Join adoptive parents, adoptees and Spence-Chapin social workers for a virtual, interactive discussion about tough conversations, loss, transitions, and relationships. Have these topics come up in your home? How have you navigated them? How might the adoptee perspective differ from the adoptive … [Read more...]

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 … [Read more...]

Price: 25.00 USD Dr. Susan Branco provides findings related to research on adult Colombian transnational adoptee search and reunion experiences with first families. The process of searching, motivating factors, and experiences with first family members in Colombia are described. Implications for … [Read more...]

Price: 25.00 USD Adoption is a lifelong process. There are many issues that can arise over time for the adoptee, birth family and adoptive parents that can create ethical dilemmas for professionals who are trying to best preserve the rights of each party. In this session Sabra Starnes, an … [Read more...]

Price: 25.00 USD "What could a de-railed reunion in Korea teach me about grief and healing?" This is a live, interactive, adoption-informed and adoptee-centered workshop for clinicians, consultants, therapists, counselors, child-welfare workers and family members in the adoption community. Cam … [Read more...]

Price: 25.00 USD Contrary to conventional beliefs and attitudes that a baby will not remember or be affected by early life experiences, the neurological impacts of stress in very early life such as relinquishment should be re-framed, acknowledged, and understood as a form of developmental … [Read more...]

Ambiguous Loss & How to Help Children Cope with Uncertainty Do you know or work with children who:  - Are in foster care or being raised by grandparents? - Are separated from their parents for long periods of time? - Have parents with substance abuse? - Were unable to attend a funeral or … [Read more...]

Supporting Needs and Strengthening Bonds in Adoption Jeanette Yoffe, M.A., MF.T., has been in the field for over 20 years, providing mental health education and support, as a psychotherapist, foster care social worker, clinical director, trainer for Los Angeles County Child & Family Services … [Read more...]

The 2022 North American Council on Adoptable Children virtual conference 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. The … [Read more...]

Learn how to advocate for adoption assistance programs in your state or province. In these tight financial times, legislators sometimes seek to cut adoption assistance programs and advocates need to be ready to respond. Even if your state's adoption assistance program is not under threat, … [Read more...]