LEAP – Learning for Everyone in Adoption and Permanency is the Belonging Network’s new online education course for parents and caregivers. For prospective adoptive parents, LEAP fulfils the legal requirement for pre-adoption education. LEAP has replaced the previous Adoption Education Program (AEP).
The Belonging Network offers LEAP on behalf of the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD). We are not an adoption agency or part of the government, but we are honoured to be the BC government’s partner of choice for this important step in the adoption process.
The course outlines can be found below:
Introduction to adoption and permanency
- Children eligible for adoption
- The adoption process
- Legal requirements and financial considerations
Learning for Everyone in Adoption and Permanency (LEAP)
- The impacts of colonization on adoption and permanency in Canada
- Introduction to adoption through government care
- Separation, loss, and grief
- Predictable adjustments
- Trauma: Impacts on child and youth development
- Healthy attachment across the lifespan: Supporting child and youth development
- Openness
- Cultural understanding
- Mental wellness
- Prenatal exposure to drugs and alcohol
Questions? Contact the Education team at education@belongingnetwork.com or 604-320-7330 ext.187.
