Infant Adoption Training Initiative

Since 2002, NCFA has been providing adoption awareness training to options counselors as the original recipient of a national grant to conduct the Infant Adoption Awareness Training Program (IAATP) in all 50 states.

Growing out of legislation by the U.S. Congress in 2000, the primary purpose of the program was to train pregnancy and health counselors in federally funded clinics to present adoption as an option to women with unplanned pregnancies. In more than 1,700 training days since 2002, NCFA’s IAATP has trained more than 17,000 individuals from all 50 states, 94 percent of whom rated the trainings “Excellent.”  

from: http://www.jimdemint.com/cgi-data/news/files/62.shtml

A federal act passed in 2000 generates $10 million annually for each of three years to generate a public awareness, training and publicity for an estimated 250,000 children who are or will be available for adoption, according to Paul Devantier, national director of Infant Adoption Awareness based in Alexandria, VA.

Devantier said his agency spends $7 million annually. The effort is being highlighted in local and national TV ads, officials said.