course »Exploring Adoption and How to Support Youth through the Process

Date: 1/25/2019, 10:00 am—1:00 pm
County: Contra Costa County
Location: eAntioch
Sponsor: Alternative Family Services (AFS)
Phone: (916) 254-5200
This training is designed to define the adoption process and the social, emotional, and legal process in which children that will not be raised by their birth parents become a full and permanent legal members of another family. Discussing how adoption has many facets and touches people in different ways—depending on their role and perspective. Information on the history of adoption in the United States.

The presenter will discuss core issues, the importance of commitment on the adoptive parent’s part and how adoption is a lifelong process for everyone involved, with significant emotional and legal impacts.