TRAINING FOR ADOPTION COMPETENCE
Oklahoma’s newest virtual cohort begins March 2023.
A Virtual Learning Certificate Program for Mental Health Professionals
There are many benefits of TAC for employers, clinicians and the families they serve.
By participating, clinicians can expect to:
Gain an in-depth understanding of core adoption issues, current clinical tools, and evidence-based approaches.
Develop advanced skills through clinical case consultation from adoption competent experts.
Engage in practices that produce better child and family outcomes and higher client satisfaction.
Build community with clinicians across the state providing similar services.
The TAC Program includes:
CEUs, a certificate of completion, digital badging, as well as both local and national recognition in the Directory of TAC Trained Mental Health Providers.
Program Candidates
Master’s level licensed clinicians in social work, counseling, psychology or related discipline or Master’s level professionals preparing for licensure
Professionals employed in a clinical practice setting with a strong clinical background
Professionals interested in working with prospective adoptive parents, birth parents and birth families, adopted persons, and adoptive kinship families.
Training Cost
One-time fee of $1,800 or 12 monthly payments of $165
When an agency sends two or more clinicians, one agency clinical director is able to participate free of charge.
Trainers
Jimmy Clare, LMFT-S & Registered Play Therapist and Leslie Keenan, LMFT-S & RPT-S
OKLAHOMA TAC 2023 COHORT SCHEDULE
July 21 - Supporting Identity Formation for Adolescents and Young Adults
Self-led - Adoption History, Law and Process
August 18 - Supporting Children, Youth and Families as They Prepare for Adoption
March 24 - Theoretical/Philosophical Framework of Adoption Competent Practice
September 15 - Clinical Issues in Working with Birth and Kinship Families
April 14 - Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Adopted Individuals and Their Families
October 20 - Openness in Adoption
April 28 - The Impact of Separation, Loss, and Grief: Clinical Strategies for Healing
November 17 - Race and Ethnicity in Adoption
May 19 - Trauma and Neurobiology
December 15 - Therapeutic Parenting: Parents as Primary Vehicles for Healing
June 16 - Enhancing Parent-Child Attachment