Pre-Adoption Training & Education

Pre-adoption education resources for those hoping to adopt, whether through the foster care system, private agencies, or independent adoption.

Pre-Adoption Parenting Classes: Are They Necessary?
Those adopting through the U.S. foster care system are required to take parenting classes as part of their homestudy process, and while some private agencies are adding this requirement, many agencies and attorneys do not require adoptive parent preparation classes.

Adoption Learning Partners
This new (2002) resource for online adoption education offers an excellent (and growing) selection of courses for adoptive families including "Conspicuous Families: Race, Culture & Adoption." New courses address the adoption tax credit and talking with children.

Adoption Road Map Family Preparation Course
From The Learning Center, this is an excellent course for future adoptive parents. It is an online version of an agency-taught or state adoption department adoption course. TLC is offered by the National Adoption Center. Cost: $100.

FosterParentTraining.com
Complete training course, except for hands-on certification and CPR requirements, for future foster and adoptive (in many states) parents. One year membership: $24 (reimbursable in many cases).

Foster Parent Training Online
The entire FosterParentscope Training program is presented in this award-winning Web site from Washington State. Adapted from the SUNY Fosterparentscope curriculum.

MAPP Training
(Model Approach to Partnerships in Parenting) Description of classes for those approaching adoption and foster parenting through their state public agencies.