Parenting

Whether you're a new adoptive parent or someone who has been parenting for years, these courses give you new tools for your parenting toolbox.

Learn about challenges and opportunities from professionals in the adoption field and adoptive parents who have been there.

Please view our education calendar for dates and to register for sessions.

Adoption and Classroom Success: Beyond the Basics  [on-demand webinar]
Join us for a discussion with Heather T. Forbes, LCSW, on how to help your child succeed at school. Circumstances prior to adoption often cause adopted children to experience school, among other things, in a different framework than other kids. Orphanage care, foster care or prenatal exposure are all events that can affect behavior as a child grows. Heather presents tips and strategies on how to help your child be more successful at school, therefore easing some of the stress at home.
Format: One 1-hour on-demand webinar
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Attachment and Adoption [webinar]
If you are interested in creating and maintaining healthy parent/child attachments in your adoptive family, this webinar series is for you. Learn about secure and insecure attachments, trauma, grief and loss, transitions and more. Take away some new ideas, practical skills and strategies to build success in your family.
Format: Three 1-hour webinars
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Attachment: An Introduction [workshop]
Learn the basics of attachment, how it forms, common challenges for adoptive children and an overview of strategies to promote healthy and strong attachment with your adoptive children. 
Format: One half day in-person workshop
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Attachment Toolkit Workshop [workshop]
If you are interested in creating and maintaining healthy parent/child attachments in your adoptive family, this half-day, hands-on workshop is for you. Come and learn about secure and insecure attachments, trauma, grief and loss, transitions and more. Take home some new ideas, practical skills and strategies to build success in your family.
Format: One 4-hour in-person workshop
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BC Post Adoption Assistance [webinar]
Post Adoption Assistance (PAA) offers a variety of services to support families who adopt through the Waiting Child Program in BC. Learn what you need to know before you adopt - including services offered, maintenance support payments, qualifications, eligibility, and exceptions.
Format: One 1-hour webinar
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FASD: Becoming the Sensory Detective at Home [on-demand webinar]
This webinar identifies examples of factors in the home environment that may trigger children and youth with FASD, identify the indicators of a sensory sensitivity reaction, and explore strategies to reduce the impact of that reaction on the child or youth.
Format: One 1-hour webinar
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Food Issues in Adoption [webinar]
Feeding adoptive children can pose many challenges to the adoptive family--at any stage in the process and throughout their lifetime. Join us for this new advanced webinar on Food Issues in Adoption.  Issues such as malnutrition, feeding challenges, feeding & attachment, and building trust through healthy food habits will be covered. 
Format: One 1.5-hour webinar
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Identity Matters [on-demand webinar]
Identity Matters is a two-part advanced webinar series that discusses how to create and/or maintain a positive racial and ethnic identity for your child. It includes how to get comfortable with your child’s community, handling racism, and understanding identity models, including your own. You will gain advice from children who have been and are in the process of developing this part of their identity.
Format: Two 1-hour webinars
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Laughter and Tears in the First Year [webinar]
They laughed, they cried - it became a part of them. An adoptive mother of two boys tells the very real story of her family’s first year after adopting an older child. Her younger son joined her family at 7 yrs old, after spending over 5 years in multiple foster homes in BC. This mom's stories and insights bring a mix of emotion, good humour, and wisdom to her account of what was the most challenging and rewarding year of their lives. Learned during a “crash course in extreme parenting,” she shares the twelve significant lessons her adoptive family has learned to live by.
Format: One 1-hour webinar
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The Middle Years - Child Parent Relationship Therapy for Adoptive Families [workshop]
Parents are taught basic child-centered play therapy principles and skills in a supportive group setting. During weekly play sessions, parents gain reflective listening skills, learn how to identify and respond empathetically to their child's feelings, to set limits and give choices. The goal is for children to feel more secure and to increase their problem solving skills, self-confidence, and competency.
Format: In-person workshop
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School Issues and Adoption [webinar]
School can be a challenging environment for children who have joined their family by adoption. This webinar is a must for adoptive parents of school-aged children and the education professionals in their lives.
Format: One 1-hour on-demand webinar
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Siblings in Adoption [webinar]
Join us for this exciting new two-part webinar series that focuses on the effect adoption can have on siblings. In Part 1 we look at the importance of sibling relationships and how to prepare your child and family for a new adopted child. Part 2 then focuses on the benefit of adopting sibling groups as well as how to navigate scenarios when siblings are not adopted together. 
Format: One 1-hour webinar
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Support and Strategies for Substance-Exposed Children [webinar]
Jan Radford is an RN with extensive experience in this area, an adoptive mom to four children and a foster parent for the past 10 years. In part one, participants will gain valuable knowledge about the impact of various substances on the developing fetus. Part two provides real world ideas for supporting children impacted by prenatal exposure.
Format: Two 1-hour webinars
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Transracial Parenting Series [workshop]

If you are adopting a child of a different race/culture or you are already parenting transracially, these workshops are a must! Workshop ONE: Motivation to Adopt Transracially, Family Identity/ Sharing Family Stories, Culture and Heritage, Talking to Your Kids, Ages and Stages, Being your Child's Best Ally. Workshop TWO:  Stereotypes, Your Child's Positive Racial Identity, School Issues, Dealing with Racism, Panel of Transracially Adopted Youth and Adults.
Format: Two 4-hour in-person workshops
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