Practical Tips to Preserve Kids’ History: Training for Foster and Adoptive Parents

I will absolutely encourage all of my future families to attend this training. This training broke down easy to follow steps to have conversations with our foster/ adoptive youth, and gather information, to gain more insight into the youth’s life and provide them with a piece of their own identity.
Past Participant

Adoptive and Foster families, if you:

Want to share the truth with your kids, but don’t know where to start.
Don’t know what to say to kids about kids’ birth parents, or why kids came into care.
Don’t know what to do with photos of kid’s birth family.

Then this training is for you.

*2-hour training certificate provided after an evaluation is received.

What Participants Are Saying

I was reminded of the importance of being child centered and ensuring that the child has ownership of their story.

I feel this training can help shape, mold, & provide valuable information that is needed to having a loving, special, & positive relationship as a parent of a adoptive or foster child.

James Bradford III

Alisa was able to share clear examples and stories that allowed me to think about how to apply the lessons that I learned during the session. I am just starting the application process to become a foster/adoptive parent, and I am trying to gather all the information that I can to be better prepared and knowledgeable.

This 2-hour live training will enable parents to:

Be child-led when talking to children about their stories
Maintain foster and adopted children’s history as they grow.
Consider what children might want to know when they are older, about their birth families and time in care.

To learn what:

Is age-appropriate to share or not share.
To include when gathering information.
Questions to talk with a therapist about and what parents can answer themselves.

And gain practical tips on how: