Sandy Iverson of the International Adoption Clinic in Minnesota offers three topics here that may be of interest to parents wanting to prepare ahead of time and become aware of any medical conditions their child may have.

• Common Sleep Problems Post Placement, an outline of common sleeping problems seen in adopted children as well as some creative ideas for working with these problems (total duration 10 minutes).
• FAS Diagnosis, an outline of the medical diagnosing of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (total duration 10 minutes).
• Initial Medical Exam, an overview of the Initial Medical Exam children require post-placement (total duration 11 minutes).
  

CHSFS Staff member, Becky Steeber discusses transracial adoption and parenting transracially.

• Transracial Adoption, information on what families need to consider and raise a child of another culture and race (total duration 50 minutes).
  

Brian Stawarz, Marriage and Family Therapist at CHSFS discusses some ideas for parents who are waiting for the placement of thier adopted child.

• Coping With the Wait, insights and information about how to balance the feelings of anxiety, frustration and hopelessness that many families experience while they wait in adoption (total duration 12 minutes).