As your adopted children head to school — whether for the first time or not — you may wonder how to talk to your children’s teachers about adoption and adoption-related challenges your children face. Heartofthematterseminars.com has prepared a wonderful document to help you think through how to help both your children and their teachers. Download [...]

On August 24, at 6 pm, Nightlight Christian Adoptions is holding a free informational workshop on international, domestic, and embryo adoptions at the main branch of the Lexington Library: 5440 Augusta Road Lexington, SC 29072 Please register here.

I don’t claim to know a ton about attachment and bonding, but we have read a fair amount on the subject and tried to prepare ourselves for anything. If you are waiting for your adoption to be completed right now, spend some time reading about attachment.

Nightlight has a Speakers’ Bureau available to speak in Southern California, Colorado, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. We are available to travel to other states upon special request. We are here to speak on the various topics: • Share the plight of orphans and give your group creative ways to make a difference • [...]

On September 9 at noon ET, Nightlight is conducting an online educational webinar about special needs adoptions from Taiwan and China.

Adoption Learning Partners is offering their Lifebooks Course free of charge during the month of May (certificate of completion costs a fee).

This Saturday there will be a workshop on Embryo Adoptions in North Carolina, sponsored by Nightlight Christian Adoption’s Snowflakes program (more information at our website here). Snowflakes Embryo Adoption Seminar Saturday, March 28, 2009 9:30 – 11:30 AM South County Regional Library Conference Room A 5801 Rea Road, Charlotte, NC Parents and professionals welcome! Listen [...]

Wednesday evening at 9:00 (ET) Carolina Hope is offering a live, interactive online education course on Transracial & Transcultural Adoptions. The cost for this course is only $15. You must sign-up at least 2 hours before the course begins. Additional information on signing up and paying can be found at the Transracial & Transcultural Adoptions [...]

Carolina Hope is offering a live online course this Tuesday (Mar. 10) about Domesticating an International Adoption in South Carolina. Participation requires a phone and an internet connection. Please pay and register before Thursday if you would like to participate. More information on the course contents and on registering is available at the course page.

Tonight from 8:30 – 10 (ET), you can participate in a free online education course about adoption homestudies in South Carolina. Learn more and sign up at the course webpage, The Adoption Homestudy: Starting the Process.

Tomorrow, March 5, at 9 pm (ET). From our course page (which is where you can get info about signing up) In this approximately 90-minutes webinar, we will discuss the practical aspects of traveling to Ethiopia fro adoption, the required paperwork and forms to submit to the U.S. Embassy and how to complete them, and [...]

We now have a calendar on our website to make it easier to keep track of the adoption education events coming up. See it here.

Dr. Karyn Purvis, author of The Connected Child, is the featured speaker at the Connected Child Conference: Bringing Hope and Healing to Your Family, March 6-7 at Calvary Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, NC. More details at The Connected Child website. I have heard Dr. Purvis’s book highly recommended as a resource for parents of adopted [...]

Carolina Hope is offering a live online course this Thursday (Feb. 19) about Domesticating an International Adoption in South Carolina. Participation requires a phone and an internet connection. Please pay and register before Thursday if you would like to participate. More information on the course contents and on registering is available at the course page.

Tomorrow, Feb. 5, at 9 pm (EST), Carolina Hope is offering a live online adoption education course about openness in adoption. Here’s the write-up from the course page: We often hear that families who are considering a domestic adoption are afraid of an “open” adoption. In this 1-and-a-half-hour course, you will learn what an open [...]

This evening at 9:30 (EST) Carolina Hope is offering a live, interactive online education course on Transracial & Transcultural Adoptions. The cost for this course is only $15. You must sign-up at least 2 hours before the course begins. Additional information on signing up and paying can be found at the Transracial & Transcultural Adoptions [...]

Over the course of the next week, you can attend educational workshops on the following adoption topics — all from the comfort of your home: Openness in Adoption (Monday, January 12 at 9 pm) Domesticating an International Adoption in SC (Tuesday, January 13, 8:30 pm) Transracial & Transcultural Adoptions (Wednesday, January 14 at 9 pm) [...]

Carolina Hope is offering a live online course tomorrow (Dec. 9) about Domesticating an International Adoption in South Carolina. Participation requires a phone and an internet connection. Please pay and register today if you would like to participate. More information on the course contents and on registering is available at the course page.

Together for Adoption has posted the audio from their Nov. 1 conference. Check it out at their 2008 Conference Audio page. The audio titles are: Jason Kovacs and Maridel Sandberg – “Conference Welcome and the Christian Alliance for Orphans’ Vision for Orphan Ministry” Dan Cruver – “Adoption in God’s Story of Redemption” Rick Phillips – [...]

Carolina Hope is offering a live online course this Thursday (Nov. 6) about Domesticating an International Adoption in South Carolina. Participation requires a phone and an internet connection. Please pay and register today or Wednesday if you would like to participate. More information on the course contents and on registering is available at the course [...]