Adoption and Permanency: 7 Core Issues

1525 McPherson Avenue,Council Bluffs IA 51503

22 January, 2022

Description

A parent’s understanding of the 7 Core Issues enables them to better understand the complexity of their child's emotions. Description: Families built through foster, kinship care, and adoption represent bitter sweet forms of family building as they incorporate the joys and pain of both loss and gain. All members of the adoption/permanency constellation—which include adopted persons, birth/first parents, permanent parents, and extended family—experience lifelong inter-generational losses and complexities. In this course we will discuss how and when individuals are affected by both the positive and challenging issues of adoption and permanency. A parent’s understanding of the Seven Core Issues enables them to better address the complex challenges and feelings their child may experience throughout various stages of development. Curriculum: 7 Core Issues: Loss Rejection Shame and Guilt Grief IdentityIntimacy Mastery and Controlhttps://www.nacac.org/resource/seven-core-issues-in-adoption-and-permanency/ Course Objectives: To give caregivers, social workers and teachers; an understanding of how the losses in adoption and permanency create complexities that need to be addressed in order to achieve a healthy identity. tools for navigating and supporting their children through the life cycle of adoption. Credit Hours: 3.0 Available Seats: 60 Trainer: Hector Villareal LSI Foster Care and Adoption recruits, licenses, and supports foster and adoptive parents in 30 counties in western Iowa.