General Adoption Educational Courses
The educational courses listed below are on general adoption topics and applicable to domestic adoptions, embryo adoptions, and international adoptions. To find out when these courses are being offered — and to register — go to the Seminars/Events List and click on the event details.
Starting the Process of Adoption Webinars
These two online courses form a series about starting the adoption process, but they may be taken independently of each other and in any order. Both are taught by Laura Beauvais-Godwin, an adoptive mother and director of Nightlight's South Carolina office.
- Financing an Adoption (online)
A webinar exploring ways adopting families can access monies available for adoptions, in addition to discussing creative ways to raise awareness and funds for your adoption. - The Adoption Homestudy (online)
A webinar that helps you understand what is asked during the homestudy and what documents are required. Applicable to families regardless of their state of residence.
Local General Adoption Courses (California & South Carolina)
These courses form a portion of the education provided by Nightlight to our Southern California adoption homestudy families.
- Life-Long Issues in Adoption (local - CA)
A seminar focusing on the core issues of adoption, giving adoptive families an understanding of how they are linked to the other members of the Adoption Triad. - Adoption Seminars (local - CA & SC)
Both the California and South Carolina offices hold regular seminars introducing domestic, international, and embryo adoptions.
Seminars/Events Menu
Nightlight Christian Adoptions is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) adoption agency, licensed by the states of California and South Carolina to provide adoption services, and is Hague Accredited through COA. Nightlight can perform adoption homestudies for residents of South Carolina and Southern California (Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, and Ventura counties).