New Jersey Adoption Resource Clearing House

Attendees comprise a cross-section of experts including child welfare, mental health, and juvenile justice service providers; legal professionals; advocates for children; and tribal and federal leaders, convening to continue our work towards building the capacity of tribal nations and ensuring that all Indian children have safe, permanent homes.

This is a free event open to adults of color who were adopted or are former foster youth. Space will be provided for participants to explore and share experiences around international adoption, foster care, transracial/interracial adoption, search and reunion, birth/first family and other topics of interest to the group. Space is limited.

Viewing & Live Discussion

Receive a pre-recorded webinar to view prior to attending a live conversation and Q&A session.

Learn how adopted tweens are developing new analytical abilities, and beginning to explore new ideas, identities and world views. They are getting messages from media and peers that they should begin to separate from their family, but most of them are not emotionally ready to do so. Understanding what is happening, and why, really does help!

Target audience: Adoptive parents, first/birth parents and professionals.

The 23rd National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect (NCCAN), sponsored by the Children’s Bureau, will be held virtually over the course of two weeks in April 2023. The 23rd NCCAN will offer a unique opportunity for thought leadership and action-oriented dialogue around Doing Things Differently: Moving from the Challenge to the Change, the theme of this year’s conference. At the 23rd NCCAN, participants will explore strategies for making this vision a reality.

Our virtual conference venue will offer both live and recorded sessions, posters, and a variety of special features, making the 23rd NCCAN not only an event but a destination for learning, engaging, and accessing diverse resources. Join us to learn more about moving from the challenge to the change.

April 12^th 6-7:30pm EST

April 19^th 6-7:30pm EST

April 26^th 6-7:30pm EST

May 3^rd 6-7:30pm EST

May 10^th 6-7:30pm EST

This virtual 5-week support group is for adoptees ages 18-30 who are actively in the process of searching for or reuniting with their birth families.

The group will provide space to explore the unique feelings and challenges associated with searching and reuniting with birth families. Topics will include navigating conflicting feelings, boundaries, expectations and more. Join us and find a community to support you through your process! This event will be facilitated virtually via Zoom; registration is required and the fee for this event is $25 for the series.

Join us for a deeper conversation into a world without the Family Regulation System from those with lived experience, experts, legal scholars, and more…

Show Hope’s Hope for the Journey Conference (formerly the Empowered to Connect Conference) is designed to encourage and equip parents and caregivers meeting the everyday needs of children impacted by adoption and/or foster care. The conference is also a much-needed resource for churches, agencies, and organizations in their care and support of the families and communities they serve.

Premiering Friday, April 14, 2023, With a NEW On-Demand Viewing Period Through June 30, 2023

Free!

Family formation through adoption, for all of its rewards, can also be a time-consuming and emotionally draining process. Robust adoption benefits go far toward mitigating these challenges, but individuals pursuing adoption may still need additional support and flexibility from their employers. In this webinar, NCFA offers a training process for managers and human resource professionals on strategies for best supporting and retaining employees, before, during, and after the adoption process. The speakers will outline what a helpful adoption benefits package looks like, as well as practical ways to offer employees the flexibility they need to successfully pursue an adoption. The speakers will also highlight the multitude of benefits to organizations that support family formation through adoption.

The 23rd NCCAN offers a unique opportunity for thought leadership and action-oriented dialogue around the conference theme, Doing Things Differently: Moving from the Challenge to the Change.

Our virtual conference venue will offer both live and recorded sessions, posters, and a variety of special features, making the 23rd NCCAN not only an event but a destination for learning, engaging, and accessing diverse resources. Join us to learn more about moving from the challenge to the change.

Receive a pre-recorded webinar to view prior to attending a live conversation and Q&A session.

Parenting teens can require deep wells of patience, and challenge you to suspend judgement and listen closely.  Explore how adoption and racial identity formation add to the mix of issues that teens and their parents are navigating. Topics covered include general identity formation, adoption identity, and racial identity.

Target audience: Adoptive parents, first/birth parents and professionals.

Monthly virtual support calls provide a safe space for adoptive parents of color to connect and share their experiences.

This is a group intended to meet the needs of people of color who have built their families through domestic adoption, kinship adoption, international adoption, foster care, same race and transracial/interracial adoption.   This is a free event.  This programming is for adoptive parents of color. Please be respectful of their space.

In this support call first/birth parents will be able to connect, listen and share their experiences of adoption, both private and through the child welfare system. Space will also be provided for participants to explore and share experiences around open adoptions, closed adoptions, recent reunions, same-race adoption, transracial adoption, termination of parental rights, and other topics as decided by the group.

Please remember that this group is for birth/first parents who are related by birth to a child placed in adoption or foster care.  This group is not for adoptive parents.

This webinar will help participants understand affirming practices for supporting autistic LGBTQ+ individuals, including up to date and inclusive terminology, primary experiences/accounts of what it means to be autistic and LGBTQ+, as well as ways that your organization can be inclusive and accessible.

Stronger Together: Uniting to Advance Change

This conference will highlight successful strategies for bridging the divide between public and private sectors of child welfare and related systems and the families and communities they serve. For 3 days, child-and family serving professionals, families, and community representatives will gather to explore effective ways of deepening their relationships and engaging in more effective collaboration.

The Children’s Home Society of New Jersey Fun-Raising Event of the Year!

Are You Wild at Heart?

Bring your friends and families for a fun night at the zoo. Meet other adoptive and kinship families and learn about different animals from all over the world.

Discounted tickets if purchased by March 31st!

Private Event with: Train Rides, Face Painting, Zoo Tours, Dinner & more!

This is a free event open to adults of color who were adopted or are former foster youth. Space will be provided for participants to explore and share experiences around international adoption, foster care, transracial/interracial adoption, search and reunion, birth/first family and other topics of interest to the group. Space is limited.

Viewing & Live Discussion

Receive a pre-recorded webinar to view prior to attending a live conversation and Q&A session.

It is critically important that you become comfortable talking about all the complexities of adoption with adopted children-the sorrows as well as the joys. Learn developmentally appropriate strategies for talking with children about adoption, first families and loss.

Target audience: Prospective and current adoptive parents, first/birth parents and professionals.

Monthly virtual support calls provide a safe space for adoptive parents of color to connect and share their experiences.

This is a group intended to meet the needs of people of color who have built their families through domestic adoption, kinship adoption, international adoption, foster care, same race and transracial/interracial adoption.   This is a free event.  This programming is for adoptive parents of color. Please be respectful of their space.

In this support call first/birth parents will be able to connect, listen and share their experiences of adoption, both private and through the child welfare system. Space will also be provided for participants to explore and share experiences around open adoptions, closed adoptions, recent reunions, same-race adoption, transracial adoption, termination of parental rights, and other topics as decided by the group.

Please remember that this group is for birth/first parents who are related by birth to a child placed in adoption or foster care.  This group is not for adoptive parents.

Open adoption and openness in adoption do not “solve” all the challenges of being adopted. They present different opportunities and challenges for the adoptee, requiring both sets of parents to develop specific attitudes and skills to best support them as they navigate information about and relationships with first/birth families, while being strongly rooted in their adoptive/foster family. How can first/birth and adoptive/foster families grow with the needs of their child? What does it look like to keep the adoptee at the center, supporting them in deciding who their people are, what kind of closeness or distance they want, and how to communicate their needs? Target audience: Prospective and current adoptive parents, first/birth parents and professionals.