This resource is from the Children’s Aid Society of Alabama and offers several adoption trainings. Trainings cover domestic adoption, international adoption, medical courses, and more.
This Christian adoption agency offers curriculum designed to help families prepare for the placement and care of a child. They also offer courses for post-adoption life, webinars, and individual training appointments.
This is a Christian organization that offers programs including Post-Adoption Coaching & Education (PACE) and Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI). Both programs help parents better understand their children. Holt also provides resources about racial and adoptee identity, birth parents, privilege, and international adoption.
A brief article regarding different types of adoption training for prospective and adoptive parents. There’s also a list of trainings that are required or useful for parents researching child development.
The ASA offers a beginner’s adoption course designed for prospective adoptive families. The class discusses various aspects of adoption, including logistical challenges, managing grief and trauma, birth family relationships, and more. The ASA also offers specialized classes for transracial and intercountry adoptions.
This is resource promotes mental health as a critical part of overall wellness — including prevention services. The site includes statistics about what Black and African-American people face regarding mental health services (treatment issues, access, prevalence, etc.).
This is an online space dedicated to encouraging the mental wellness of Black women and girls. The site has a search directory where users are able to search for therapists by location, issue, and therapy type. It also offers podcasts, a blog, and membership for the site’s community.
An organization dedicated to “healing to communities of color by changing the face and feel of therapy.” Their goal is to make therapists of color more accessible. The search directory tool allows users to filter by location, specialty, service type, ethnicity, and insurance.
This foundation offers Black communities resources, connections, and support needed to help break the silence and stigma around mental health. It offers a directory of mental health providers and programs serving the African-American community, African American Cultural Competency training, a mental health scholarship fund, and more.
BEAM is a national training, movement building, and grant making institution. They’re dedicated to the healing, wellness, and liberation of Black and marginalized communities.
