Navigating the Journey of Adoption
These six introductory videos are designed to help families explore whether adoption might be a right choice for their family. These videos offer insight into relevant topics to consider before growing your family through adoption. We recommend viewing them in order, but they can be viewed individually. It will take less than an hour to complete all the videos in this series.
Language and Why It Matters
This 6-minute video helps you navigate terms and language that will bring dignity to children and families, while avoiding terms or labels that are not honoring.
Understanding Trauma
This 8-minute video shares about the trauma children in foster care or who have been adopted have experienced and what this means for parenting them.
Building Your Support Network
This 6-minute video emphasizes the importance of establishing a supportive village who can offer encouragement and help meet the relational needs of the children you welcome into your home whether you plan to foster or adopt.
Openness in Adoption
This 8-minute video explores the concept of open adoption and how that can differ from child to child and as your relationship grows with the biological family.
Transracial & Transcultural Adoption and Foster Care
This 10-minute video helps prepare your hearts, minds, and family to receive children from different races, cultures, and backgrounds.
Ethics in Adoption
This 8-minute video offers insight into ethical practices in the world of adoption that are most honoring to birth parents and children.