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

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Bring the Conference Home

FFTA 34^th Annual Conference on Treatment Family Care

Virtual Conference  September 23-24, 2020

We can’t meet in person this summer, but that won’t stop FFTA’s team of leaders, presenters, exhibitors and sponsors from delivering the only international conference on treatment family care.

Considering adopting from Bulgaria? Meet our Bulgaria Adoption Team and learn more about adoption from Bulgaria. The team is excited to meet you virtually and to share their experiences working in the Bulgaria Adoption Program at Spence-Chapin. We will discuss the adoption process, adoptive parent eligibility and common medical and special needs of children who are currently living and waiting in Bulgaria for their forever families. We will also speak about the current impact that COVID-19 may have on the process.

Whether a child joins a family through domestic adoption, international adoption, or foster care, he or she may have needs that require additional consideration. Pediatrician, author, and adoptive parent Dr. Elaine Schulte helps parents and prospective parents navigate these potential needs with strategies and tips from her book, Caring for Your Adopted Child: An Essential Guide for Parents. Through this webinar, attendees will learn:

• The role of an adoption medicine physician
• The most common medical and mental health concerns for adopted children
• And the importance of positive adoption language in conversation with family, friends, and community

Fee: $18 or $20 (with a Certificate Option)

**PLEASE NOTE: If you purchase the certificate option, your certificate will be available upon successful completion of a post test. The post test will be in your Adoption Learning Partners account after the live event.

In this group we will explore common sleep issues that come up for pre-school and school aged children and offer tangible solutions to help everyone get a good night’s sleep! We will have time for parents to share the unique challenges with sleep. Join us to get guidance on what can help your family.

ARE YOU CONSIDERING ADOPTION AND WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE HOME STUDY PROCESS?

Join us for this FREE webinar, facilitated by our home study supervisor, to learn more about the home study process, including the purpose of the home study, what a home study entails, and how to make the most of your home study experience. Bring your questions – we’ll save time for Q&A.

If you’re considering domestic infant adoption, join us to learn about the pathway of working with an adoption attorney for a private placement. We’ll hear from a panel of attorneys about the process of completing a private adoption and a social worker will speak about the home study process. We’ll save plenty of time for Q&A so bring your questions or feel free to submit questions in advance to Lauren Jiang at ljiang@spence-chapin.org.

The biennial Together for Families Conference is a unique event that connects various stakeholders from across the U.S. and Canada in the Family Support and Strengthening Field to focus on quality practice. This conference, co-hosted by key national organizations in the field, weaves together content related to the field of Family Support, the Strengthening Families Approach, Advancing Equity, and the Standards of Quality for Family Strengthening & Support.

Join us for a conversation with transracial adult adoptees as they discuss their stories, and what they wish they had shared in their youth with their parents about race/racism. We will also talk about ways to have tough conversations about these topics at home and in light of recent events.

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, November 19th, 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

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 racism experienced in the Black community. This will take place via Zoom and will be a facilitated group-based discussion.

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

There is a lot going on in the world right now. Join us in a virtual discussion on October 20th from 6-8pm about how this year’s current events impact us as adoptees. This discussion is open to both international and domestic adoptees only (age 18+), and will be led by Jessica M. Luciere, a transracial international adoptee, Director of the Spence-Chapin Mentorship Program, and President of All Together Now.

If you are not an adoptee (age 18+), please respect that this conversation is only to serve the adoptee community; we welcome you to one of our many other events.

This is a FREE event but registration is required. Please by emailing postadoption@spence-chapin.org in order to receive the Zoom link.

Join us to hear from our International Team! The team is excited to meet you virtually and to share their experiences working in the International Adoption Program at Spence-Chapin. The team will discuss their backgrounds, what brought them to the field of adoption, examples of their day to day work, and some of their favorite moments of working as an adoption professional with families like yours! The team looks forward to answering any questions you have about adoption processes and their work internationally with our partners in Bulgaria, Colombia, and South Africa.

Bring your questions! There will be plenty of time for Q & A.

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.

Our International Team is excited to host this webinar and to share information about Colombia’s rich cultural history, history of adoption, and recent shifts in child welfare that have had a positive impact on children living in alternative care settings. We will discuss common medical and special needs of children who are currently living and waiting in Colombia for their forever families. We look forward to answering any questions you may have about adoption in general and specific questions about adoption from Colombia. We will also use some of our time together to introduce you to some of the waiting children we are currently advocating to find a permanent and loving home.

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

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.

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.

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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

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