COMMUNITY EDUCATION
The Children’s Home of Pittsburgh offers a variety of information sessions, trainings, consultation and continuing education opportunities related to the field of adoption.
Expert adoption staff members, including Master’s level social workers and counselors from The Children’s Home, are available to speak to your group, consult with you or your staff, or train your group on a variety of adoption-related topics including:
- The adoption process today
- Types of adoption
- Understanding legal processes in adoption
- Openness in adoption: definitions and implications
- Adoption in the hospital setting: ethical considerations and best practices
- Research and reunion: legal aspects, and counseling clients through the process
- Birthparent-related topics: coping with grief & loss, sharing the adoption decision with family and friends, living comfortably with the adoption decision, navigating the relationship with adoptive parents in open adoption
- Adoptive family topics: infertility, raising adoptive children, discussing adoption with family/friends/school personnel and others, navigating the relationship with birthparents in open adoption
The Children's Home of Pittsburgh also offers seminars - presented by regional and national experts - for both professionals (counselors, social workers, hospital staff, mental health professionals, and adoption agency staff) and adoptive families (whether your adoption took place with The Children's Home or elsewhere). Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are available for professionals.
Check our
calendar of events for upcoming seminars.
Most community education services are free or available for a nominal fee.