Services

Parent Education

The Family Network, Inc. has created an education program suitable for families who have adopted or will be adopting. Through workshops, parent support groups, online trainings and networking with other educational groups, we provide ongoing support and education for families.

*TFN follows the Hague guidelines regarding educational opportunities.

Suggested Readings for Intercountry Adoption

Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control: A Love-Based Approach to Helping Attachment-Challenged Children With Severe Behaviors, by Heather T. Forbes

Parenting from the Inside Out, by Daniel Siegel

Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today’s Parents, by Deborah D. Gray

Suggested Online Training

Adoption Learning Partners: Various online adoption trainings.

National Council for Adoption: Intercountry adoption online preparation course.

Parenting for Attachment Workshop

Prior to their child’s placement, The Family Network prepares families who are adopting internationally on how to handle attachment related issues, by hosting an Attachment Workshop. Adoptive families participate in this a one-day Parenting for Attachment Workshop, which is held every six weeks on a Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., typically at the office of The Family Network.

The next workshop date is scheduled for January 28, 2012, at The Family Network office (Soquel, California).

The Attachment Workshop is presented by Georgia Leonard, MSW. As a mother to six children, two of whom are biological and four who were adopted, Georgia has years of insight and stories to share which make the Attachment Workshop educational and fun!

The Attachment Workshop covers the following topics:

Current research on infant brain development;
Effects of trauma on the developing neurons & neuro-receptors before & after birth
Post-traumatic stress reactions: the cause and cure;
Dyadic resonance – mother/infant attunement;
Affect regulation resulting from periods of intense mutual gaze (mother/child); and
Parental influences that help develop “positive affect states” in infant/child, which are critical for the foundation of attachment.

Call or Email to Sign Up:
(831) 462-8954
natalie@adopt-familynetwork.com