New Jersey Adoption Resource Clearing House

An activity based counseling group for children ages 7-9

The group will meet for eight sessions on Thursdays September 26, 2019 – November 21, 2019 (not October 31st)

Group Goals:

• Improve skills in self-regulation and using effective coping strategies
• Identify personal stress responses and coping styles
• Build self-esteem and increase self-awareness
• Gain appreciation of similarities and differences with others
• Improve conflict resolution skills
• Establish group unity and have fun!

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.

Attendees will explore a range of topics in the youth justice field — such as race and ethnic equity; probation transformation; youth, family and community engagement and partnership; and deep-end system reform — in addition to detention reform fundamentals and innovations.

The Training Institute is a full-day program designed to improve participants’ capacity to identify and manage cross-border permanency planning and child welfare cases.The training will help participants develop key skills to solve the problems that will be the focus of the conference on the following day.

Two day tickets are available as well as individual tickets for each day. Two day Early Bird Registration passes include free tickets to our Welcome Reception on the 17th. Register before it’s too late! Early Bird prices are only available until August 31.

CEUs will be offered through the University of Maryland School of Social Work.

Half day series of workshops are open to pre-adoptive parents, adoptive parents, foster parents, foster children and adoptees.
Workshop Topics:
For Adults: Emotion Regulation, Building Health Coping Strategies, Talking to your Kids about Difficult History
3 Steps to Reduce Anxiety and Stress Workshop, Verbal Diffusion and Defensive Skills and “Can We Talk?” Parents discussion.

For Youth: Identity Tree, Verbal Diffusion and Defensive Skills, Mandala Art Project, Pawsitive Involvement with Animals, Sensory Stations and much more!

Visit www.cpfanj.org for registration and workshop details.
Space is limited so please register early!
FREE for current CPFA members, $25 fee per family for non-members.*
This fee will entitle your family to one year of CPFA membership.
*The conference includes a continental breakfast. A pizza lunch will be offered at a minimal cost. Lunch and networking session available at the end of the day to meet and speak with professionals and other parents and adoptees on a more intimate level.

The Families Learning Conference is the premier event focused on innovative strategies and practices in family literacy and learning, two-generation education, and parent and family engagement. Attending the conference will equip educators, program staff, and librarians with tools and strategies to use right away with the students, families, and communities.

This conference is open to attorneys, social workers, foster parents, CASA staff/volunteers, CAC staff, law enforcement, faith-based leaders, nonprofits, university students, and more! We look at the full picture of impact from child abuse and neglect, including trafficking, substance abuse, domestic violence, and prevention efforts. It is held in Lafayette, Louisiana and has an average attendance of 650. This is the 17th year.

This year’s conference theme, “Layered Vulnerabilities,” focuses on the young people whose identity or history challenges mainstream perception and policy around CSEC. Some of these populations include youth in the child welfare system, young people who identify as LGBTQ, children with intellectual or developmental disabilities, and boys. Join mental health practitioners, law enforcement professionals, academics, researchers, educators, and others who seek to broaden their understanding of the topic and make valuable connections with others in the field.

CEU’s provided

Thinking about starting a birth parent search? Curious about search and reunion? Want to hear stories from others who have reunited with birth relatives?

Join us for a night of conversation about the complexities of search and reunion. No matter where you are in the search process, you’ll walk away having connected with other adoptees who can relate to your experiences and understand the questions you may have.

This event is for adult adoptees 18 and older. Advance registration is required.

To learn more, please contact us at (646) 539-2167 or postadoptionservices@spence-chapin.org

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.

The SSWR Annual Conference offers a scientific program that reflects a broad range of research interests, from workshops on the latest quantitative and qualitative research methodologies to symposia featuring studies in child welfare, aging, mental health, welfare reform, substance abuse, and HIV/AIDS. Over 500 symposia, workshop, roundtable, paper and poster presentations. Research methods workshops designed to enhance methods expertise and grant-writing skills and special sessions on research priorities and capacity building that target cutting-edge topics vital to contemporary social work research. Pre-conference programs and a networking reception especially for doctoral students.

Creating Change 2020!

Creating Change is a space that allows for expressing political differences, but we ask that this be done with respect for each other. This may be difficult at times, but our challenge is to stay open and not shut down or silence others. We choose to honor everyone’s dignity and humanity celebrating their right to be who they are – to be whole. We challenge ourselves to recognize and disrupt power dynamics that have perpetually harmed people, particularly Black and brown people, for generations. All of us are invited to challenge our assumptions about each other and our complex identities.

SHARING IDEAS THAT STRENGTHEN FAMILIES
AND ENGAGE COMMUNITIES TO PROMOTE CHILD WELL-BEING

All proposals are due no later than Friday, August 2, 2019.

We look forward to receiving proposals that share the best ideas and proven strategies from around the world that focus on strengthening families and engaging communities to promote child well-being. We want proposals that describe endeavors at program and systems levels, including how they are planned and developed. We also encourage sharing strategies for policy and organizational change as well as funding.  Outcomes are valued, especially the research and evaluation designs.