New Jersey Adoption Resource Clearing House

2020 – 2021 Monthly Strengthening Your Family
live stream webinar series

For Parents and Professionals

The first 600 registrations are FREE each month

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

In this webinar, parents and caregivers will gain better understanding of developmental stages of adopted tweens/teens and learn tools to support them in their journey of becoming whole adults. Topics covered will include general identity formation, adoption identity and racial identity. We’ll explore how tweens and teens move through their development while understand their adoption, racial, gender and overall identity issues on a deeper level as they travel the road toward independence.

This workshop is suitable for adoptive parents, birth parents, their allies and professionals.

*Call-In Instructions Will Be Emailed After Registration

PST Time, CA

Start: Mar 10, 2021 11:00 AM
End: Mar 10, 2021 12:30 PM

Families Growing Together Through Adoption

Keynote Presentation: Knowing the Unknowable: Insight from Adoptees Working in Adoption

Steve Kalb, LMSW, Director of Post Adoption Services
Holt International
Joli Hanlon, BA, Director of Holt Adoptee Camp
Holt International
Caitlin Howe, MA, Post Adoption Programs Lead
Holt International

Friday, March 12
Saturday, March 13
9:00 am – 1:30 pm

This is not just for Passaic County! We love company!

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Professional Development Certificates will be offered at the end of the conference.

Domestic infant private adoption costs can range from $10,000 to more than $50,000. With these fees, many ask how are families budgeting and financing their adoptions. In this educational series, we will be discussing and providing suggestions on budgeting, financing strategies, adoption loans, adoption grants, fundraising and the adoption tax credit.

Many, perhaps most, adoptions now begin with the possibility of some amount of openness and contact between birth and adoptive parents. How do you determine what is right for you and your child? How do you know what to expect long term? Each family’s situation is unique and there is no single set of answers, but by drawing on research, lived experience and current models, this workshop will help pre-adoptive and expectant parents find the child-centered path that considers everyone’s needs and acknowledges the power differentials that exist between adoptees, first/birth families and adoptive families.

This webinar is suitable for pre-adoptive parents, expectant parents and professionals working with these populations.

$36 per person non-member. Special pricing Pact members receive 25% discount.

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

PST Time, CA

Start: Apr 7, 2021 11:00 AM
End: Apr 7, 2021 12:30 PM

Join Pact’s Adoption Social Worker, Katie Wynen, for a FREE orientation to learn about the adoption process and placement program with Pact. Pact supports expectant/birth parents who are specifically seeking adoptive parents of color to adopt their baby. These are no-obligation opportunities to gather information about the adoption process with Pact. Participants will learn about Pact’s ethical and child-centered approach to adoption placement. We will review the home study process and what will be required, the timeline and costs of domestic infant adoption with Pact, and other services and programs that Pact offers in addition to placement. This webinar is particularly focused on the experience of pre-adoptive parents of color interested in adoption, but parents considering transracial adoption are also welcome to attend.

PST Time, CA

Start: Apr 21, 2021 11:00 AM
End: Apr 21, 2021 12:30 PM

First/birth parents are the truest expert on their own experience. In this webinar, participants will hear from a panel of first/birth parents as they discuss the many complexities of adoption.  This diverse and interactive panel will address topics such as pregnancy and childbirth, interactions with professionals, relationships with their child/ren and relationships with their child/ren’s adoptive parents. Through first-person stories and videos, we’ll offer perspectives that represent a spectrum of placements including different types of adoption and reasons for adoption and foster-adoption. There is no single first/birth parent story, so be prepared to have your assumptions challenged and your perspective broadened.

PST Time, CA

Start: May 5, 2021 11:00 AM
End: May 5, 2021 12:30 PM

Participants will learn how to start and continue developmentally appropriate conversations about adoption, first families and loss. Topics will include understanding how children experience adoption; why the words we use matter, strategies that match children’s developmental stages, why beginning with a child’s birth makes sense; how to talk about first/birth parents; and how to answer and anticipate children’s questions whether they ask them or not. We will also discuss how to coordinate these conversations when birth parents are available to be part of them and when they are not. Appropriate for pre-adoptive parents, expectant parents considering an adoption plan and both birth and adoptive parents.

Call-In Instructions Will Be Emailed After Registration

$36 per person non-member. Special price Pact members receive 25% discount.

PST Time, CA

Start: May 19, 2021 11:00 AM
End: May 19, 2021 12:30 PM

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