Adoption Family Program Updates
Please join us as we begin our Winter/Spring 2013 family event series. We have two primary goals as we work through these programs.
First, we aim to help parents and children have:
- A forum and strategies for initiating and maintaining open discussion about the impact of their adoption across school age, teen, and adult years.
- A place to learn strategies to consider how adoption brings questions of belonging, identity, and transracial differences.
- A venue for learning, together, ways to respond when other people in your family’s community ask intrusive questions.
Second, we hope this series will help parents and children and teens connect with other families and adoptive individuals, and a place to develop relationships that may be helpful when life as an adoptive family hits road blocks and speed bumps.
January 12: Opening Doors in Adoption
We are excited to host our lead speaker, Bethany Willis Hepp, PhD, who is an emerging leader in the field of open adoption and post adoption related challenges for children and their families. Learn more and register today »
February 9: Working through Issues Related to Adoption
Please join us as Cheryl Nitz, MSW explores with parents the explicit adoption related challenges their children may face, and offers direct counseling strategies on how to discuss these topics with their children. Learn more and register today »
March 9: Lifebooks and Journaling
Please join us in this seminar centered around the art of building life books and journaling. You may have a lifebook for your child you want to add to, and your child can have an opportunity to build their own life book. Learn more and register today »
May 4: Living Life Together as a Transracial Family
We are thrilled to have the commitment of Rhonda Roorda, author of several excellent books, including “In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories." Ms. Roorda is a dynamic and nationally known speaker in this topic, herself an adoptee who grew up in a wonderfully transracial family.
We are delighted to be collaborating with Bethany Christian Children's to bring this event to you. Please save the afternoon and stay tuned for details of this great event!
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