National Council For Adoption

Adoption-Sensitive Clinical Care project - This grant program is designed to help hospital-based staff understand and support the complex needs of expectant parents facing unintended pregnancies as well as those in the process of making an adoption plan for their child. With the guidance of a national advisory committee and the oversight of the federal Children's Bureau, the project team has updated and delivered the Understanding Infant Adoption curriculum online in the first of four different training lengths, as well as developed recommendations for three shorter training lengths, all of which will confer continuing medical education and social work continuing education credits for those who complete the training. The project team has updated and received federal approval to deliver six supplemental deep-dives into adoption-related topics and drafted two new supplemental modules. Data is being collected throughout the project to measure its effectiveness.

Education and communication - NCFA offers free and low-cost webinars to expectant and current adoptive parents, adoption professionals, and other interested parties, training more than 3,000 people each year. NCFA also carries out communications campaigns to help the public better understand adoption and the needs of adoption families, communicating through national, regional, local, and special-interest media. NCFA provides social work CE through webinars and our conference, equipping social workers with high-quality, adoption-competent material. NCFA's e-publication of topical articles, the adoption advocate, offers critical information on relevant topics for those connected to adoption.

Various other programs including: Research, Legislative Action, National Training and Development Curriculum, and General Programs.

Constituent Services- NCFA serves our member adoption agencies and attorneys, with education, networking, and advocacy resources. We participated in meetings with congressional staff, federal government personnel, think-tanks, institutions of higher learning, and others in the education and child welfare-oriented community.