Training:

Navigating Adoption: Relationships Across a Lifetime

Nov 18
Wednesday, November 18, 2026 – 12:00pm
12:00pm - 1:00pm

Adoption professionals spend their days talking about adoption, building frameworks, and guiding others through the process, but lifelong experiences and relationships among adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents vary in complexity and are uniquely their own.

This online panel conversation brings together diverse voices from across the adoption community to explore the intricate, evolving connections between these groups of people. The panelists — an adoptee and her birth mother, an adoptee and her adoptive mother, and a sibling set that was adopted together through foster care — will explore how relationships shift over time, how to respectfully navigate communication and boundaries, and how to have tough conversations around identity, culture, and belonging.
After attending this live webinar, participants will be able to:
  • Analyze the lifelong emotional and psychological impacts of adoption from the distinct perspectives of birth parents, adoptive parents, adoptees, and siblings.
  • Examine current professional standards and communication practices surrounding open adoption to support healthy identity development.
  • Identify strategies to support families navigating complex adoption triad dynamics.
Cost: FREE
Course level: Beginning, Intermediate
Certificate type: This course offers attendance, General Social Work CE, and NY Contact Hours certificates

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Location:

National Council for Adoption (NCFA)

Online Training
Please visit NCFA's website for more information - https://adoptioncouncil.org/resources-and-training/