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.

2020 – 2021 Monthly Strengthening Your Family
live stream webinar series

For Parents and Professionals

The first 600 registrations are FREE each month

What is the Replanted Conference?

The Replanted Conference is a Christian conference designed for foster and adoptive parents, Safe Family parents, kinship providers, grandparents, pastors, psychologists, social workers, licensed counselors, marriage and family counselors, nurses, and all those who care for orphaned and vulnerable children. We understand firsthand that this journey can be difficult and lonely. The Replanted Conference is a time for you to escape from the distractions and chaos of life and be physically, emotionally, spiritually refreshed, and inspired. The Replanted Conference is not a foster/adoptive recruiting conference. It is all about supporting parents like you on your post-placement journey.

FREE!

For a list of sessions, please visit our main website. Registrants will be able to access the recordings beginning at 6pm CST on October 2 through the month of October.

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

This year, C.A.S.E.’s most popular family event of the year is going VIRTUAL with a fun and interactive morning focused on diversity and inclusion in our adoptive families and communities.

Count Me In: Diversity and Inclusion in Our Adoptive Families and Communities will be a fun, busy and interactive morning of exploring how the issues of diversity and inclusion impact adoptees, adoptive families and the communities that we belong to.

This group will offer single prospective parents an opportunity to meet other people hoping to grow their family through adoption. We will discuss the unique challenges and joys associated with the journey toward single parenthood. Join us and find a community to support you!

We are facilitating this group on multiple dates – November 10th, November 17th, December 1st, December 8th, and December 15th. You’re welcome to join us for any session, whether that’s one session, two sessions, or all five!

This event will be facilitated virtually via Zoom; registration is required and the fee for this event is $20 per session or $85 for all 5 sessions.

Has your child recently asked a question you are not sure how to answer? Are you are wondering: how do I explain this to a 3/5/8-year-old? When is the right time to give these details? This is the group for you. We will share advice on how to talk to your child about their story using words and concepts that fit their age and practical ways to weave adoption into everyday conversation. In this group parents will have the opportunity to ask questions about how best to address the unique aspects of your child’s birth and adoption history.

Zoom link will be sent out the week of the event.

2020 Virtual Annual Adoption & Foster Care Conference

This year’s conference, What’s Adoption Got to Do with It? will provide participants the opportunity to explore the nuances of adoption and the lifelong impact that an adoption can have on an adoptee, their birth parents, and their adoptive parents. Tweens/Teens will also have the opportunity to attend a full-day workshop, where they will explore and discuss important questions through digital art, music, and movie clips.

The 2020 Barker Conference is going VIRTUAL this year, but the inspiration, education, and connection you anticipate every year will remain strong. Take advantage of our early bird special and complete your registration by October 14 (individual registrations are required for each conference attendee).

The National Adoption Conference is a groundbreaking two days of education, training, networking and invaluable resources for all members of the adoption and foster care ‘constellation’. Taking full advantage of an entirely ‘virtual’ conference, we will bring you face to face with some of the Nation’s leading experts and visionaries in the field as well as live entertainment, coffee talk, Q&A’s, diverse exhibitors and even an art gallery to explore.

Web access available for all sessions, films, and music for 6 months AFTER the conference. No additional fees.

This event is for First Birth Mothers and Fathers, Adoptees, Foster Youth Alumni, Foster Parents, Adoptive Parents, Siblings, and Extended Family Members, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, Teachers, and Doctors.

Event Agenda >

This group will offer single prospective parents an opportunity to meet other people hoping to grow their family through adoption. We will discuss the unique challenges and joys associated with the journey toward single parenthood. Join us and find a community to support you!

We are facilitating this group on multiple dates – November 10th, November 17th, December 1st, December 8th, and December 15th. You’re welcome to join us for any session, whether that’s one session, two sessions, or all five!

This event will be facilitated virtually via Zoom; registration is required and the fee for this event is $20 per session or $85 for all 5 sessions.

Join Spence‐Chapin staff members and fellow adoptive parents along with adoptee voices for an open discussion about adoption, race and identity. Our conversation will focus on having discussions about racism with you extended family and how to navigate the upcoming holiday season as a multiracial family. This event is for adoptive parents and prospective adoptive parents. It will take place via Zoom and will be a facilitated group‐based discussion.

Registration is required and the fee for this event is $20 per individual or per couple.

Considering adopting? Want to learn about adoption programs at Spence-Chapin?

Join Spence-Chapin staff to learn about the current landscape of international and domestic adoption and the needs of the children waiting for adoptive families. We’ll discuss the scope of all Spence-Chapin adoption programs including international adoption (South Africa, Colombia, and Bulgaria) and domestic adoption, as well as Spence-Chapin’s adoption services.

Bring your questions! The meeting will include ample opportunity to have your questions answered.

Found in Korea Film:
Q&A with Nam Holtz

We will host a discussion about our interest, disinterest, experience or thoughts about the process of search. How do these conversations happen at home? How do we manage expectations around the process? What does it mean to go through the search process and be unsuccessful/successful?

This event will be facilitated virtually; register below to receive the Zoom link.

The fee for this event is $75 (per individual or per couple), or join us for the full four-part series for $200 (per individual or per couple); the dates of the additional are: September 17thth, October 15th, and January 14th. Participation in this event is included in the Mentorship Program fee for parents whose teen is participating in Spence-Chapin’s Mentorship Program

2020 Adoptive Parents Committee Conference

Cost: $15 per person.

Certificates will be provided upon request for 5 hours of foster care or adoption education.

This workshop will provide a window into the nuanced first-hand narratives of adoptees through videos, anonymized case studies and Angela’s personal stories. This interactive workshop will leave you thinking about the role transracial adoption plays in our quest for racial justice in America.

When:

• Saturday, November 21 from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. EST
• Sunday, December 6 from 4:00-6:00 p.m. EST
• Sunday, December 13 from 4:00-5:00 p.m. EST

This group will offer single prospective parents an opportunity to meet other people hoping to grow their family through adoption. We will discuss the unique challenges and joys associated with the journey toward single parenthood. Join us and find a community to support you!

We are facilitating this group on multiple dates – November 10th, November 17th, December 1st, December 8th, and December 15th. You’re welcome to join us for any session, whether that’s one session, two sessions, or all five!

This event will be facilitated virtually via Zoom; registration is required and the fee for this event is $20 per session or $85 for all 5 sessions.

This group will offer single prospective parents an opportunity to meet other people hoping to grow their family through adoption. We will discuss the unique challenges and joys associated with the journey toward single parenthood. Join us and find a community to support you!

We are facilitating this group on multiple dates – November 10th, November 17th, December 1st, December 8th, and December 15th. You’re welcome to join us for any session, whether that’s one session, two sessions, or all five!

This event will be facilitated virtually via Zoom; registration is required and the fee for this event is $20 per session or $85 for all 5 sessions.

This group will offer single prospective parents an opportunity to meet other people hoping to grow their family through adoption. We will discuss the unique challenges and joys associated with the journey toward single parenthood. Join us and find a community to support you!

We are facilitating this group on multiple dates – November 10th, November 17th, December 1st, December 8th, and December 15th. You’re welcome to join us for any session, whether that’s one session, two sessions, or all five!

This event will be facilitated virtually via Zoom; registration is required and the fee for this event is $20 per session or $85 for all 5 sessions.

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