This is a free event open to adults of color who were adopted or are former foster youth. Space will be provided for participants to explore and share experiences around international adoption, foster care, transracial/interracial adoption, search and reunion, birth/first family and other topics of … [Read more...]

Viewing & Live Discussion Receive a pre-recorded webinar to view prior to attending a live conversation and Q&A session. What is your little one thinking and feeling about adoption? Preschoolers are very concrete thinkers. They are just beginning to learn about things like "same and … [Read more...]

This webinar is for white adoptive parents ready to interrogate their own racism, talk about race with their children, and do something about racism now. No matter what your child's race, learn how to talk with them about all "-isms," including anti-Black and Brown racism and our country's history … [Read more...]

Viewing & Live Discussion Receive a pre-recorded webinar to view prior to attending a live conversation and Q&A session. Our children spend more time at school than almost anywhere else. Inevitably they will encounter racism and adoptism. How can you get support to address these issues, … [Read more...]

Open adoption and openness in adoption do not "solve" all the challenges of being adopted. They present different opportunities and challenges for the adoptee, requiring both sets of parents to develop specific attitudes and skills to best support them as they navigate information about and … [Read more...]

Viewing & Live Discussion Receive a pre-recorded webinar to view prior to attending a live conversation and Q&A session. Learn how adopted tweens are developing new analytical abilities, and beginning to explore new ideas, identities and world views. They are getting messages from media … [Read more...]

Are you a member of the LGBTQIA+ community and want to know what pathways are available to you to grow your family? Adoption offers members of the LGBTQIA+ the opportunity to create their own forever family. In fact, there are multiple adoption pathways available, including private infant domestic … [Read more...]

Spence-Chapin is thrilled to partner with the experts at Your Adoption Finance Coach to provide our families with free access to experts, tools and content that can take the worry out of financing your adoption. In this webinar, we will be joined by Kelly Ellison, adoptive mother and Founder and CEO … [Read more...]

This live webinar training will address what adoption professionals should know about supporting families in crisis who may be considering disruption or dissolution. The speakers will help professionals identify and secure appropriate resources while prioritizing adoptive families’ safety and … [Read more...]

Price: 10.00 USD There are different de-escalation strategies that can used at the different levels of a crisis situation. This webinar will focus on when to use different strategies at different times, how to present yourself as an ally to a child and not be another obstacle within the crisis, … [Read more...]