The most effective advocacy efforts are those that bring together both disparate and like-minded advocates, who can speak with one voice. For Advocates for Families First, the ability to unite youth, kin caregivers, foster, and adoptive parents is essential to our success. For others, it may be the missing link to your efforts as well… More
Presenters share successful Florida advocacy efforts to pass the state’s “Normalcy Bill” to create a more supportive and normative growing up experience for children and youth in foster care. The law allows foster and kin caregivers to make prudent parental decisions about activities that their foster and kin children participate in, without having to seek… More
This webinar is dedicated to improving public perception of kinship, foster, and adoptive caregivers and their children and youth. Too often, media portrayals of this population – whether in the news, TV or movies – are negative. We want to change the messaging around these issues and the language used. This webinar covers: a brief… More
Have questions about how to claim the adoption tax credit? NACAC’s adoption tax credit expert, Josh Kroll, presents a webinar on the federal adoption tax credit outlining the steps to file for the adoption credit. The focus is on filing for the 2016 tax year, but also covers applying for the credit for adoptions… More
Do you want to create or enhance an adoptive parent support group? Do you think training of your leaders or members will improve your ability to accomplish your goals? If so, NACAC is here to help. NACAC is pleased to be able to offer training and technical assistance to parent group leaders to help… More
The Impact of Foster Care and Adoption in Treating Children, Youth, and Families: A Training to Enhance Skills and Improve Outcomes For several years, NACAC has been offering states, provinces, agencies, and others the opportunity to provide Impact of Foster Care and Adoption in Treating Children, Youth, and Families: A Training to Enhance Skills and… More
NACAC offers training for parent groups or agencies about how to best support and inform adoptive parents about the issues of race and culture involved in foster care and adoption. Our goal is to give participants an opportunity to talk about transracial placements in a supportive and honest environment, and to help child welfare systems… More
Gain tools and understanding to become effective advocates, whether you are working on personal needs (case advocacy) or larger issues (class advocacy). Advocates need to develop consensus, value the principle of WII-FM (what’s in it for me), craft a coherent and achievable message, gather meaningful data, and develop an advocacy agenda that can succeed. Presenters… More
Learn how to advocate for adoption assistance programs in your state or province. In these tight financial times, legislators sometimes seek to cut adoption assistance programs and advocates need to be ready to respond. Even if your adoption assistance program is not under threat, proactive advocacy can help maintain and even enhance these important benefits… More
In this session, you will learn the basics of adoption assistance for children adopted from foster care, including eligibility, benefits, taxes, and more. The workshop is designed for both prospective parents seeking to learn more about the support available for the children they adopt and parents who are seeking an adjustment due to a change… More
Sponsor the NACAC Conference and Help Kids in Need of a Permanent, Loving Family! The annual NACAC conference helps sponsors reach more than 11,000 individuals, parents, young adults, and professionals touched by foster care and adoption. Thank you to our 2017 conference sponsors: Co-Host — Georgia Division of Family and Children Services General Sponsors… More
General Information Who should attend NACAC’s 2018 national conference? Adoptive, kinship, and foster parents, child welfare professionals, adoptees, alumni of foster care, and other child advocates. What are the dates of the conference? August 8-10, 2018 (pre-conference session August 7). Please note: the 2018 conference will be held from Wednesday to Friday with the pre-conference… More
NACAC has a wealth of knowledge to share with foster and adoptive parents, adoption professionals, and parent support group leaders in the U.S. and Canada. Our staff present workshops at statewide and national conferences. Our staff trainers have decades of experience helping foster and adoptive parents, as well as social work professionals, learn about adoption… More
Below are links to the recordings of trainings we have held. Some are available for purchase and some are available at no cost. For recorded webinars available for purchase ($15 for NACAC members / $20 for nonmembers), you’ll complete a payment form before you can access the session. For these paid webinars, you can receive… More
Upcoming Webinars On September 21, 2017 at 1 pm central, 2 pm eastern, noon mountain, 11 am pacific, NACAC is offering a free webinar: Getting Your Message Heard: Taking Advantage of National Adoption Awareness Month Participants will learn how to use National Adoption Awareness Month as a way to raise awareness about how your adoptive… More
NACAC is seeking presenters to help parents, professionals, and advocates gain skills and knowledge in adoption-related topics at its 2018 conference. NACAC encourages adoptive and foster parents, child welfare professionals, adoptees, birth parents, former foster youth, researchers, therapists, and other child advocates to submit workshop proposals for the conference that will be held August 8-10… More
Please note these sessions were at the 2017 NACAC conference and are posted below to give you a general idea of the type of sessions that will be offered at the 2018 conference. The 2018 conference will be held from Wednesday to Friday with the pre-conference session on Tuesday. These are different days of the… More
NACAC’s Community Champions Network is able to help local advocates create a plan to advocate for post-adoption services in their community. NACAC has been developing and enhancing adoptive parent support groups and helping implement post-adoption services in the U.S. and Canada for more than 40 years. For many years, our staff have worked on building… More
NACAC has held several online trainings, which are listed below, that can help advocates work to achieve post-adoption and other support services in their communities. And attending the NACAC conference is a great way to learn about post-adoption service models and advocacy strategies… More
Below are online training sessions NACAC has offered related to adoption practice. For more about educational opportunities, visit the Training section of our site. Training… More