Training for Adoption Competency (TAC)

Training for Adoption Competency (TAC) is a manualized adoption-competency, clinical training program for licensed mental health professionals and child welfare professionals working with families formed through adoption, with children and youth frequently adopted from the foster care system. The training model features a 72-hour, 12-module training curriculum, six 90-minute monthly case consultation sessions, a robust trainer credentialing and support process, and ongoing multicomponent evaluation. TAC is a training model that is designed to produce changes in assessment and intervention practices. Ideally, these changes enable those trained in the program to apply trauma-informed, attachment-based skills to address core adoption issues such as loss, grief, understanding one’s adoption story, identity formation, and search and reunion.

Training for Adoption Competency (TAC) is a post-Master’s curriculum designed by C.A.S.E. with the assistance of a National Advisory Board of adoption experts. Through classroom and remote instruction as well as clinical case consultation, TAC students master 12 domains that are critical to adoption-competent mental health services.

1800+ graduates have all said that the training has improved their practice. With 17 training centers across 16 states nationwide and more on the way, many more families now have access to expert adoption-competent mental health care.