Education Center for Adoptive Parents (ECAP)

This three-part parent training program was created to enhance the competence of adoptive parents and advance the long-term healthy adjustment of adopted children. ECAP offers pre- and post-adoptive parents skills to handle adoption-related issues within their families and communities. ECAP targets factors known to mediate the effects of risk factors on adopted children's outcomes. Creating Family Communication Race, Culture, and Identity Creating Family: helps prospective parents consider the emotional, ethical, financial and legal implications of adopting a child.  It also offers parents opportunities for self-reflection. Prepares parents for the child's emotional, mental and physical transitions into their families. Addresses the importance of child's identity and birth names and what risk factors they may have experienced pre-adoption. Run time: 57 minutes. Communication: provides parents and children tools to better enable them to talk about their story with each other, friends