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Lifebooks: Creating and Telling Your Child's Story


Description

A Lifebook is a book created for an adopted child that tells his story, before and after adoption.  It helps children place foster care or adoption in the context of their life experiences.


The Lifebooks class helps adoptive families:

  • Understand the purpose of a Lifebook and the need to start or to continue to develop one
  • Learn the difference between baby books, scrap books, and Lifebooks
  • Identify the components of a Lifebook
  • Identify situations that may benefit from employing Lifebooks
  • Develop some pages of your adopted child's Lifebook
  • Understand the importance of Lifebooks as a lifelong project


Credit Hours: 1.5

Content
  • Introduction
  • Navigating Through the Class
  • Welcome
  • Lesson One: Lifebook Basics
  • Introduction to Lifebooks
  • The Purpose of a Lifebook
  • The Importance of a Lifebook
  • Summary
  • Lesson Two: Preparing a Lifebook
  • Preparing a Lifebook
  • Lifebook Materials
  • Lifebook Components
  • Gathering Information: What to Include
  • What Not to Include
  • Tracking Down Missing Information
  • The Narrative
  • Lesson Three: Creating a Lifebook
  • Exercises to Create a Lifebook
  • Birth
  • Birth Family
  • Culture
  • Placement
  • Forever Family
  • Education
  • All About You
  • Special Events
  • Lesson Four: Lifebooks as Your Child Grows Older
  • Working with an Older Child
  • How to Begin
  • Narratives
  • Updating an Exisiting Lifebook
  • Lesson Five: Sharing the Lifebook
  • Using the Lifebook
  • Triggers
  • Child Initiated Use and Accessibility
  • Sharing and Privacy
  • Conclusion
  • Course Summary
  • Post Test
  • Acknowledgements
Completion rules
  • All units must be completed
  • Leads to a certificate with a duration: Forever
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