Training:

**ORPARC Training** Child-Centered Transitions of Children from Foster Care into Adoptive Homes

Jan 29
Friday, January 29, 2027 – 1:00pm
1:00pm - 3:00pm

**Registrations opening soon...!**

A child’s transition from resource to adoptive family is one of the most important events in a child’s life. Yet, currently, there is no established practice on transitioning a child from a resource family to an adoptive one. This training presents a model for transitioning children from resource families to adoptive families that is attachment-based, developmentally-focused and child-paced. This training describes how to help the child both form a new trusting relationship with their adoptive parents, and to shift their relationships with resource parents from day-to-day caregiver to extended family. The model also has applications to some transitions between resource families and this will be explored in the training.

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand adaptations of an adoptive transition to make it relationship focused
  • Learn how to design and structure visits to gradually develop the child’s comfort and trust with adoptive parents using an attachment perspective
  • Develop an appreciation of how to facilitate the processing of grief in children and resource parents about the shift in their relationship

Location:

ORPARC Online Training

Online Virtual Training
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About the presenter

Redmond Reams, PhD is a Licensed Psychologist with over 40 years experience providing therapy to children (birth to 18 years) and their families, as well as adults. He has published multiple research articles on adoptive transitions and has taught at Portland State University, Oregon Health Sciences University and the Oregon Psychoanalytic Center, is past president of the Oregon Infant Mental Health Association, and has consulted to child welfare on complex adoptive transitions. He lives in Portland, OR where he continues to provide psychotherapy, consultation and training. He has recently published a book on the model, "Finding the Way to Home: A Child-Centered Approach to Transitioning Children from Foster to Adoptive Families.