Training Support Available

The CT Adoption Community Network (ACN) offers funding for the provision of training and educational opportunities designed to support adoptive parenting, improve professional competency around adoption and/or the enhance adoption awareness and sensitivity.  

Applications are reviewed by a funding committee that meets at the UConn Health Center. The committee will use the following criteria as part of the decision process:

• Relevance of topic to the adoption community
• Size of audience that will have access to the training
• Ability of the applicant to gain co-sponsorship of the training (cost sharing)

The Network requires that training opportunities provided in part with ACN funding be offered to participants at a reasonable cost.  Families must be offered opportunity to attend at no cost (or a nominal fee may be charged in the event that attendance must be guaranteed due to the need to order meals.)

Marketing materials for any training sponsored with ACN funding should acknowledge the CT Adoption Community Network as a sponsor. 

Please note that funding awards generally are made to support speaker honorariums, site fees, and audio visual support. In order to maximize training dollars, travel costs, food, and childcare are not reimbursable through the ACN. These costs would be the responsibility of the applicant and its other co-sponsors.

Training cost must be paid by the sponsoring agency, and then invoiced after the training has occurred.  Receipts for any approved expenses must be provided with the invoice along with attendance list that indicates each attendee's connection to adoption (e.g. parent, professional, or educator).

Applications for funding assistance may be submitted to the ACN at the address indicated below.

Adoption Community Network
Education and Training Committee
The Exchange, Suite 262
270 Farmington Avenue
Farmington, CT 06032-6210
Fax: 860-679-1349

To learn more, contact Susan Gervais at sgervais@uchc.edu.