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  • What to Expect After Arriving Home With Your IA Child
    Cost: $15.00
    This course will help you to determine what to expect at each developmental stage when adopting internationally.
    This course will:
    * Prepare you for challenges you may encounter and how to increase a smoother transition
    * Deal with cultural differences and institutional background issues
    * Explores reasons for placement in orphanage or foster home and the medical and behavioral effects
    * Discuss common post-arrival issues to look out for
    * Explore your child’s developmental stages
    * Give guidance on what to do upon arriving home
    * Address limit setting and introducing structure
    * Help to determine an appropriate educational placement for your child
    * Identify when and where to seek professional assistance for your child

    This Class is 1 Credit Hour of Adoption Education



  • Post-Adoption Supervision:In the Ethiopian Adoption Process
    Cost: $15.00
    For those interested in adopting from Ethiopia this training, taught by a social worker who has volunteered in an orphanage in Ethiopia while accompanying her client to receive her child, will prepare you for post-placement meetings with a social worker when you return home from Ethiopia. It is offered to make adoptive parents feel comfortable with the process. Completion of supervision is mandatory if you wish to adopt your Ethiopian child in America . Satisfactory completion of this course counts as one course towards the mandatory 10 courses required by the Department of Homeland Security, Citizenship and Immigration Services; your adoption agency and Ethiopia.

    This Class is 1 Credit Hour of Adoption Education
  • Post-Placement Supervision: A Necessary Step.
    Cost: $15.00
    SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland Security,Citizenship and Immigration Services requires that upon placement of your child you meet with a social worker in your home to evaluate your child's adjustment and functioning and your adjustment to parenthood.

    This course is offered as a training to prepare you for those most important visits with a social worker. This course is of particular importance to those families who wish to adopt or re-adopt in America as it is these post-placement supervisory visits and the reports that your social worker writes which are submitted to your local court and serve as the foundation for review of your request for finalization of your adoption.

    This Class is 1 Credit Hour of Adoption Education.

  • Adoption Travel and transition 101
    Cost: $30.00
    In this class Dr. Rogu will help you to understand issues related to International travel to pick up your adopted child. Topics that will be covered are issues pertaining to: Parent Health,Traveling with Other Children,Managing Health Problems while abroad,What to Medical Supplies to Bring Additional Travel Tips, Meeting the Child He will also go over many of the immediate transition problems that are often experienced by adoptive families, such as sleeping, feeding, bathing and the institutional behaviors exhibited by a newly adopted child. And he will also go over the importance of the Post-Arrival Visit to the Adoption Pediatrician.

    This Class is 2 Credit Hours of Adoption Education