Membership Spotlight: North American Council on Adoptable Children

About the North American Council on Adoptable Children:

Through advocacy, adoption support, leadership development, and education the North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC) works to ensure all children in foster care have permanent, loving families and adoptive families have the support they need. NACAC advocates for policies and practices that improve children’s chances of having a permanent, loving family, and that adoptive families have the support they need to help children heal from their past experiences. NACAC is a resource to inform and inspire policymakers working to improve outcomes for children and families. We also ensure that the voices of those most affected by policies and practices—the youth and parents touched by the system—are seen and heard during child welfare reform.

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Resources:

Parenting:

• Parents As Changemakers: Effective Policy Advocacy Webinar

• Self-Care for Support Leaders and Caregivers Webinar

• Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders from a Trauma Lens Webinar

• Parenting from the Trenches Webinar

• Positive Identity Formation and Community Connectedness for Children and Youth in Transracial Placements Webinar

• Helping Children Manage Feelings and Behaviors Webinar

• Parenting the Hurt Child Webinar

• The Teen Years: Brain Development, Impact of Trauma on Growth, and Parenting Strategies Webinar

Adoption Assistance:

• Advocating for Adoption Assistance Webinar

• Adoption Assistance Eligibility and Benefits Webinar

Adoption Practice:

• Transforming the Adoptive and Foster Care Placements of Children Through the National Electronic Interstate Compact Enterprise Webinar

• Improving Safety, Permanency, and Well-Being for LGBTQ Youth Webinar

• Behavioral Interventionist Model: Keeping Children with Extreme Challenges Home for Treatment Webinar

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