Education: Educating Human Services Professionals
Putting Research into Action: Ethics and Adoption Training for Social Workers and Mental Health Professionals
As recent headlines make clear, adoption – whether international, domestic infant or from foster care – poses ethical challenges for all parties. Social workers and mental health professionals are primary stakeholders in the process, often serving as the primary gatekeepers of ethical practice.
The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute has long been a leader in promoting ethical policy and practice in adoption, including through its sponsorship of two major, comprehensive national conferences on the subject. Based on the input of our country's leading practitioners, policy-makers, researchers and activists, the Institute now offers continuing education credits for social workers, mental health professionals and counselors to guide their practice in training. We are calling this innovative initiative Adoption Ethics and Accountability.
CEU Formats and Description
List of CEU Courses
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About our CEU Courses
This 7.5-hour training examines ethical considerations for all parties to adoption: families of origin, adopted adults and children, and adoptive parents. In addition, it addresses all types of adoption - placement of children across national boundaries, adoption of children from the foster care system, and domestic adoption of infants.
Continuing education credits are granted through Illinois State University's School of Social Work, which is a registered Continuing Education Sponsor through the State of Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation Division of Professional Regulation. License No. 159.000191.
Please note: Participants may contact their respective state licensing boards to request approval of CEU credit provided through the State of Illinois.
The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute - known for its ethics-based policy and practice initiatives - is now putting research into practice by offering continuing education courses for social workers and other mental health professionals, who are often primary stakeholders in the adoption process.
These two courses are sponsored by the Continuing Education Sponsor, Illinois State University School of Social Work, registered through the State of Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Division of Professional Regulation. These two courses provide up to 7.5 hours of continuing education credits to Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors (LCPC), Licensed Clinical Professional (LCP), Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and Licensed Social Workers (LCSW).
The courses are composed of recorded conference sessions and speakers' materials from the Adoption Ethics & Accountability Conference and provided on dvds.
CEU Formats and Description
All Continuing Education Courses are available on DVDs, which will be mailed via Priority Mail after payment is verified; we are also working to provide online downloads in the future. Depending on a given state's requirements for certification of a course, the participant will complete an evaluation, test or certification for submission to the Adoption Institute. Once the requirements are met and received by the Institute, we will submit the information to the ISU's School of Social Work, which will process the CEU certificate. Please allow 3-4 weeks to process. All CEUS will be sent via email. If you have questions, contact ceu@adoptioninstitute.org or call Mari Cochran, CEU Coordinator, at 828.989.4511.
For full course brochure, click here.
Continuing Education Courses are composed of recorded conference sessions and/or papers and research presented by attorneys. All CEU courses provide the presenters' biographical sketches, appropriate references and qualifications. Each CEU course has been approved by ISU's School of Social Work as a registered Continuing Education Sponsor through the State of Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation Division of Professional Regulation. License No. 159.000191.
List of CEU Courses
To register and pay for courses ONLINE via our secure website click here.
Or you can download, print and MAIL-IN or FAX your registration form. Click here to download our Registration Form.
| CEU Title | Fee | Length | Type of Credit | Credit Hours |
|
Adoption and BirthparentsDetails |
$35.00 |
|
Ethics |
3 |
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Ethics and Accountability to Adopted Persons and Adoptive ParentsDetails |
$50.00 |
|
Ethics |
4.5 |
Questions
Please submit to ceu@adoptioninstitute.org or call 828.989.4511.
