Here is the outline of what we learned/talked about last
Saturday at our Adoption Seminar!
- Legal Issues: Legal Terms, Adoption Law, Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Multi Ethnic Placement Act, and Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA)
- Preparing for Adoption: Fertility Issues, Birthparents, Adoption is a Lifelong process
- Adoptive Parent Speakers: The Apperleys (great "real life" adoption story!)
- The Adoption Process: Modes of Adoption, Home Study Process, Profiles & Matches, Placement Packet and Finalization
- Grief and Loss: Managing Grief & Loss...
- SIDS/Shaken Baby Syndrome: How to prevent...
It was a lot of information, but a good day nonetheless. The next thing for us is to get our fire
inspection, environmental inspection and then our homestudy, so our free time
is consumed by getting rid of stuff and cleaning, cleaning, CLEANING! :) Will post our new “to-do” list soon.
Happy Good Friday!
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