Preparing to Adopt
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The losses experienced by adoptees are a type of experience called “ambiguous loss.” This is thought to be the most difficult type of loss because there is no finality, closure or obvious path to resolution, and society does not have rituals or ways to acknowledge...
Are you preparing to welcome a newborn or young child into your family? This webinar covers a continuum of age-specific attachment issues and introduces strategies that promote secure attachment for adopted children from infancy through toddlerhood. Target audience:...
In this webinar, we outline the process of creating your Dear Expectant Parent(s) letter to introduce yourself to expectant parents considering an adoption plan. Our approach reflects Pact’s ethical, non-coercive approach to adoption. We’ll help you create an honest,...
Adoptive parents of color raising children who look like them have choices about when or even whether to talk to their children about their adoption history. Sometimes parents worry that telling a child they are adopted will lead to feelings of insecurity or...
As the landscape of adoption providers continues to be heavily dominated by for-profit entities and “do-it-yourself” online matching services, foregrounding ethics in voluntary infant placement and adoption become all the more critical. This webinar raises questions...
Many, perhaps most, adoptions now begin with the possibility of some amount of openness and contact between birth and adoptive parents. How do you determine what’s right for you and your child? This webinar will address common concerns and questions, and help you...
Siblings can have many complicated relationships with adoption: Growing up with both adopted and non-adopted siblings; siblings who are adopted with different levels of birth family contact; siblings by birth growing up in different families through birth and/or...
It’s critically important that you become comfortable talking about all the complexities of adoption with adopted children—the sorrows as well as the joys. Learn developmentally-appropriate strategies for talking with children about adoption, first families, and loss....
Transracial adoption for parents of color is becoming more common. Learn from adoptive parents of color parenting across race: the steps they took to prepare themselves for transracial adoption, the experience of parenting their children at different ages and stages,...
Are you planning a transracial adoption, or are you already parenting across racial lines? This webinar is for white parents working to educate themselves about race and racism, which includes understanding white privilege and interrogating your own whiteness. We...
Do you want to deepen your knowledge of adoption by learning from the foremost experts? Pact firmly believes that adopted people—not adoptive parents—are the first, most important voices to hear from about the experience of being adopted. In this webinar, adopted...
Learn from the voices of experience! Hear adoptive parents share things they wish they had understood earlier. Topics include: handling your own fears; understanding how children experience adoption; why the words we use matter; talking about our child’s birth and...
In the world of adoption, first/birth parents are often talked about or spoken for, but rarely heard from directly about their lived experiences. In this webinar, you can hear from a panel of first/birth parents as they discuss the many complexities of adoption from...
Hear practical and ethical advice about what to expect when pre-adopters have been matched with expectant parents in an adoption plan and are invited to the hospital when a child is being placed for adoption. We will focus on how to manage the complex time when...
This webinar focuses on talking about adoption and foster care in communities of color. Learn strategies for supporting adoptive and foster parents of color throughout the adoption journey, from preparation through separation. Target audience: Adoption professionals....