• Duration

    30 Contact Hours

    National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training for Mental Health Professionals

    Advancing Practice for Permanency & Well-Being!

    The free, web-based training enables you to better address the mental health & developmental needs of children in foster, adoptive, or kinship families. The NTI training can change your practice with the goal of improving well-being and permanency outcomes for youth in foster, adoptive, and guardianship families.

    The National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training for Mental Health Professionals provides the foundational knowledge, values and skills needed to enhance adoption competency for mental health professionals providing or interested in providing therapeutic or clinical services to children, youth and families experiencing adoption or guardianship. Core competencies include understanding and addressing the complex and often nuanced mental health needs of children experiencing adoption and guardianship, with a focus on the impact of grief and loss, trauma, attachment, identity challenges, and the need for connection and
    belonging.

    In addition to sharing clinical best practices in assessment and treatment and therapeutic parenting strategies, NTI provides an overview of evidence-based and evidence-informed treatment models that have been shown to be effective in helping children and youth heal from trauma and strengthen attachments. 
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    Enhance your foundation of knowledge, values, and skills for adoption competent clinical practice!

    • Goes beyond available training on trauma with focus on clinical practice to effectively address core underlying issues of adoption (e.g. attachment and grief and loss).
    • Helps you learn and apply evidence-based practices, clinical assessments and therapeutic parenting strategies. available training on trauma, with focus on clinical practice to effectively address core underlying issues of adoption (e.g. attachment and grief and loss).
    • Gives you resources to utilize your new knowledge and skills to expand your practice.
    • Enables you to more effectively address the unmet needs of families moving toward or having achieved permanency through adoption, guardianship, kinship or customary adoption.
    • Helps you gain foundational knowledge, values, and skills for adoption competent practice.
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    C.A.S.E. Training Institute


    C.A.S.E. National Training Institute is the culmination of more than 25 years of hands-on clinical expertise with foster, adoptive, and kinship families. Informed by the power of this experience, C.A.S.E. has become a national leader in adoption, foster and kinship competency trainings to enhance the capacity and competency of child welfare, mental health and school professionals from foundational understanding to comprehensive, clinical skills.


    NTI was funded through a cooperative agreement (#90CO1121) and (#90CO1145) between the Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, US Department of Health and Human Services, and the Center for Adoption Support and Education (C.A.S.E.).