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Father hugs his adopted daughter holding a heart balloon, illustrating an adoption-friendly workplace webinar

Wednesday, November 11th, 2026 | Choose your preferred time

Every Family Counts: How to Build an Adoption-Friendly Workplace

Extend Your Family Benefits to Every Path to Parenthood

Many family benefits packages are built around birth, which leaves employees who adopt or foster to handle the costs and time away mostly on their own.

HR teams that want to close that gap tend to get stuck on the same two questions: where to start, and what it will cost the company.

This webinar shows you how to build an adoption benefits program step by step, using lessons from more than 30 years of advocacy by the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption.

With this webinar:

  • Understand the different types of adoption, what each one costs families, and how benefits shape an employee’s decision to adopt
  • Learn what a financial reimbursement benefit can cover and how paid or unpaid leave works with FMLA
  • Build the case for why adoption and foster care benefits are a win-win for employees and the business
  • Start your benefit plan with the free Adoption-Friendly Workplace Toolkit
  • Discover other ways to support adoptive families and how to get recognized as a Best Adoption-Friendly Workplace

Every employee deserves support when their family grows, however it grows. Make your benefits as inclusive as the families on your team.

Speaker Info

Mary Ellen Smalley

Mary Ellen Smalley is Director, Brand and Cause Awareness at the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, where she has led the Adoption-Friendly Workplace program for 11 years. Before that, she was Director of Marketing and Communications at Delta Gamma Fraternity, and she spent 15 years as a journalist. Mary Ellen believes every child deserves a loving, safe and legally permanent family.

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