Working with LGBTQ+ Families in Foster Care and Adoption (1 credit hour)
Program Summary: This course examines supportive practices for working with LGBTQ+ families in foster care and adoption and offers guidance for building trusting and successful relationships. The course describes the advantages and challenges of engaging, recruiting, and helping LGBTQ+ families and aims to strengthen cultural competence for child welfare professionals. Suggestions for creating a welcoming and affirming agency are given.
This course is recommended for social workers and counselors and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.
Course Reading: Working with LGBTQ+ Families in Foster Care and Adoption
Publisher: Children’s Bureau
Course Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills and knowledge by exploring supportive practices when working with LGBTQ+ families in foster care and adoption.
Learning Objectives: Describe advantages of engaging and recruiting LGBTQ+ families. Identify tips for effective recruitment and retention. Describe the basics of creating a welcoming and affirming agency.
Review our pre-reading study guide.
Working with LGBTQ+ Families in Foster Care and Adoption, Course #4599, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by Free State Social Work, LLC as an individual course. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: 12/08/2022 - 12/08/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 1 Cultural Competence continuing education credit.
G.M. Rydberg-Cox, MSW, LSCSW is the Continuing Education Director at Free State Social Work and responsible for the development of this course. She received her Masters of Social Work in 1996 from the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago and she has over 20 years of experience. She has lived and worked as a social worker in Chicago, Boston, and Kansas City. She has practiced for many years in the area of hospital/medical social work. The reading materials for this course were developed by another organization.