1. Practicing Permanency: Advanced Certificate Course in Adoption and Foster Care Competency Putting Permanency Into Practice: Transfer of Learning from the Classroom to Practice

2. Session Ten: Putting Permanency into Practice How do professionals bring all of this information together and utilize these new learning’s into everyday practice? Each student will explore the transfer of learning from the ten class classroom sessions to the real world practice arena and present their findings to the entire class.

3. Session Ten Competencies Knows and understands the power and complexities of putting permanency into practice. Session Ten Objectives Demonstrates how one could put permanency into every day practice.

4. Course Themes o Session 1: Overview of the US Child Welfare System, Respectful Language with Families and the Language of Permanency o Session 2: Impact of Child Traumatic Stress on Permanency o Session 3: Engaging All Constellation Members: Birthparents; Foster/Adoptive/Kin Parents; and Adopted Persons

5. Course Themes o Session 4: Life Long Issues in Clinical Practice with Birthparents; Foster/Adoptive/Kin Parents; and Adopted Persons o Session 5: Substance Abuse, Mental Health, and Domestic Violence, and Impact on Permanency o Session 6: The Impact of Neglect, Physical, Emotional, & Sexual Abuse on Permanency

6. Course Themes o Session 7: The Impact of Attachment & Bonding on Permanency o Session 8: Cultural Connections for Birth/Kin/Foster/Adoptive Families o Session 9: The Impact of Search and Reunion for Persons From Birth/Foster/Kin/Adopt Families

7. Course Themes Session 10: Putting Permanency into Practice- What was your primary learning? How are you transferring what you learned here into your practice with children, youth, and families?

8. Now It’s Your Turn Class Presentations by Students

9. Graduation Time Awarding of Certificates

10. Final Thoughts Conclusions