What Adoptees Need Most
Fri, Jul 17
|Online Webinar
This training is designed for adoptive and foster parents, kinship caregivers, mental health professionals, school counselors, educators, social workers, and other child-serving professionals who support adopted children and teens.
Time & Location
Jul 17, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Online Webinar
About the event
Adoption does not end at placement. For many adoptees, grief, loss, identity questions, and emotional complexity continue across the lifespan. These experiences cannot be “fixed,” but they can be deeply supported.
In this webinar, adoptee and Identity and Parenting Different founder Isaac Etter shares insights from lived experience and years of post-adoption training to explore what adoptees most need from the adults in their lives.
Participants will learn how to reframe behavior through a trauma-informed lens, recognize the ongoing impact of grief and identity development, and understand how curiosity, emotional safety, and relational repair build lasting connection.
This session supports parents, counselors, educators, and professionals who work with adopted children and teens. Attendees will leave with practical ways to:
Respond to behavior with insight rather than control