Parent Support
Whether you are newly home or your children now have children of their own, every new step in the adoption journey allows for opportunities to learn and grow as a family. The journey of parenthood is a road of hills and valleys and one on which we hope to travel alongside you. Our parenting support courses, workshops, and resources aim to help empower parents to confidently approach new challenges and provide you with tools to help build and maintain healthy connections with your children.
Workshops & Classes
The Park offers quarterly workshops and class series to help parents continue to fortify their parenting toolbox. Open to all parents, but tailored to adoptive parents.
Training Modules
The Park’s parent training modules are produced to help adoptive parents work through key challenges and stages of the adoption journey with their family.
Online Conversations
The Park hosts regular podcast and webinar conversations with adoption professionals, licensed social workers, parents, and adoptees to explore various hot topics that often color the adoption experience.
Toolkits
The Park and CCAI have published toolkits to help parents consider and prepare for specific support scenarios for their children.
The New Normal – Sibling Dynamics
Online Only
Bringing a new child home creates an exciting, but challenging new normal for your family. Our quarterly The New Normal workshop series explores common challenges that might arise in the first year (or three) home with your new child.
Sibling Dynamics
June 6, 13, 20, 27
5:00PM – 6:30PM
Workshops & Classes
We will keep this space updated with The Park’s ongoing parenting support workshop and class offerings. Please also check our Calendar for events on the horizon.
TBRI Caregiver Training Series
Online Only
TBRI Caregiver Training equips families and their children with the tools needed to develop secure attachments, empower healthy growth, and begin to heal. All families welcome!
Spring 2024 Session – Wednesdays
April 17, 24
May 1, 29
June 5, 12, 19, 26
Training Modules
Learning together on this lifelong journey.
Helpful modules for all stages of parenthood, at your own pace.
Refresh & Reenforce
Welcome Home Training Series
The first year home with your new child can be a trying one, filling with new growth opportunities for all family members. This training is part of our Welcome Home series and focuses on refreshing and reenforcing healthy connections between each family member.
The Adoption Pod
Every Other Month
Adopteen and Beyond Adopteen have Chapters across the country, with bimonthly meet-ups scheduled throughout the year
Online Conversations
An open ear and a cup of tea can turn a day around.
Positive and empowering connection spaces for adoptees to celebrate, inspire, and take pride in their community.
Remote Connections
Virtual Meet-Ups, Snail Mail Pen Pals, and More
With so many friends around the world, thank goodness we’re able to connect in more ways to share some much-needed quality time.
AdopTween Hangouts
(ages 8-12)
AdopTween Pen Pals
(ages 8-12)
Adopteen Tea-Time
(ages 13-17)
Beyond Adopteen Chats
(ages 18+)
Parenting Toolkits
In collaboration with our CCAI adoption teammates, we are proud to provide ongoing support toolkits for parents in the process of adoption as well as post adoption.Â
Toolkit for Adoption an Older Child I
Toolkit for Adopting an Older Child I is written to provide prospective adoptive parents with information to allow for realistic, flexible, and fluid expectations when adopting and parenting an older child. It is important to approach older child adoptions with adequate preparation.
Toolkit for Adoption an Older Child II
Toolkit for Adopting an Older Child IIÂ is written as a continuation of its predecessor, designed to provide a deeper look at adopted older children and their needs when entering a new family.
Ukraine Caregiver Toolkit
As the war in Ukraine has put adoption plans on pause for so many, the shift to crisis support may prove to be overwhelming and bring up difficult feelings. The Ukraine Caregiver Toolkit offers guidance on how to be the best support for both yourself, your family at home, and the children in Ukraine.
Approaching Your Child’s History: A Toolkit for Parents Adopting from China
Approaching Your Child’s History: A Toolkit for Parents Adopting from China hopes to help parents find confidence and affirmation when approaching hard conversations with and about their children and their unknown histories.
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