Beyond the Match Foundation's Podia/Open Adoption: Building Healthy Connections

  • $20

Open Adoption: Building Healthy Connections

  • Course
  • 3 Lessons
  • Starts Tomorrow

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.

Contents

Welcome to Open Adoption in Practice

We’re so glad you’re here!

This educational webinar is designed to help families better understand the realities, complexities, and long-term dynamics of open adoption through an honest, compassionate, and adoptee-informed perspective.

This webinar is hosted by Anna Bernacki — adoptee, adoptive mom, and CEO/Owner of Parenting Different. Anna brings both personal and professional insight into the conversation, helping families think beyond placement and toward building healthy, respectful, lifelong relationships within open adoption. Topics covered in this training include:

  • types of openness,

  • healthy boundaries,

  • communication with birth families,

  • navigating expectations,

  • and long-term relationship dynamics in open adoption.

Completion of this webinar and the accompanying quiz will satisfy one hour of educational requirements for your home study. We encourage you to approach this training with openness, curiosity, and compassion as you continue learning about the lifelong realities of adoption.

Open Adoption Webinar
Please complete the quiz to receive credit for this webinar.
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