Blended Families: Parenting Birth and Adopted Children Together - FOR MEMBERS

Expert-led on demand training course delivered by Jan Way MBE, Training Advisor at CoramIAC and Training Consultant at CVAA

CPD: 2.5 hrs
"Excellent content - right combination of research, practice experience and personal information. I thought this was really high quality training."
"[I liked..] the personal touch of Jan sharing details of her own experiences with adoption and including her birth children in the training. It is so beneficial to have first hand experience and I found I engaged more, knowing it was a personal journey."
"Jan was great! Very engaging and good balance of research and practice."

Description

Families who parent birth and adopted children can face particular challenges in seeking to balance the needs of the children. The views and feelings of the birth child within these blended families is rarely heard and yet if an adoptive placement is to be successful it is key that professionals consider all members of the family and assist adoptive parents in considering some of the adjustments that need to be made.

Learning Outcomes

  • Sibling relationships and how they differ in blended families
  • Considering the birth child’s perspective
  • Key messages from research to inform practice
  • The tools that a practitioner can use in assessment

Meet the trainer

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Jan Way MBE

Training Advisor at CoramIAC and Training Consultant at CVAA
Jan has been a social worker since 1975, working in a range of settings including hospitals, local authorities, and adoption agencies. For the last 30 years she has worked in the adoption field, specialising in intercountry adoption, and working as a senior executive for a national adoption agency and charity. In 2019 she was awarded an MBE for her work in intercountry adoption. She now acts as a practice advisor and research lead for the agency. Jan is also an adopted person and an adoptive mother, having adopted a daughter from South America. In addition to her daughter, who is now 33, she has two grown up birth daughters.
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