The Road to Secure Attachment after Loss

6 MODULE 5: Special Needs Associated with Prenatal Exposure (with Cindy Knott)

7 REGISTER FOR YOUR GROUP DISCUSSION

8 MODULE 6: Understanding and Preparing for the Complex Needs of Adoptees (with Cindy Knott)

9 MODULE 7A: Interracial Parenting: The Role of Race and Culture in Adoption (with Andrea Chatwin)

10 Module 8: Openness and Talking about Adoption Across Developmental States (with Andrea Chatwin)

11 MODULE 9: Understanding the Role of Mental Health in Parenting Adoptees (with Dr. Joanne Crandall)

12 MODULE 10: Joys and Challenges of Adopting Teens and Tweens (ages 10-17) (with Meagan VanDiermen)

13 MODULE 11: Adapting to Predictable Adjustment Difficulties (with Andrea Chatwin)

14 MODULE 12: Hear from Adoptees & Adoptive Parents

15 HEAR FROM ADOPTEES:

16 REGISTER FOR VIRTUAL 1:1 COACHING SESSION

17 FEEDBACK FORM