Adoptive, foster, and kinship families need current, up-to-date education to build a strong family. Our courses are:
- Engaging
- Affordable
- Fully mobile-friendly
- Expert-based
- Trauma-Informed
- Hague-aligned
The Creating a Family audio courses are conversational, offering families the opportunity to hear a true national expert address the topics parents care about. They include New York Times bestselling authors, leading researchers, adoption-competent therapists, pediatricians, and others who have meaningful wisdom to impart for the foster & adoption journey.
No more power-point, and no more talking heads reading from a pre-written script.
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Parent Training
Our online learning platform offers a variety of courses designed to satisfy pre-adoption home study requirements for families adopting domestically or internationally and the in-service training needs of foster families. Save 40% on our learning packages.
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Social Workers (CE)
Creating a Family is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) #886829466.
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Interactive Training & Support Group Curricula
Expert-based, trauma-informed parent support group curricula with everything you need to run a high-quality online or in-person foster, adoptive, or kinship parent support group. Each Parent Support Group Curriculum covers a different topic relevant to foster, adoptive, and kinship parenting and comes with a video, facilitator guide, handouts, additional resource guide, and certificate of attendance (for foster parent CE).
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What our customers have to say...
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I've taken several of your courses and they have been extremely helpful. Definitely worth the time and money.
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Creating A Family is an absolutely INVALUABLE resource to us. At this point, we have no idea what “our child’s” history/background is, but the info/education we’ve received from you has given us hope and perspective. Thank you!
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Highly recommend for everyone who is on their own journey or are supporting others in building their families.
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New Beginnings International Children's and Family Services, Inc.
The AdoptEd Center: Online Education for Parents has been an invaluable resource for our families both pre- and post-adoption.
Trainings are an essential part of the pre-adoption phase, and we are seeing an increasing number of families realize the value of training and additional resources in post-adoption. The fact that Creating a Family has a wide variety of topics makes it easy for families to find what they need, as well as helping to normalize what the families and children are experiencing.
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I did an online course and loved it!
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Love these courses! I can’t get enough information in my adoption preparation, and these are easy and enjoyable!
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So thorough! Can’t think of anything I would improve.
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Loved the ADHD class!
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The courses were fun and very convenient.
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You offered great resources that broke down the meaning of a lot of my child’s actions and behaviors, which made me think about them in a more helpful, productive way.