Nebraska Adoption Requirements
Licensing Requirement 005.16
The State of Nebraska does not accredit courses used for compliance for 005.16 Recruitment, Training, and Screening of Adoptive Applicants required by the State of Nebraska used for pre-service training to be provided to adoptive families; therefore, Creating a Family does not warrant or guarantee that the State of Nebraska will accept our courses as evidence of compliance with these training requirements. We have done our best to create courses that we believe will prepare parents and staff for domestic adoption, intercountry adoption, and older or medically fragile children as required by the State of Nebraska. Licensing requirement 005.16(D) requires training on the listed content checklist as applicable to the type of adoption. We have spoken with agencies in Nebraska about which requirements that state finds applicable to the different types of adoption and our packages are designed accordingly. If you have been told to include training on other requirements for your adoptions, please contact us and we can suggest additional courses to cover those content topics.
For your convenience only, we have included the content topics that we believe our courses can be used to achieve at least partial compliance with the requirements; however, adoption service providers must decide for themselves. Our inclusion of these content topics implies that we believe that the course addresses some of the topics in the specified regulatory section and does not imply that the course can fulfill that regulation.
For information specific to Nebraska, go to the Child Welfare Information Gateway State Search site to find information on the Nebraska requirements on background checks, consent to adoption, home study requirements, post-adoption contact agreements, adoption expense regulations, use of advertising, and who may adopt or place a child for adoption.
Nebraska Domestic Infant Adoption Package includes:
- Introduction to Domestic Infant Adoption
- Evaluating Risk Factors in Domestic Adoption
- Introduction to Prenatal Substance Exposure
- What You Need to Know About Open Adoption When You're Thinking About Adoption
- Coming to Terms with Infertility Grief Before You Foster or Adopt
- Should You Consider Adopting a Child of a Different Race or Ethnicity?
- Basic Baby Care
- 7 Core Issues in Adoption & Foster Care
- Talking with Young Children About Adoption and Birth Parents
- Introduction to Attachment
- Transitioning Home as a Newly Adoptive Parent
- Open Adoption: Handling Difficult Birth Parent Situations
- Practical Tips for Disciplining While Maintaining Attachment
- Unexpected Stresses for Newly Adoptive Parents
- How Do Transracial Adoptees Develop a Racial Identity
- Legal Process of Domestic Adoption: What You Need to Know Before You Adopt
- Parent Supervision
| Requirements Licensing requirement 005.16(D) |
Nebraska Domestic Infant Package |
|---|---|
| (1) Attachment and bonding issues; |
Coming to Terms with Infertility Before You Foster or Adopt Introduction to Attachment Practical Tips for Discipling While Maintaining Attachment |
(2) Loss and grief issues, as applicable for all parties to the adoption; |
What You Need to Know About Open Adoption When You're Thinking About Adoption Coming to Terms with Infertility Before You Foster or Adopt 7 Core Issues in Adoption & Foster Care Transitioning Home as a Newly Adoptive Family Unexpected Stresses for Newly Adoptive Parents |
(3) Adoption as a lifelong issue as it pertains to all parties to the adoption; |
Introduction to Domestic Infant Adoption What You Need to Know About Open Adoption When You're Thinking About Adoption Transitioning Home as a Newly Adoptive Family Open Adoption: Handling Difficult Birth Parent Situations Unexpected Stresses for Newly Adoptive Parents |
| (4) Key concepts of child growth and development; |
Basic Baby Care Talking with Young Children about Adoption and Birth Parents |
| (5) Boundary setting and discipline; |
Practical Tips for Discipling While Maintaining Attachment |
| (6) Parenting a child of different cultural or racial background infancy through adulthood, if applicable; |
Should You Consider Adopting a Child of a Different Race or Ethnicity? How do Transracial Adoptees Develop a Healthy Racial Identity |
| (7) Disclosure issues including the accuracy of family history information regarding the child and birth parent’s family, discussion with the child and sharing information with others; |
Talking with Young Children about Adoption and Birth Parents |
| (8) Adoption laws and procedures, including termination of parental rights; |
Introduction to Domestic Infant Adoption Legal Process of Domestic Adoption |
| (9) On-going contact and communication of a child and adoptive family with biological family and significant individuals, if applicable; |
What You Need to Know About Open Adoption When You're Thinking About Adoption Open Adoption: Handling Difficult Birth Parent Situations |
| (11) Medical and health issues including, but not limited to, shaken baby syndrome, parental substance abuse, relevant environmental issues, and genetic risk factors, if applicable; |
Evaluating Risk Factors in Domestic Infant Adoption Introduction to Prenatal Substance Exposure |
| (12) Expectations of adoption and adoptive process; and |
Introduction to Domestic Infant Adoption Transitioning Home as a Newly Adoptive Family Unexpected Stresses for Newly Adoptive Parents |
| (13) Supervision appropriate to the age of the child. |
Basic Baby Care Parental Supervision |
Nebraska International Hague Adoption Package includes:
- Introduction to International Adoption
- Evaluating Risk Factors in International Adoption
- Typical Behaviors of Children Adopted Internationally
- Introduction to Prenatal Substance Exposure
- Health, Emotional, and Developmental Issues Common to Children Adopted Internationally
- Transitioning Home as a Newly Adoptive Family
- Parenting Children Who Have Experienced Trauma
- Should You Consider Adopting a Child of a Different Race or Ethnicity
- Helping Internationally Adopted Children Develop a Healthy Cultural and Racial Identity
- Practical Tips for Disciplining While Maintaining Attachment
- Introduction to Attachment
- Talking with Kids about Adoption at Different Ages
- Talking About the Difficult Parts of Your Child's History
- Unexpected Stresses for Newly Adoptive Parents
- What You Need to Know About Open Adoption When You're Thinking About Adoption
- Parent Supervision
| Requirements Licensing requirement 005.16(D) |
Nebraska International Package |
|---|---|
| (1) Attachment and bonding issues; |
Health, Emotional, and Developmental Issues Common to Children Adopted Internationally Introduction to Attachment Practical Tips for Discipling While Maintaining Attachment |
(2) Loss and grief issues, as applicable for all parties to the adoption; |
Health, Emotional, and Developmental Issues Common to Children Adopted Internationally Typical Behaviors of Children Adopted Internationally Parenting Children Who Have Experienced Trauma Transitioning Home as a Newly Adoptive Family Unexpected Stresses for Newly Adoptive Parents Talking About the Difficult Parts of Your Child's History |
(3) Adoption as a lifelong issue as it pertains to all parties to the adoption; |
Introduction to International Adoption Transitioning Home as a Newly Adoptive Family Unexpected Stresses for Newly Adoptive Parents |
| (4) Key concepts of child growth and development; |
Health, Emotional, and Developmental Issues Common to Children Adopted Internationally Typical Behaviors of Children Adopted Internationally Parenting Children Who Have Experienced Trauma |
| (5) Boundary setting and discipline; |
Practical Tips for Discipling While Maintaining Attachment Parenting Children Who Have Experienced Trauma |
| (6) Parenting a child of different cultural or racial background infancy through adulthood, if applicable; |
Should You Consider Adopting a Child of a Different Race or Ethnicity? Helping Internationally Adopted Children Develop a Healthy Cultural and Racial Identity |
| (7) Disclosure issues including the accuracy of family history information regarding the child and birth parent’s family, discussion with the child and sharing information with others; |
Talking with Kids about Adoption at Different Ages Talking About the Difficult Parts of Your Child's History |
| (8) Adoption laws and procedures, including termination of parental rights; |
Introduction to International Adoption Health, Emotional, and Developmental Issues Common to Children Adopted Internationally |
| (9) On-going contact and communication of a child and adoptive family with biological family and significant individuals, if applicable; |
What You Need to Know About Open Adoption When You're Thinking About Adoption |
| (10) Possible current and future use of community resources, including help with parenting techniques; |
Health, Emotional, and Developmental Issues Common to Children Adopted Internationally |
| (11) Medical and health issues including, but not limited to, shaken baby syndrome, parental substance abuse, relevant environmental issues, and genetic risk factors, if applicable; |
Evaluating Risk Factors in International Adoption Introduction to Prenatal Substance Exposure Typical Behaviors in Children Adopted Internationally Health, Emotional, and Developmental Issues Common to Children Adopted Internationally |
| (12) Expectations of adoption and adoptive process; and |
Introduction to International Adoption Health, Emotional, and Developmental Issues Common to Children Adopted Internationally Transitioning Home as a Newly Adoptive Family Unexpected Stresses for Newly Adoptive Parents |
| (13) Supervision appropriate to the age of the child. |
Parenting Children Who Have Experienced Trauma Typical Behaviors of Children Adopted Internationally Parental Supervision |
Additional Training for Children Over 12 Months or Medically Fragile Package (4 hours)
Additional Training for Children Over 12 Months or Medically Fragile Package Package includes:
- 7 Core Issues in Adoption & Foster Care
- Helping Adopted Children Heal From Past Trauma and Loss
- Practical Tips for Disciplining Children Who Have Experienced Trauma
- What Is It Really Like to Raise a Child with FASD?
| Requirements Licensing requirement 005.16(D) |
Medically Fragile or Children Over 12 Months Package |
|---|---|
| (1) Parenting a child that has been abused or neglected; |
Helping Adopted Children Heal From Past Trauma and Loss Practical Tips for Disciplining Children Who Have Experienced Trauma |
(2) Parenting a physically, mentally, developmentally, or emotionally delayed child; and |
What Is It Really Like to Raise a Child with FASD? |
(3) The impact of frequent moves and multiple caregivers on the development of a child. |
7 Core Issues |