Adoption for both you and your children can be very challenging. The majority of children are removed from their birth families because they have suffered abuse and neglect. Many will have had a number of different foster homes, and each move, including the one to their adoptive home, will contribute to the child’s experience of loss, insecurity, and trauma.

CCS Adoption provides the training, care, and support that will help you ease those challenges and for you to experience the many rewards that adopting a child brings. The sessions are run by an experienced adopter and a social worker or assistant social worker. There will be group exercises, discussions, and film clips to help support learning.

Training is available to all prospective adoptive parents undergoing, or who have undergone, assessment with a voluntary or regional adoption agency. These courses are for families who live in the following areas of the South West of England: Bristol, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire.

A minimum of four households per session is required for training to take place.

If you wish to have further information, please contact our trainer, Jane Thompson, at training@ccsadoption.org.

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Core Adoption Preparation Training

If you are a prospective adopter undergoing assessment with a VAA/RAA adoption agency, you are invited to attend Day 1 to 5 of our adoption preparation training.

Family & Friends

This training gives you an insight into the impact that trauma and insecure attachments can have on a vulnerable child. We help you prepare them for their first meeting with their new family members, manage expectations and broaden understanding of the support required for all.

Exploring your Future Family

This session helps you as a prospective adopter to consider your own strengths and vulnerabilities, and your ability to meet different children’s needs.