Places in Adoption UK’s training workshops can be purchased individually by parents or carers, or by adoption or fostering agencies for their parents and carers. In this case the agency chooses the venue and dates and Adoption UK provides the course materials and a highly skilled team of trainers with vast amounts of personal and professional experience and knowledge.
All our course trainers are adoptive or foster parents, giving them a unique insight when delivering training. Not only are they able to deliver the material but they can share in the whole experience of adoption from a personal point of view.
'It's a Piece of Cake?'
Adoption UK’s popular six-module parent support programme for adopters and long term foster carers. For further information and to watch a DVD about this successful programme, see next page.
Parents and carers can now book individual places on the workshops below at a range of venues throughout 2007/8:
Parental Substance Misuse: one-day workshop providing information on the physical and behavioural effects on children born to parents misusing drugs, alcohol and tobacco, and the possible long term implications. It gives knowledge and information to develop strategies for such children in the home, school and community.
Contact and the Adopted Child: one-day workshop reflecting on the purpose and meaning of contact for those involved. It explores the different types of contact and how some form of contact can help a child develop a healthy sense of identity.
School and Education Issues: one-day workshop covering issues that may arise in the classroom for a child due to the effects of separation, loss, trauma and attachment. Strategies and practical suggestions for supporting the child in school are explored.
Parenting Adopted Teenagers: one-day workshop examining the issues that affect adoptive parents, foster carers and children during the teenage years, highlighting the warning signs of serious emotional or behavioural difficulties. The issue of control in the older child is discussed, alongside ways parents can maximise their influence over behaviour without alienating their child.
Telling About Adoption: one-day workshop exploring the importance of life story work and telling about adoption. Practicalities, resources and potential difficulties involved in undertaking life story work are also covered.
Understanding the Needs of the Child at Placement: two-day workshop, ideal for adopters and foster carers who have been approved and are waiting for placement. It explores the issues that affect parents and children, aiming to help new parents make positive connections with their child in the early days of a new placement, based on a knowledge of attachment and the effects of early trauma.
