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

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.

Get practical and ethical advice about what to expect when pre-adopters have been matched with expectant parents in an adoption plan, with a particular focus on what to expect at the hospital when a child is being placed for adoption. We will focus on how to manage the complex time when a child is born and the first/birth parent(s) are making the legal and emotional decision about whether to move forward with placing that child for adoption.

Did you know sex trafficking is only second to drugs in terms of criminal profit globally – about $32 billion * industry worldwide?  And that it impacts children in our own backyard?

Please join us for this crucial discussion to learn more about:

• How to identify children who may be impacted by sex trafficking.
• The role you can play to deal with this pressing and growing problem.
• Learn from prominent organizations working on prevention efforts.

9:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast.  Limited Seating Available.

Free & Open to All

Join hundreds of mental health professionals, grieving families, and community representatives in learning how best to support families recover from a traumatic death or loss. This year, there are twelve workshops for attendees, that will enhance a multi-disciplinary response to grief and loss.

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.

Hello,

You are invited to the following event:

Suicide Awareness for Youths and Adults

Question, Persuade, and Refer (PR)

We hope you can make it!

Cheers,

Summit Oaks Hospital

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.

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.

Mandated Reporter Training trains professionals and students not only how to report child abuse and neglect, but also how to recognize it. Training includes the Child Protection Law, responsibilities of Mandated Reporters, indicators of child abuse/neglect, and information on Children’s Protective Services.

Training is $10 per person for students, and $15 per person for professionals. These events are open for anyone to join, are two hours long.

By popular demand, Pact Family Camp has expanded! Join other adoptive families for our 3rd annual Pact Family Camp East! Families with adopted children of color assemble for this five-day residential experience to have fun, build community, and learn together as part of Pact’s child-centered, race-conscious, honesty-based approach to adoption, race and family.

Pact Family Camp East, is a six-day/five-night event that brings together families with adopted children of color from across the country to share experiences, learn from experts, and build community. All of the camp counselors and most of the featured speakers are people of color, and most have a personal connection to adoption. In recent years Pact Family Camp has expanded welcoming birth/first parents and adult adoptees of color, which has greatly enriched the experience for all participants.

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.

Once again, the top leaders in child welfare are coming together! Join NACC and a national community of attorneys, judges, social workers, CASAs, health professionals, and other children’s advocates as we gather to learn, improve our skills, and find inspiration and renewed commitment to child welfare work.

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.