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November 2017
2017 Adoptive Parents Committee Conference
APC’s annual conference serves to promote a better awareness and understanding of adoption and foster care and provide members with accurate information concerning adoption, foster care, and parenting issues. Conference participants will have the opportunity to attend numerous workshops, seminars, lectures and panel discussions. Led by professionals and experts in the adoption field including attorneys, social workers, physicians, adoptive parents, agency representatives, adoptees and educators, the workshops provide up-to-date information as well as a forum for discussions. Our conference is…
Find out more »ATN Peer Support Groups for Adoptive Families
Four Sunday Sessions: 3:00-4:30 PM Sept 24, Oct 22, Nov 19, Dec 10, 2017 Adoption Playgroups for Children, 5-9 years old Fun, multiracial playgroups, facilitated by adult and teen adoptees, for adopted kids from a wide spectrum of backgrounds. Themes around identity, family and friends, and adoption story are explored. The groups provide a “safe space” for kids to build relationships within the adoptee community. For Tweens, 10-13 years old A peer-support group that embraces issues, as they come up,…
Find out more »September 2018
ATN Peer Support Groups for Adoptive Families
Four Sunday Sessions: 3:00-4:30 PM Sept 16, Oct 14, Nov 18, Dec 19, 2018 Adoption Playgroups for Children, 5-9 years old Fun, multiracial playgroups, facilitated by adult and teen adoptees, for adopted kids from a wide spectrum of backgrounds. Themes around identity, family and friends, and adoption story are explored. The groups provide a “safe space” for kids to build relationships within the adoptee community. For Tweens, 10-13 years old A peer-support group that embraces issues, as they come up,…
Find out more »November 2018
2018 Adoptive Parents Committee Conference
APC’S ANNUAL CONFERENCE SERVES TO PROMOTE A BETTER AWARENESS AND UNDERSTANDING OF ADOPTION AND PROVIDE MEMBERS WITH ACCURATE INFORMATION CONCERNING ADOPTION AND PARENTING ISSUES. Conference participants will have the opportunity to attend numerous workshops, seminars, lectures and panel discussions. Led by professionals and experts in the adoption field including attorneys, social workers, physicians, adoptive parents, agency representatives, adoptees and educators, the workshops provide up-to-date information as well as a forum for discussions. Our conference is for those who are considering…
Find out more »ATN Peer Support Groups for Adoptive Families
Four Sunday Sessions: 3:00-4:30 PM Sept 16, Oct 14, Nov 18, Dec 19, 2018 Adoption Playgroups for Children, 5-9 years old Fun, multiracial playgroups, facilitated by adult and teen adoptees, for adopted kids from a wide spectrum of backgrounds. Themes around identity, family and friends, and adoption story are explored. The groups provide a “safe space” for kids to build relationships within the adoptee community. For Tweens, 10-13 years old A peer-support group that embraces issues, as they come up,…
Find out more »December 2018
ATN Peer Support Groups for Adoptive Families
Four Sunday Sessions: 3:00-4:30 PM Sept 16, Oct 14, Nov 18, Dec 19, 2018 Adoption Playgroups for Children, 5-9 years old Fun, multiracial playgroups, facilitated by adult and teen adoptees, for adopted kids from a wide spectrum of backgrounds. Themes around identity, family and friends, and adoption story are explored. The groups provide a “safe space” for kids to build relationships within the adoptee community. For Tweens, 10-13 years old A peer-support group that embraces issues, as they come up,…
Find out more »April 2019
Smith College “Adoption Conversation”
Join us for a lecture and discussion on adoption, with wine and cheese. This special event, co-hosted with the Smith College Office of Alumni Relations, will bring together SSW alumni, SSW students, Smith College alumnae, and guests for an authentic insightful discussion on experiences and issues surrounding adoption.
Find out more »May 2019
“Let’s Talk Adoption” Conference
Keynote Speaker: Adam Pertman, CEO and Founder of the National Center on Adoption and Permanency Keynote Address: Rethinking Adoption in the 21st Century: Progressing from "Child Placement" to "Family Success" Over 30 workshops for pre-/post-adoptive parents, foster parents, child welfare professionals, adoptees, and kinship guardians. Continuing Education Hours (maximum of 5) NJ & PA Social Workers and Licensed Professional Counselors Provided by Rutgers University Office of Continuing Education
Find out more »AKA Adoptive Parent Series: Birth Country Cultural Identity Development
How important is it for international adoptees to be familiar with their birth country's culture? In this event, we will hear from two past and present Also-Known-As mentorship program parents about their experience and insight into helping their children develop a healthy awareness of their roots. Martha Crawford and Marjorie Williams will share their methods, challenges, successes, and reflections on the role that they, as white parents, played in trying to impart a sense of being Korean and Chinese, respectively,…
Find out more »July 2019
North American Council on Adoptable Children
Join us in Las Vegas next summer for this four-day educational event that covers a wide variety of foster care and adoption topics—to meet the diverse needs and levels of experience of adoptive and foster parents, child welfare professionals, and people who were adopted or in foster care. We offer more than 80 sessions in topics such as: Supporting and preserving adoptive families Core issues in adoption Effective therapeutic techniques in adoption Kinship care and birth family connections Parenting children…
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