• There are 1.5 million adopted children in the US.
• Approximately 20,000 children are adopted from abroad each year.¹
• Adoptive parents feel isolated, misunderstood and unsupported by professionals. Parents feel professionals should more effectively educate themselves about adoption-related issues.²
• Professionals better trained in adoption related issues can better help their clients.
• First Steps provides in depth training on attachment, attunement, and regulation in the context of adoption. First Steps also teaches tools and techniques to help adopted children and their parents.
• Professionals can hear licensed professionals teach about clinical issues and watch actual therapy session where parents tell narratives to their children.

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¹ Obtained from http://www.adoptioninstitute.org/research/adoptionfacts.php on March 8, 2007.
² Linville, D. & Lyness, A. P. (2006). Twenty American families' stories of adaptation: Adoption of children from Russian and Romanian institutions. Journal of Marital & Family Therapy, 33, 77-93.