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"Trauma-informed training so you can understand exactly how to approach sleep in a way that creates meaningful change."
Introducing...
Supporting Fostering & Adoption Families
A complete, comprehensive program to feeling confident and prepared to change these families' lives.
Standard sleep training methods often fall short or trigger trauma responses in children with foster or adoption backgrounds. This certification teaches you the neurobiology of trauma, how attachment works, and how to create felt safety before gently introducing sleep habits.
What's inside
Here's What We'll Cover
Brain Development & Trauma
Learn how trauma physically rewires the developing brain, what toxic stress does to specific brain structures, and why sleep challenges in fostered and adopted children are neurobiological, not behavioral.
Felt Safety & Attachment
Understand the attachment cycle, recognize different attachment styles, and learn why building trust and felt safety must come before any sleep work begins.
Common Sleep Issues
Identify the specific sleep challenges fostered and adopted children face—from bedtime resistance and night terrors to grief and anxiety—and learn how to assess if a family is ready for sleep work.
Sleep Techniques and Special Considerations
Discover trauma-informed sleep strategies that work for this population, including when to be more hands-on, how to adapt traditional methods, and special considerations for different trauma histories.
Case Scenarios Explained
Walk through real-life case studies to see how trauma-informed sleep consulting works in practice, including how to navigate complex situations and make clinical decisions.
Final Project + Exam
Demonstrate your mastery of the material through a comprehensive final project and exam, earning your Foster & Adoption Sleep Consulting Certification.
Your Instructors
Allison Ezell
Founder of Dwell Pediatric Sleep Consulting
Allison Ezell is a wife, mom of four, former educator, and the founder of Dwell Pediatric Sleep Consulting. Two of her children came to her family through adoption—one through international adoption and one through foster care adoption—giving her a deeply personal understanding of the unique challenges these families face.
For the past five years, Allison has specialized in serving foster and adoptive families, providing the trauma-informed sleep support that was desperately missing when her own adopted son struggled with sleep.
Certified through The Cradle Coach Academy as both a Baby and Toddler Sleep Consultant and a Foster and Adoption Sleep Consultant, Allison brings both professional expertise and lived experience to completely update and modernize this course.
Marli Klaus
Owner, The Cradle Coach Academy
Marli Klaus is a certified Pediatric Sleep Consultant, owner of The Cradle Coach and The Cradle Coach Academy, and mom of three. After spending over 13 years growing a successful career in corporate leadership, Marli found sleep consulting and never looked back.
As a triple certified Sleep Consultant, Marli has supported hundreds of families and through The Cradle Coach Academy, trained over 1,000 women to become Certified Sleep Consultants worldwide.
• The Center for Pediatric Sleep Management (CPSM)
• The Cradle Coach Academy (Foster & Adoption, NCS & Pediatric Sleep)
• Sleep Health Organization's SHIP program
Program FAQs
What is the Investment?
Choose the payment plan that best fits your business cash flow.
One Time Payment
- Full 5-module trauma-informed curriculum
- Case study reviews & final exam evaluation
- Official Advanced Certification Diploma
- Lifetime updates & community support
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