• Attachment Foundations: Building Secure Bonds in Adoption and Foster Care

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    Building secure attachments with children who have experienced separation, trauma, or loss can be challenging, but deeply rewarding. This webinar offers adoptive, foster, and kinship caregivers, as well as the professionals who support them, a practical and compassionate understanding of how early life experiences shape attachment, behavior, and relationships. The speaker will share evidence-based strategies to build felt safety, repair bonds, and strengthen connections over time, with a focus on supporting children struggling with attachment. The session also explores caregiver attachment styles and how self-awareness of these patterns can help parents strengthen bonds with their children. Participants will leave with actionable tools to foster secure, trusting connections at any stage of placement.

    After attending this live webinar, attendees will be able to:

    • Describe how early experiences of separation, trauma, and loss can impact attachment, behavior, and relational patterns in foster and adopted children.
    • Identify evidence-based strategies that support attachment and bonding for children with histories of trauma, with an emphasis on felt safety, connection, and repair.
    • Explain how a caregiver’s attachment style may be impacted by stress and children’s attachment-related behaviors.
    • Apply knowledge of caregiver attachment patterns to strengthen relational responses and support healing within the parent-child relationship.

    Target audience: Pre-adoptive parents, adoptive parents, new social workers

    Cost: FREE

    Course level: Beginning, Intermediate

    Certificate type: This course offers attendance, Social Work CE, and NY Contact Hours certificates

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    National Council For Adoption, #1804, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 04/13/2023 – 04/13/2026. Social workers completing this course receive 1.5 general continuing education credits.




    Sponsor

    This FREE live webinar is sponsored by the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption.

    Live Chat and Q&A

    This interactive webinar allows participants to engage with others and ask questions through chat and Q&A features. At the end of the presentation, the speaker will engage in an interactive Q&A, where they will answer questions and provide clarity on topics covered.

    Certificate Details

    Certificates will be provided two weeks from the live webinar date. Everyone who attended for the entire webinar will receive an attendance certificate. If you are seeking social work CE credit, a complete evaluation is also required. This course does not offer credit for NJ social workers.

    Webinar Recording

    This free, live webinar will be recorded and available on our Adoption Learning Hub at www.adoption.talentlms.com two weeks after the webinar. A link to the recorded course will be provided via email to all webinar registrants. The course will cost $20 for nonmembers and 50% off for members.

    Presentation Slides & Handouts

    All presentation slides and handouts will be provided to attendees during the live webinar. They will also be provided in a follow up email two weeks after the webinar concludes.