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Adopted children as a group are at high risk for attachment problems, even those adopted at a very young age. By definition, adoption separates a child from the pre-natal caregiver and the family of birth. This and later trauma, even apparently unremarkable, can leave tracks that contribute to behavior that is confusing and confounding to the adoptive family.
Early preparation and understanding of possible problems can be extremely helpful to families planning to adopt.
In Florida and many other states, adoptive parent education with emphasis on adoption issues is a prerequisite to suitability to adopt. Florida Statutes Chapter 63.092 lists education about adoption issues as an item to be described in the prospective adoptive family’s pre-adoption home study.
For your convenience, ACF is holding an adoptive parent education seminar at our North Miami Beach office on:
Saturday, June 14th, 2008.
9:00 am - 3:00 pm
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Presented by: Stacey Levine, LMHC - Advocates for Children and Families
- Introductions, personal experiences and stories
- Overcoming infertility, inter-country adoption, and adoption as a way of life
- Attachment and bonding: helping a child cope with separation and loss, maltreatment, and identity development; attachment video (Trauma, Brain and Relationship)
- Talking to children about adoption – Life Book, honoring birth parents
- Impacts of adoption on the family; changing roles and relationships in open adoption
- Guest lecturer (birth mother, adoptive parent, or adoptee)
- Child development and parenting techniques, needs of children awaiting adoption
- Raising a child of a different race, ethnicity, culture, or religion
- Overview of the lifelong process of adoption and its meaning
- Conditions in sending countries and the impact of institutionalization
- Caring for a child with special needs
16831 NE 6th Ave, North Miami Beach, FL 33162
Telephone: 305-653-2474
Email: info@adoptionflorida.org
Please call to register
$100.00 per person
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