• All Pact clients must attend five adoption-education events.
  Adoption agencies and support groups throughout the United States periodically hold adoption-education events that are open to the community. You must research what is available in your location and submit information in advance about the events that interest you so Pact can confirm whether they will meet this requirement. Workshops have two benefits: You will be introduced to challenges in and solutions to adoption issues that you need to be prepared for and you will have the chance to connect with other families who share your issues. Each client family must attend five workshops, either before or within six months after a child is placed with them. You will be required to send Pact a report of each event you attend.

• All Pact clients must schedule three 30 minute telephone consultations: Ask an Adopted Person; Ask a Birth Parent; and Nuts and Bolts of the Pact Process
  You will have an opportunity to speak with Pact staff members who have life experiences as an adopted person or birth parent. These are wonderful opportunities to understand the point of view of other members of the adoption triad and begin to anticipate some of the feelings and experiences the birth parents of your child and your child will have. During the Nuts and Bolts meeting, you will have the opportunity to learn more specific details of your particular process.

• All Pact clients are urged to attend at least one of Pact's annual conferences, a full day of advanced training in adoption issues. These events are held in the San Francisco Bay Area.
  Pact offers three all-day conferences every year:

  Spring Training	first Saturday/Sunday in March
  Focusing on parenting issues in adoption; four nationally-renowned speakers share the podium.
  Racial Awareness Training	last Saturday/Sunday of June
  Focusing on racial awareness and issues for parents and children.
  Fall Intensive	mid-October Saturday/Sunday
  Focusing on a specific sub-topic within the area of adoption; one speaker all day.

  We will send you advance information about time and place for these events. Our annual conferences, led by nationally renowned adoption experts, offer new inspiration and clear "how-tos" for direction in complex situations. The goals for the conferences are to provide information, to offer support, to achieve greater excellence and to build community.

• All Pact clients are urged to attend yearly conferences offered by other organizations. We particularly suggest an annual conference presented by NACAC, offering two full days of advanced training in adoption; this conference is held at US sites that vary from year to year.
  We will send you advance information about time and place for annual conferences such as these. At such conferences, led by nationally renowned experts, you will be exposed to a wide range of experts and ideas. You may use conference workshops like these to fulfill your Pact adoption education requirement. Pact staff members often attend national conferences, allowing us the opportunity to meet you face to face.

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