New Jersey Adoption Resource Clearing House

WORKSHOPS AND SPEAKERS

Session 1

Open Adoption

Rebecca Mendel, JD

Adopting While Already Parenting

Carolyn Berger, LCSW

Adoption Costs

Michele Fried – Adoption STAR

Post Adoptive Support

Tomasine Oliphant and Pat O’Brien: Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New York

Session 2

Speaking to Extended Family and Others on Adoption

Anne Malave, Ph.D.

How to be Selected by Birth Parents

Nina Rumbold JD, & Denise Seidelman, JD

Understanding Adoption at Different Ages & Stages

Angela Rudden – Spence Chapin