Stage One

Below you will find further information about the workshops you will attend as you move through your Adoption journey in Stage 1.  To book a place, please speak to your allocated social worker about availability and specific venue locations.

 

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Prepare to Adopt – Essential Learning

Delivered over four days, our face-to-face course is designed to help you consider whether adoption is right for your family.  It covers a range of adoption topics including: the pathways to adoption and the process, children who wait (considering ethnicity, siblings, and additional needs), bonding and attachment, child development, abuse and trauma, grief and loss, therapeutic parenting, identity, openness and life story work, maintaining links with birth families, transcultural adoption and an introduction to adoption support. This culminates in a live Q&A session with experienced AEM adopters who will talk about their experiences.

Dates (*subject to change)

Time

Venue
14,16,21 and 23 January 2025 All four days from 9.30am - 4.30pm Nottinghamshire
3, 6,10 and 12 February 2025 Derbyshire
11,13,18 and 20 March 2025 Nottinghamshire
1,3,8 and 10 April 2025 Derbyshire
13,15,20 and 22 May 2025 Nottinghamshire
10,12,17 and 19 June 2025 Derbyshire
8,10,15 and 17 July 2025 Nottinghamshire
5,7,12 and 14 August 2025 Derbyshire
9,11,16 and 18 September 2025 Nottinghamshire
7,9,14 and 16 October 2025 Derbyshire
11,13,18 and 20 November 2025 Nottinghamshire
9,11,16 and 18 December 2025 Derbyshire

 

Children and Trauma Community Hub (CATCH) Fostering for Adoption Webinar - Essential Learning

This 30-minute webinar was created for prospective parents in the early stages of the adoption process. It outlines the key aspects of fostering for adoption (a form of early permanence) and how it differs to mainstream adoption. It may also be helpful to show to friends and family to help them to understand the fostering for adoption process.

The video covers:

  • The differences between Fostering for Adoption and mainstream adoption

  • The uncertainty around health and development

  • The fostering role

  • Contact with birth parents and expectations

  • The benefits and challenges of fostering for adoption

To access this session please log onto the CATCH website using your login details (provided to you at the start of Stage 1) and type 'Fostering for Adoption' in the search bar; the screen should look as below:

 

An example of how the page should look on the CATCH website. Text reads: Showing results for fostering for adoption. Webinar: Fostering for adoption. Length: 30 mins. Pact social worker. Ruth Copson explains they key aspects of fostering for adoption (a form of early permanence and how it differs to mainstream adoption.