Adoptive, kinship, and foster parents, child welfare professionals, adoptees, foster care alumni, and other child adovcates - if you have been touched by adoption or foster care, this is the conference to attend! The sessions inspire, inform, and encourage all members of the adoption and foster … [Read more...]
27th New York State Annual Foster Care and Adoption Conference
Changing Landscape, the 2016 New York State Foster Care and Adoption Conference presented by the Coalition will focus on emerging trends and recent legislation that will transform the practice of foster care and adoption in the coming decade. Eighteen years since the passage and implementation of … [Read more...]
2016 National Foster Parent Association & National Kinship Alliance for Children Conference
The annual NFPA convention is a gathering of foster, adoptive, and kinship parents, along with child welfare professionals from across the country. It includes three days of educational workshops and keynote sessions. Parents can earn up to 20 training hours. … [Read more...]
The Rudd-REFCA 2016 Conference
The day will feature useful and exciting perspectives shared by practitioners, researchers, those who have been adopted, those who have experienced foster care, their family members, and policy makers. … [Read more...]
Parents as Leaders in Early Childhood: Creating Change so ALL Children Succeed
Register by phone: (973) 642-8100 ext. 123 or email start@spannj.org This conference will help families develop their skills advocating for their children and impacting the systems that affect their children birth to age 8 and beyond. Parents will have the opportunity to gain skills for … [Read more...]
Voices United for Youth: Visions of a Better Tomorrow
The NJ Department of Children and Families and the Institute for Families at Rutgers University School of Social Work invite youth and those that work with youth who have experience in the New Jersey child welfare system to join in a day of collaborative learning and networking with fellow child … [Read more...]
Promoting Resilience in Communities Impacted by Trauma
9/11 Families, Survivors and Responders: No Charge Symposium Fee for Professionals: $75; 5 CEU Credits: $50; Students: $25; Exhibitor Table Fee: $100 9/11 families, responders and survivors are invited guests. Mental health and public health providers, emergency managers and law enforcement … [Read more...]
Six Biennial Conference of the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture ASAC 2016: Building Communities, Changing Discourses
This conference looks at stories, histories, and life experiences of adoption that deal with forming new communities and new discourses – about family, transnationalism, origins, law, ethics, race and ethnicity, foster care, assisted reproduction, and much more. We encourage discussion of … [Read more...]
Concerned Persons for Adoption 5th Annual Concerned Persons for Adoption Spring Mini Conference For Parents and Kids (ages 7-13)
Our half day series of workshops are open to pre-adoptive parents, adoptive parents, foster parents, foster children and adoptees Space is limited so please register early! FREE for current CPFA members, $25 fee per family for non-members.* This fee will entitle your family to a year of CPFA … [Read more...]
Annual Adoption Gathering – Continuing the Journey
“The Annual Adoption Gathering will be a safe place to explore the many emotions experienced by adoptees, birthparents and other touched by Ohio’s opening of adoptees’ birth records, but it goes far beyond that as well,” said Executive Director Betsie Norris. “We welcome all hose walking the … [Read more...]