Post-Adoption Transitional Support Series
for Parents and Professionals

Adoption Competency Training

Featuring Jeanette Yoffe M.F.T.
Adoption and Foster Care Competent Psychotherapist
Adoptee and Former Foster Youth
Expert in Foster Care and Adoption
Founder of Celia Center

5 hours of Continuing Education ONLINE

1. Watch the Videos - 1 Hour Each Module

2. Take the Test

3. Receive a Certificate of Completion!!!

This package includes access to all five modules of this series ($19.99 if purchased individually):

• "Module 1 - General Experiences with Adopted Children"
  Gain knowledge of a child's core vulnerabilities, "the invisible wounds" in adoption, learn how to support their grief, loss, and learn interventions specifically designed for this population from the book Groundbreaking Interventions: Working with Children, Teens and Families in Foster Care and Adoption Learn more HERE
• "Module 2 – Developmental Issues & Care for Adopted Children Age Birth – 5"
  Learn how to answer a child's questions, what books to read, and how to support their understanding of adoption at this young age.
• "Module 3 – Developmental Issues & Care for Adopted Children Age 6 – 8"
  Learn how this age group makes sense of adoption, what they need to be explained, and learn interventions for answering tough questions.
• "Module 4 – Developmental Challenges of Adopted Children Age 9-12"
  Learn how to support your tween's emotional life, mitigate shame and rejection, and support their new questions pertaining to their story of adoption.
• "Module 5 – Developmental Challenges of Adopted Children Age 12-18"
  Learn the important questions Teens need to be answered, how you can best support them, and help them formulate a greater understanding of their identity to mitigate confusion.

NOTE: -- After purchase, check your receipt for a special link and password that will enable you to watch the videos.

Celia Center Inc is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, CAMFT Provider #121492. The target audience is the following: educators,teachers, health providers, licensed professionals in the community: LMFT’s, LCSW’s, LPCCs, and/or LEP’s.

CEU Certificates are awarded to licensed professionals at the conclusion of the training. Course evaluations are completed before the awarding of CEU's and Certificates.

Continuing Education Hours:

This course does meet the qualifications for One Hour of Continuing Education Credit for the California Board of Registered Nurses, Psychologists, LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Introduction

The series is presented by Jeanette Yoffe, M.A., M.F.T., Marriage and Family Therapist, founder and executive director of the Celia Center.

Celia Center is a Los Angeles-based non-profit organization that provides therapy and special services for the whole constellation of foster-related people: from foster children to adult foster children, from foster parents to hopeful parents of orphaned or foster children, from adoptive parents to birth parents.

About Celia Center

At Celia Center we address the critical mental health needs of anyone connected by foster care and/or adoption. We provide support groups, conferences, special events, workshops for adoptees, foster youth alumni children, parents thinking about adoption, foster parents, adoptive parents, and birth parents -- so we include all members of the constellation to provide the support that is a lifelong process . . .
-- Jeanette Yoffe, M.A., M.F.T., Executive Director, Celia Center