GRANT DEADLINE: Becky Fawcett @helpusadopt.org is now accepting adoption grant applications for the FEBRUARY 2015 grant cycle. HelpUsAdopt.org supports ALL families including Muslim, Jewish, LGBT and single parent families.
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All For You!! If you are a Hopscotch Family, we have something great to share with you - for FREE! As a proud sponsor of Creating A Family website, our client families are provided FREE access to their vast library of radio podcasts. The library covers a vast range of adoption related topics that you will not find anywhere else. As a bonus, you can opt to receive educational credit hours and a certificate with a password issued to each of our clients - again, free to Hopscotch client families.
To access the adoption learning center on the Creating a Family website:
Hopscotch clients can access the adoption education courses by going to the learning center at http://www.creatingafamily.org/learning-center.html
Each individual will need to create an account with a username and password (see the blue link in the upper right hand corner of the webpage for creating a new account)
Once you have logged in with you individual username and password you'll have access to listen to all the courses - for FREE!
As a sponsoring agency, our clients have access to the quiz/certificate option for each course. You'll just need to click on the quiz icon next to a particular course listing. You'll then be prompted for a course password that is unique to Hopscotch clients. You'll need to contact Megan for your password to receive your certificate after completion of each podcast and quiz. Be sure to print your certificate after each podcast quiz.
Here's a podcast sample:
We tell people to work through their grief at not having a biological child or being pregnant or breastfeeding BEFORE they adopt. The reality is that sometimes after adopting a baby adoptive parents still crave the experience of pregnancy and still feel sad at not having a genetic connection to their child. Host Dawn Davenport will interview Carole Lieber Wilkins, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in the field of reproductive medicine, adoption and family building options since 1986. She is known for helping patients transition to non-genetic forms of family building, such as donor conception or adoption. Having created her family through adoption and ovum donation, Carole brings a wealth of personal as well as professional experience to her work. Highlights from this show.
by: Robin Sizemore, Executive Director of Hopscotch Adoptions, Inc
If you are a Hopscotch Family, we have something great to share with you - for FREE! As a proud sponsor of Creating A Family website, our client families are provided FREE access to their vast library of radio podcasts. The library covers a vast range of adoption related topics that you will not find anywhere else. As a bonus, you can opt to receive educational credit hours and a certificate with a password issued to each of our clients - again, free to Hopscotch client families.
To access the adoption learning center on the Creating a Family website:
Hopscotch clients can access the adoption education courses by going to the learning center at http://www.creatingafamily.org/learning-center.html
Each individual will need to create an account with a username and password (see the blue link in the upper right hand corner of the webpage for creating a new account)
Once you have logged in with you individual username and password you'll have access to listen to all the courses - for FREE!
As a sponsoring agency, our clients have access to the quiz/certificate option for each course. You'll just need to click on the quiz icon next to a particular course listing. You'll then be prompted for a course password that is unique to Hopscotch clients. You'll need to contact Megan for your password to receive your certificate after completion of each podcast and quiz. Be sure to print your certificate after each podcast quiz.
Here's a podcast sample:
Interview with Dr. Ross Greene, Associate Professor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and author of The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children. How to help children, all kids, including adopted children, learn to control their frustration and anger. Highlights from this
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If you are a Hopscotch Family, we have something great to share with you - for FREE! As a proud sponsor of Creating A Family website, our client families are provided FREE access to their vast library of radio podcasts. The library covers a vast range of adoption related topics that you will not find anywhere else. As a bonus, you can opt to receive educational credit hours and a certificate with a password issued to each of our clients - again, free to Hopscotch client families.
To access the adoption learning center on the Creating a Family website:
Hopscotch clients can access the adoption education courses by going to the learning center at http://www.creatingafamily.org/learning-center.html
Each individual will need to create an account with a username and password (see the blue link in the upper right hand corner of the webpage for creating a new account)
Once you have logged in with you individual username and password you'll have access to listen to all the courses - for FREE!
As a sponsoring agency, our clients have access to the quiz/certificate option for each course. You'll just need to click on the quiz icon next to a particular course listing. You'll then be prompted for a course password that is unique to Hopscotch clients. You'll need to contact Megan for your password to receive your certificate after completion of each podcast and quiz. Be sure to print your certificate after each podcast quiz.
Here's a podcast sample:
Join our guest Dr. Katja Rowell, The Feeding Doctor, and author of the new book "Love Me, Feed Me" to talk about some of the common food issues adoptive parents face: hoarding, gorging, pickiness, not eating, etc. Highlights from this show.
If you are a Hopscotch Family, we have something great to share with you - for FREE! As a proud sponsor of Creating A Family website, our client families are provided FREE access to their vast library of radio podcasts. The library covers a vast range of adoption related topics that you will not find anywhere else. As a bonus, you can opt to receive educational credit hours and a certificate with a password issued to each of our clients - again, free to Hopscotch client families.
To access the adoption learning center on the Creating a Family website:
Hopscotch clients can access the adoption education courses by going to the learning center at http://www.creatingafamily.org/learning-center.html
Each individual will need to create an account with a username and password (see the blue link in the upper right hand corner of the webpage for creating a new account)
Once you have logged in with you individual username and password you'll have access to listen to all the courses - for FREE!
As a sponsoring agency, our clients have access to the quiz/certificate option for each course. You'll just need to click on the quiz icon next to a particular course listing. You'll then be prompted for a course password that is unique to Hopscotch clients. You'll need to contact Megan for your password to receive your certificate after completion of each podcast and quiz. Be sure to print your certificate after each podcast quiz.
Here's a podcast sample:
An interview with Craig Juntunen, Founder of Both Ends Burning and Producer of a new documentary on International Adoption, Stuck, to talk about the ethics of international adoption and the delays. Highlights from this show.
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If you are a Hopscotch Family, we have something great to share with you - for FREE! As a proud sponsor of Creating A Family website, our client families are provided FREE access to their vast library of radio podcasts. The library covers a vast range of adoption related topics that you will not find anywhere else. As a bonus, you can opt to receive educational credit hours and a certificate with a password issued to each of our clients - again, free to Hopscotch client families.
To access the adoption learning center on the Creating a Family website:
Hopscotch clients can access the adoption education courses by going to the learning center at http://www.creatingafamily.org/learning-center.html
Each individual will need to create an account with a username and password (see the blue link in the upper right hand corner of the webpage for creating a new account)
Once you have logged in with you individual username and password you'll have access to listen to all the courses - for FREE!
As a sponsoring agency, our clients have access to the quiz/certificate option for each course. You'll just need to click on the quiz icon next to a particular course listing. You'll then be prompted for a course password that is unique to Hopscotch clients. You'll need to contact Megan for your password to receive your certificate after completion of each podcast and quiz. Be sure to print your certificate after each podcast quiz.
Here's a podcast sample:
What does the latest research show on the emotional and mental health of adopted children? How do adoptees fare later in life? Our guest is Dr. Kathleen Whitten, a developmental psychologist and adoptive mother who researches the mental health of adopted children. She has been a lecturer in psychology at Georgia State University and at the University of Virginia, where she was also a research faculty member at the Child-Parent Attachment Clinic, Department of Psychiatric Medicine. She was named a Distinguished Fellow in Developmental Psychology by the National Council for Adoption in Washington, D.C. She is also the author of Labor of the Heart: A Parent’s Guide to the Decisions and Emotions in Adoption. Highlights from this show.
If you are a Hopscotch Family, we have something great to share with you - for FREE! As a proud sponsor of Creating A Family website, our client families are provided FREE access to their vast library of radio podcasts. The library covers a vast range of adoption related topics that you will not find anywhere else. As a bonus, you can opt to receive educational credit hours and a certificate with a password issued to each of our clients - again, free to Hopscotch client families.
To access the adoption learning center on the Creating a Family website:
Hopscotch clients can access the adoption education courses by going to the learning center at http://www.creatingafamily.org/learning-center.html
Each individual will need to create an account with a username and password (see the blue link in the upper right hand corner of the webpage for creating a new account)
Once you have logged in with you individual username and password you'll have access to listen to all the courses - for FREE!
As a sponsoring agency, our clients have access to the quiz/certificate option for each course. You'll just need to click on the quiz icon next to a particular course listing. You'll then be prompted for a course password that is unique to Hopscotch clients. You'll need to contact Megan for your password to receive your certificate after completion of each podcast and quiz. Be sure to print your certificate after each podcast quiz.
Here's a podcast sample:
For years parents have followed the Beyond Consequences: A Love Based Approach to Helping Children with Severe Behaviors to help their children at home. But how can this approach be used in the school setting. Our guest is Heather Forbes, co-founder of the Beyond Consequences Institute, author of Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control: A Love-based Approach for Helping Children With Severe Behaviors, and mom to two children adopted as toddlers from Russia. Highlights from this show.
