The Understanding Infant Adoption training curriculum is designed to help health care professionals serving pregnant women and teens discuss adoption as an option with patients/clients who are not sure that they want to parent the child.
Curriculum topics include:

Personal and professional values

  • Patient/Client directed options counseling
  • Nondirective, non-coercive intervention techniques
  • Adoption law and practice
  • Birthfathers' rights and responsibilities
  • Cultural responsiveness
  • Special issues in counseling teens
  • Networking and collaboration with adoption and pregnancy counseling
    professionals.

The curriculum delivery methodology includes lecture, discussion, demonstration, team activities, and video case vignettes. A one day or a two day version of the curriculum is available.

The one day curriculum is approved for 6.6 contact hours and the two day curriculum is approved for 13.2 contact hours by the Michigan Nurses Association which is accredited as an approver of continuing education in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center Commission on Accreditation.

Funding for this curriculum is provided by Cooperative Agreement 1U81 OA 00002-01 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not represent the official views or policies of the funding agency. Publication does not in any way constitute an endorsement by the Department of Health and Human Services.