The following are descriptions of the UIA 7 courses that have been developed by the ASCC and are available.
Adoption Then and Now reviews how adoption is viewed historically and how it has changed over time, dispels myths related to adoption, and helps HBS educate patients/clients about adoption as an option.
Supporting Adolescents enhances HBS understanding of adolescent development and strategies that are important to use when counseling adolescents.
Practicing Cultural Humility trains HBS to offer information and support to help people make informed decisions and direct their destinies within their unique cultural framework.
Complex Circumstances helps HBS be more prepared to explore sources of ambivalence and provide comprehensive support for women facing life circumstances that further impact decision making.
Birth Father Experience provides an understanding of birth father issues and considerations.
Open Adoption reviews the practice of open adoption so that HBS will be more prepared to educate their patients/clients and respond to basic questions about adoption as an option.
Compassion Fatigue identifies causes and symptoms of compassion fatigue, techniques for self-care, and strategies to reduce vulnerability to compassion fatigue.
Adoption Variations, which will incorporate information about intercountry adoption and adoption from foster care.
Developing Adoption Competent/Responsive Policy and Practice, which will enable hospital administrators to build systems within their hospital to equip social work and healthcare providers.
Post Adoption Supports, which will explore the importance of adoptive family support after adoption is finalized and how medical-based staff can help families get connected to this support.
Train-the-Trainer: Conducting In-Person Sessions and
Train-the-Trainer: Conducting Virtual Sessions, which will equip trainees to understand how to utilize this training for others within their hospital-based workplace.
Birth Parent Preparation and Partnering, which will help health-based staff orient birth parents to the best ways to prepare for and partner with health care providers.
Adoptive Parent Preparation and Partnering, which will help health-based staff orient adoptive parents to the best ways to prepare for and partner with health care providers.
