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 … [Read more...]

CE – eligible under Pact, an Adoption Alliance CAMFT Provider #131157, processing fee of $15 only for CE certificates Within the context of adoption—and our racialized world—explore how to have courageous, truthful conversations with children that center their emotional and mental well-being. … [Read more...]

FEE: Family - $100 AFTH wants families to make informed decisions when completing their profile keys. Dr. Erin Meyer is an internal medicine and pediatric hospitalist who works in the neonatal intensive care unit. She is also an adoptive mom and can speak from both professional and personal angles. … [Read more...]

Identity is not something adoptees “figure out once.” It evolves over time—often in ways that raise complex questions about race, belonging, family, and self. This session invites adult adoptees into an honest, respectful conversation about identity within adoption, with space for reflection, … [Read more...]

Learn about Spence-Chapin’s innovative host-to-adopt program that prioritizes adoption for children from Colombia, ages 10-13 years old. For families who are open to older child adoption, this pathway provides both you and the child an opportunity to get to know each other and commence the bonding … [Read more...]

Learn about Spence-Chapin’s innovative host-to-adopt program that prioritizes adoption for children from Colombia, ages 10-13 years old. For families who are open to older child adoption, this pathway provides both you and the child an opportunity to get to know each other and commence the bonding … [Read more...]

Fee: $30.00 You’re invited to join our first-ever Virtual Book Club!  This group will be co-facilitated by Michelle Sarao, and Yvonne Brown, Social Work interns at Spence-Chapin. Michelle is a domestic adoptee and parent; Yvonne is an adoptive parent. Over the course of 3 months we will … [Read more...]

Fee: $30.00 You’re invited to join our first-ever Virtual Book Club!  This group will be co-facilitated by Michelle Sarao, and Yvonne Brown, Social Work interns at Spence-Chapin. Michelle is a domestic adoptee and parent; Yvonne is an adoptive parent. Over the course of 3 months we will … [Read more...]

Fee: $30.00 You’re invited to join our first-ever Virtual Book Club!  This group will be co-facilitated by Michelle Sarao, and Yvonne Brown, Social Work interns at Spence-Chapin. Michelle is a domestic adoptee and parent; Yvonne is an adoptive parent. Over the course of 3 months we will … [Read more...]

Learn about Spence-Chapin’s innovative host-to-adopt program that prioritizes adoption for children from Colombia, ages 10-13 years old. For families who are open to older child adoption, this pathway provides both you and the child an opportunity to get to know each other and commence the bonding … [Read more...]