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.

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.

Fee: $20

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 talking with your child about race and racism as they grow older, thriving as a multicultural family and fostering connections to your child’s race and culture. This event is for adoptive parents and prospective adoptive parents. It will take place via Zoom and will be a facilitated group-based discussion.

In this 70 minutes online sound play, we will experience music through a series of games. We will investigate sound and emotion, dramatize movement, play with rhythm and vocalization, and reflect on the music that surrounds us. We will build self-awareness and understanding of how music helps us process our feelings, emotions and personal identity. No prior musical experience or knowledge is required.

Some examples of what’s included in the online workshop:
* Listening activities: linking individual sounds and music excerpts to our emotions
* Sound and movement exercise—dramatizing physical responses to sound
* Conductor + Orchestra activity—all participants engage in sound game to experience pattern shifts that occur in all music
* Discussions based around each activity to explore parts of the music process

Join our next virtual gathering!

BOOK FOR DISCUSSION: 

The Light Between Oceans

by M.L. Stedman

Join us for a discussion of this richly written novel. Set off the coast of Australia after World War I, its themes of adoption, chance and choice, loss and love are timeless and relevant.

WHERE: Register at www.fccny.org by Wednesday, Jan.  27 to receive a Zoom link and password to the conversation. Participation is free, but registration is required.

What makes a mother give away her baby? This is the big question in Sun Hee Engelstoft’s poignant heartbreaker of a film Forget Me Not, about three Korean women who have become pregnant outside of marriage and are now hiding from the outside world until they give birth. Join us in our continuing series for Also-Known-As’ 25th Anniversary — a 2-day pass to view this documentary, culminating in a discussion with director Sun Hee Engelstoft, as she shares what she learned while making this film and investigated the underlying reasons for the availability of Korean children for adoption.

Who: Open to the public, adoptees, friends
When: Thursday, February 4, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm ET
Where: Register to receive a 2-day movie pass and/or discussion event link at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcuf-qoqjkjHNEfbeVTplTi5s1n4bO3Ymy_

After registering, you will receive the zoom link for the discussion event, and also a code to view the movie anytime between Tuesday, February 2nd, and Thursday, February 4.

A Conference-Within-A-Conference for Parents & Caregivers

Building Resilience & Improving Children’s Outcome

Our “conference-within-a-conference” focuses on trauma-informed, attachment-focused parenting & caregiving, often called Connected Parenting or Therapeutic Parenting.

SAVE THE DATES!

Families Growing Together Through Adoption

The Families Learning Conference is for passionate people looking for innovative family learning strategies and practices to build stronger communities. Attending will provide exposure to a network of peers and funders, industry knowledge, and new teaching methods to take a more holistic approach to family engagement. Attendees are educators spanning preschool to adult learning, staff of community-based organizations and coalitions, librarians, parent leaders, funders, and researchers.

This 2-day conference features noted national and Michigan experts who will address a range of topics in the field of child abuse prevention, assessment, and treatment. In addition to the keynote presentations and plenary session, attendees will have a choice of over 30 workshops focusing on recent advances and best practices in the areas of prevention, medical issues, child advocacy, and law enforcement.

This unforgettable and inspiring conference features today’s most pressing issues in the anti-trafficking field. Presentations and workshops focus on skill-building, survivor experiences, cross-discipline collaboration, task force development, case studies and lessons learned. The JuST Conference continues to stand by the motto that each person has a role to play in preventing and ending commercial sexual exploitation, and that a collaborative community response is critical.