New Jersey Adoption Resource Clearing House

**Este grupo se reúne cada martes hasta el año 2021. Por favor visite el sitio web para más información.

We’re Going Virtual

In response to COVID-19, the Crimes Against Children team has made the decision to transform the previously scheduled in-person event to a virtual experience for 2020. Transitioning the Conference to a virtual setting was a complex decision. First and foremost, this was done with consideration for our attendees’ safety. Second, it was based on the understanding of the importance of our Conference and the critical training it provides to help fight crimes against children within your community. Registration will include access to 100 sessions and access to recordings until December 31, 2020. We appreciate your continued patience during this transition to a virtual conference.

The conference is presented annually by the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center. The conference is conducted to provide training to those employed by government or nonprofit agencies in the fields of law enforcement, child protective services, social work, children’s advocacy, therapy, and medicine who work directly with child victims of crime.

Parenting a child with a disorder on the fetal alcohol spectrum can present many challenges for foster and adoptive families. It is vital for these families and the professionals who support them to understand the reasons behind the learning and behavioral challenges so they, together, can “try differently.” Participants will be able to: 1) Explore risk factors when illicit drugs, tobacco, and alcohol are used during pregnancy; 2) Describe FASD and connection between brain impairment and behaviors; 3) Explore diagnoses under FASD umbrella; 4) Identify “red flags” for FASD diagnosis; 5) Consider co-morbid conditions, including impact of trauma; 6) Discuss reframing and other strategies

Save the Date!

If you have been touched by adoption or foster care, this is the conference you will want to attend!

Join us virtually August 26–29, 2020 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.

The conference will have one session offered at a time. The first day will be aimed towards professionals, the last day towards parents, and days 2 and 3 for both parents and professionals.

Attendees can participate live, listen to a recorded version through September 30, or do a mixture of both.

Although people of color have a long history of informal care of community the national discussion of adoption often leaves out conversations about the experiences of adoptive families headed by people of color. Too often child welfare professionals have approached families of color from a place of judgement and power, apparently unable to see some the strengths and values embodied in communities that are often also facing racial, financial and social oppressions. This webinar will be an honest conversation about the strengths and challenges of talking about adoption and foster care in communities of color. From recruitment of families to ongoing support for parents, we will explore some of the pieces that child welfare professionals too often overlook which in turn results in undermining the effective support and engagement of people of color they are trying to accomplish. Participants will learn strategies for supporting adoptive parents of color throughout the adoption journey. This webinar is appropriate for professionals working with communities of color.

Pricing Description:

$45 per person non-member

Special pricing Pact member receive 15% discount.

Please choose carefully when registering for Pact events. Pact is not in a position to refund workshop or event registration fees.

Although people of color have a long history of informal care of communitythe national discussion of adoption often leaves out conversations about the experiences of adoptive families headed by people of color. Too often child welfare professionals have approached families of color from a place of judgement and power, apparently unable to see some the strengths and values embodied in communities that are often also facing racial, financial and social oppressions. This webinar will be an honest conversation about the strengths and challenges of talking about adoption and foster care in communities of color. From recruitment of families to ongoing support for parents, we will explore some of the pieces that child welfare professionals too often overlook which in turn results in undermining the effective support and engagement of people of color they are trying to accomplish. Participants will learn strategies for supporting adoptive parents of color throughout the adoption journey. This webinar is appropriate for professionals working with communities of color.

$45 per person non-member

Special pricing Pact member receive 15% discount.

It’s easy when it’s easy, and it’s hard when it’s hard. With the overwhelming presence and impact of both COVID-19 and racism, we know that families are experiencing stress and trauma in new ways. Conversations about the current challenges we all face are hard. This webinar will explore how we can have these challenging conversations with families and how these conversations offer opportunities for us to deepen our relationships with them.

SAVE THE DATE

Bring the Conference Home

FFTA 34^th Annual Conference on Treatment Family Care

Virtual Conference  September 23-24, 2020

We can’t meet in person this summer, but that won’t stop FFTA’s team of leaders, presenters, exhibitors and sponsors from delivering the only international conference on treatment family care.

The biennial Together for Families Conference is a unique event that connects various stakeholders from across the U.S. and Canada in the Family Support and Strengthening Field to focus on quality practice. This conference, co-hosted by key national organizations in the field, weaves together content related to the field of Family Support, the Strengthening Families Approach, Advancing Equity, and the Standards of Quality for Family Strengthening & Support.

Continuing our dialogue around the realities Black girls face and the added layers of parenting that come with raising a Black girl today. We will bring together a panel to discuss issues prevalent to Black girls. Many of the challenges faced by Black boys are very similar to what Black girls face but not often discussed.

Panelists will talk about the discussions they are having with their daughters and their major concerns around raising her in today’s world. We will confront some very serious topics around safety and the emotional toll the current state of the world has on Black girls.

Registration fee $25.00

Today more that 40% of adoptions are transracial and adopting a child of a different race comes with some added education and understanding of your child’s experiences.

Our panelists will share how listening to the news about racial tension in America today affects them as a parent of a Black child. We will discuss how White parents’ privilege can extend to their child when they are together, but when the child is alone, the privilege no longer exists. We will talk about what parents are doing to connect to their child’s culture and community and if they have significant relationships with adults within their child’s racial/ethnic groups. Finally, how they respond to people who say race is a non-issue, we don’t see color in this house, or, race doesn’t matter and all you need is love.

Registration fee $25.00