Right-Time
Life Story: Birth Story and Adoption Story

This training helps adoptive parents understand the importance of having ongoing conversations with their children about their birth and adoption story. The theme discusses how empowering children with the missing pieces of their story can help them build trust in family relationships, and can lead to stronger connections with birth family members. In this theme, adoptive parents learn how to have on-going conversation with their children about their life story that is done in an open fashion.
Right-Time Training series

Acknowledgements

The National Training and Development Curriculum for Foster and Adoptive Parents (NTDC) was funded through a five-year cooperative agreement with Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Children’s Bureau. This cooperative agreement was led by Spaulding for Children in close partnership with the following: 
  • Center for Adoption Support and Education
  • The North American Council on Adoptable Children
  • National Council for Adoption
  • ChildTrauma Academy
  • The University of Washington