Resources for Every Stage of the Adoption Journey

Adoption is not a single moment. It’s a lifelong journey of learning, growing, grieving, celebrating, and becoming. At Beyond the Match Foundation, one of our highest priorities is making sure families feel encouraged, supported, and educated in every season.

We want to be here:

  • When a family experiences the heartbreak of a disruption

  • When the paperwork is signed and finalization is complete

  • And in all the quiet, complicated, beautiful moments in between
    Because the truth is this: Finalization is not the finish line. It’s the beginning and adoptive parents should never stop learning.

We offer both free and paid educational resources created and led by trusted experts in modern adoption topics. Best of all, proceeds from paid resources directly support our grant funds, helping us provide assistance to families impacted by adoption disruption and post-placement challenges.

Our Educational Resources

Free Resources

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Home Study Check List

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Refer to this guide as you prepare for your home study.
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When a Match Fails or Things Don't Go As Planned

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When a match fails or adoption plans suddenly change, families are often left carrying grief, confusion, and emotional exhaustion that few people truly understand. This free resource was created to offer honest support, practical encouragement, and compassionate guidance.
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Paid For Education

In-depth educational resources designed to equip families with practical, adoption-informed support at every stage of the journey.

Every purchase directly supports Beyond the Match Foundation’s grant funds and helps us provide meaningful assistance to families in need.

Adoption Education

  • $25

Adoption 101: The Steps of the Process and What to Expect

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This webinar provides a comprehensive overview of the domestic infant adoption process. Topics include selecting an adoption professional, completing the home study, creating an effective profile book, understanding the matching process, building relationships with expectant parents, navigating the hospital and placement experience, open adoption, financial considerations, and life after finalization.
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  • $30

Adoption Preparation Course

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This course provides 2 hours of adoption preparation education covering emotional readiness, motivations for adopting, expectations versus realities of adoption, preparing support systems, understanding the adoption process, and respectful communication with expectant parents. Participants will gain practical knowledge and tools to navigate adoption with confidence and a child-centered approach.
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  • $25

Hospital Preparation and Placement Expectations -- Live Webinar

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Hospital Prep and Protocol with Giovanna is designed to help adoptive families feel informed, prepared, and confident navigating the hospital experience. It covers hospital dynamics, expectant parent autonomy, respectful communication, and the emotional expectations surrounding placement. Families will gain practical insight and guidance to help create a compassionate and supportive experience for everyone involved.
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  • $20

Inside Transracial Adoption

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Adoptee Isaac Etter and adoptive mother Julie Etter share honest, personal insight into the realities of transracial adoption and identity development. Families will gain a deeper understanding of the lived adoptee experience, parenting considerations in transracial adoption, and ways to support adoptees as they grow in racial, cultural, and personal identity.
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  • $20

Open Adoption: Building Healthy Connections

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In this educational webinar, Anna Bernacki — adoptee, adoptive mother, and CEO of Parenting Different — shares an honest, adoptee-informed perspective on open adoption in real life. Families will learn about openness, birth family communication, healthy boundaries, and long-term relationships in adoption. Includes a completion quiz and satisfies 1 hour of home study education requirements.
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  • $30

Parenting & Lifelong Adoption Understanding Course

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This course helps adoptive parents understand adoption as a lifelong part of identity, not a one-time event. Through reading, reflection, and quizzes, parents will learn how to talk openly about adoption, support birth family connections, parent through a trauma-informed lens, protect their child’s story, and advocate with compassion, honesty, and confidence.
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  • $25

Positive Discipline & Parenting Children with Attachment Disruptions -- Live

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This live 1.5-hr webinar, Dr. Vezina explores how developmental trauma impacts behavior, why attachment is the foundation of connection and regulation, and how parents can reframe misbehavior through a trauma-informed lens. Families will gain practical positive discipline strategies, tools for supporting children with attachment disruptions, and insight into caregiver stress, burnout, resilience, and self-compassion.
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  • $25

Preparing for Newborn Placement & Infant Care

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This 1.5-hour recorded webinar, hosted by Valerie Trumbower of New Parents Academy, prepares adoptive parents for newborn placement and infant care. Topics include feeding, sleep, bathing, soothing techniques, attachment and bonding, and safe sleep practices. Families will gain practical knowledge and confidence to care for their newborn during those first precious weeks at home.
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  • $30

Substance Exposure in Adoption : Breaking the Stigma and Empowering Parents to Say “Yes” -- Live Webinar

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Substance Exposure in Adoption is a live 1.5-hour webinar designed to help adoptive families better understand prenatal substance exposure with compassion, realism, and confidence. This webinar is intended to reduce fear, break stigma, and empower families to make informed adoption decisions.
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  • $20

Understanding Grief, Loss & Trauma in Adoption Webinar

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In this recorded one-hour webinar, Alyssa Caggiano, LMSW and founder of South Carolina Adoption Home Study Services, provides adoptive families with a deeper understanding of grief, loss, trauma, and attachment within the adoption experience. Topics include birth parent grief, adoptee loss, ambiguous loss, trauma responses in infants, and ways to support healthy attachment and connection within the family system.
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  • $20

Understanding the Adoptee Experience

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Explore adoption as a lifelong lived experience in this adoptee-centered webinar. Parents will learn how emotional safety, language, identity, and connection shape an adoptee’s development, and how behavior may communicate fear, overwhelm, or unmet needs. This session helps families move beyond reaction, invite open conversations, and support children with curiosity, compassion, and trust across their lifespan today.
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Why Families Trust Our Resources

Our resources are created with honesty, compassion, and real-life adoption experience in mind. We believe education should be practical, current, and rooted in the realities families face today. Every course and webinar is led by knowledgeable experts and designed to help families feel more prepared, supported, and connected throughout their journey.