Executive functions in the brain help children develop skills of teamwork, decision-making, critical thinking, adaptability, and emotional intelligence. Many children with a history of prenatal exposures, stress/trauma, and foster care or adoption have learning difficulties, especially problems with higher-order learning. This talk will help you identify lagging executive skills and support children better, at home and at school.

Participants will learn about the frustration cycle of adoption, acquire knowledge of the non-verbal effects of adoption, learn how a child's history can impact current behavior and emotions and learn about family protective factors and action plans for parents.

Participants will learn how a new adoptive parent can experience similar features of postpartum depression. This webinar will review symptoms, treatment, risk factors...

Bethany Christian Services is please to offer training resources specifically developed for adoptive parents about brain development and trauma as it relates to...

During this 90-minute webinar, therapist and post-adoption specialist Kimberly Reist presents helpful tips for parenting biological children who were adopted...

For many Christian adoptive parents, when asked why they chose to adopt, the answer is a simple and short reply "We felt called to adopt". But what is...

Positive change happens when we bring and keep families together. That’s why we support families struggling to stay together by providing the resources and training they need to lead their family to self-sufficiency.

With three churches for every U.S. child in foster care waiting to be adopted, the American Church could end the foster care crisis. But fear and misinformation stop some Christians from embracing foster care adoption.