A course for guardians and adoptive families on staying close to a child after the case closes, through the teen years and into adulthood. A 2-hour training with a certificate.
This is the sixth course in the Family Who Stepped In series. It's for guardians and adoptive parents of any race whose case is already closed. You might have adopted a child from care, become a legal guardian or taken on a relative's child for good. It fits families with a child heading into the teen years, families in the middle of them and families with a young adult who just moved out. If the caseworker visits ended a while ago and your child's questions didn't, this course was written for you.
Please check with your licensing worker or agency about how many hours they accept for self-paced training.
Agencies can license this course for all of their foster and kin families. You can set that up by emailing hello@beyondthemomentadoptionstudio.com.
Michael Gaither is an adult adoptee. He was born in Syracuse, New York, and spent about eighteen months in foster care before he was adopted. He grew up with a white family in Lincoln, Nebraska, and met his birth family in person for the first time at forty-nine.
He spent 30 years in education as a teacher and a principal, and 13 of those years running his own executive leadership coaching business for school principals. His book, I Was Your Black Child: What White Parents Raising Black Children Need to Hear Before It's Too Late, tells the story of growing up Black in a white household. Through Beyond the Moment Adoption Studio, he helps adoptive and foster families understand what their children may be carrying.
