New Jersey Adoption Resource Clearing House

Therapeutic Group Counseling for:
LGBTQ Teens
Parents of LGBTQ Teens
Who:  Parents and Teens ages 14-18 years’ old who identify as
Lesbian, Gay, Transgender or Questioning
What: Safe space for young people to explore their identify.
Focus on finding/creating/exploring safe and fun social events
Groups will last 8 weeks; Individualized therapy as follow-up Offered.
When:
Teens-Thursdays, May 2nd-June 20th, 2019 at 4 PM & 6 PM
Parents- Saturdays May May 4th-June 29, 2019 at 2 pm

Join us on Saturday, June 1, 2019 for Bethany Christian Service’s first Fun Run & Walk.  Use the Playground/Park Entrance. Enjoy games, prizes, and food. Cost is $35 per registrant (12 and older). Kids & furry friends are free with a registered adult.
Please visit our website for more information and to register: www.bethany.org/njrunwalk.

Established in 2005,” One Child, Many Hands” brings cutting edge practice, policy and research to practitioners, policy-makers, and administrators across the various fields and disciplines who work in the child welfare field. The conference features compelling keynote addresses, plenary panels on critical and emerging topics, networking luncheons, and breakout sessions. Located on Penn’s campus, OCMH promotes collaboration and interdisciplinary learning.

This information session will go over the process to become a foster/adoptive parent through the State of New Jersey’s Division of Child Protection and Permanency, the state’s child welfare agency.

Join Spence-Chapin for Bagels & Blox, our monthly adoptive family playgroup. We’ll provide food and fun while you enjoy breakfast and connect with other adoptive families. Our staff will answer questions and provide helpful parenting resources and our volunteers, who are adoptees themselves, will offer childcare support.

All of our events are open to the public. Adoptive parents with kids ages 6 and below and their siblings are welcome to attend. This event takes place monthly. Join our community and register today!

Cost: $40/family

We will review the process of domestic adoption, types of domestic adoption available and answer your questions.

We look forward to seeing you there!

An information session to learn more about different types of adoption offered through Bethany Christian Services, including Domestic Infant Adoption, Foster Care Adoption, and International Adoption.
Please RSVP to office at 201-703-4371.

Join us for a free International adoption information night!

We will review the process of International adoption, specific countries of interest and answer your questions.

We look forward to seeing you there!

APSAC’s 26th Colloquium will bring high-quality learning opportunities to child maltreatment researchers and practitioners across experience levels and professions. Sessions will be designated as beginning, intermediate, or advanced level content.

Join us June 25-27, 2019, to grow in your understanding of adoption principles and root yourself within the adoption community. The National Adoption Conference gives adoption professionals an opportunity to branch out of their comfort zone as they meet other professionals and explore challenging, innovative adoption concepts. Our inspiring keynotes and breakout sessions feature speakers from across the adoption triad and all fields of adoption and are geared towards adoption professionals.

An information session to learn more about different types of adoption offered through Bethany Christian Services, including Domestic Infant Adoption, Foster Care Adoption, and International Adoption.
Please RSVP to office at 201-703-4371.

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.

Join more than 700 child welfare professionals at the only international conference on family focused treatment services. Workshops are designed for advanced-level professionals who implement treatment family care models and interventions in family settings, including treatment foster, kinship, bio or adoptive families.

This conference will feature amazing presentations on current and cutting edge topics that will inspire, provoke, and precipitate discussions about issues facing the juvenile and family court system.  Plenary sessions highlighted by topic specific training tracks on family law, juvenile justice, child welfare, and family violence; as well as tracks featuring practical and innovative solutions are just the beginning of the educational offerings of the NCJFCJ’s 82nd Annual Conference.

Internationally recognized, the Crimes Against Children Conference is the premier conference of its kind providing practical and interactive instruction to those fighting crimes against children and helping children heal. There were more than 5,000 professionals from around the world in 2018!

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.

An information session to learn more about different types of adoption offered through Bethany Christian Services, including Domestic Infant Adoption, Foster Care Adoption, and International Adoption.
Please RSVP to office at 201-703-4371.

Join colleagues from the prevention, home visiting, research, academic, child welfare, and public policy fields, among others, at the 2019 Prevent Child Abuse America National Conference: Moving Upstream. This informative conference will discuss the cutting-edge research, innovative program practices, and impactful public awareness and policy strategies that help move child abuse and neglect prevention upstream.

An information session to learn more about different types of adoption offered through Bethany Christian Services, including Domestic Infant Adoption, Foster Care Adoption, and International Adoption.
Please RSVP to office at 201-703-4371.

Whether you are just getting started or have been working on the issue for years, we have something for everyone. Our training conference strives to provide intermediate or advanced presentations including core subjects as well as hot topics, criminal trends, and material rarely-seen at other events. With new speakers each year and an array of powerful new workshops, JuST 2019 will not only educate you, but also inspire action and expand your network. Join experts and professionals from across the nation to learn practical ways you and your agency can create sustainable changes and leverage your resources to tackle sex trafficking from all angles.

An information session to learn more about different types of adoption offered through Bethany Christian Services, including Domestic Infant Adoption, Foster Care Adoption, and International Adoption.
Please RSVP to office at 201-703-4371.