Free Trainings
We know you care deeply about the needs of your clients. We recognize that counseling clients who are facing an unplanned pregnancy can present a unique challenge. We would like to offer the support you need to make this process easier. Open Adoption & Family Services (OA&FS) offers free, interactive trainings for groups of any size, at any location in Oregon or Washington.
Our presentation can be as long or a short as your schedule allows, from 10 minutes to half a day, depending on your needs and circumstances. Our longer trainings are highly interactive and include small and large group discussions, values clarification and role play scenarios. Participants leave with action steps of how to incorporate the new information into their work.
We welcome the opportunity to collaborate with you! Please call us toll free at 1-800-772-1115 to schedule a training for you and your coworkers.
Training Topics
OA&FS is the regional expert at providing professionals with all-options pregnancy counseling and infant adoption skills training. Our agency completes more infant placements per year than any other adoption agency in the Northwest, and we specifically specialize in open adoptions. Our trainings provide up-to-date and thorough information about Oregon and Washington adoption practices.
These sessions prepare professionals to skillfully incorporate adoption into their all-options counseling programs, and allow them to provide accurate information to their clients. Through our collaboration with Healthy Start, Planned Parenthood and Backline, we are in a unique position to sensitively address these topics. In 2009 and 2010, we partnered with Backline, Planned Parenthood and the Center for Health Training to offer the Pregnancy Options Dialogue, a workshop for professionals in offering all-options pregnancy counseling.
Each OA&FS presentation will cover as many of the following topics as you desire, according to your needs and interests:
- Open adoption as an alternative to state adoption
- Training in offering all-options pregnancy counseling
- What’s new in the way adoption is practiced today?
- How does open adoption work?
- How to talk to teens about adoption.
- Open adoption relationships: Hear from a panel of birthparents who are living open adoptions.
- Legal issues: the role of birthfathers in adoptions.
- Placing older children (ages 2 to 18 months) in open adoptions.
- The hospital experience in an open adoption.
- Attorney vs. agency adoptions.