Most families come into the adoption journey ready and able to welcome, love, nurture, and provide for the new child entering their family.  Lampion Center acknowledges this and wants to support families in this most important journey.  However, what many adoptive families can tell you after they’ve been through the process is: love is not enough. 

Because of this, Lampion Center works with families to provide opportunities to reflect on their motivations, strengths and weaknesses; a variety of information on special adoption issues; and a variety of resources that families can draw upon, all with the purpose of being prepared to meet your child’s transitional, emotional, educational, and physical needs as they arise.

This process helps families assess the best type of adoption to pursue, where they may need to enhance supports, and feel confident to meet their children’s needs throughout the different stages in their lives. 

Listed below are just a few of the special areas of consideration families should explore before their child comes home.

~ Effects of Institutionalization on Children

~ Grief and Loss for All Members of the Triad

~Talking to Your Child About Adoption

~Your Community's Resources for Special Needs

~Building Healthy Attachments

~Dealing with Attachment Issues

~Transracial/Transcultural Adoption

Family preparation generally comes in the form of group and individual meetings with agency staff, paperwork, and self-study.  Different agency, state, or country programs may have different requirements for the type and amount of information families receive.  Lampion Center will work to come up with a plan that meets your family’s needs.

Families who embrace the adoption preparation process will find that they learn much about the adoption process, their future children, and most likely about themselves.

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