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FALL FORUM: Ambiguity, Loss, & Grief: Supporting Children, Teens, & Young Adults in Foster Care

- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United States

“My parents didn’t die, but it felt like that.” When children and teens are separated from their families, they search for belonging while navigating the new contexts and people surrounding them. In this dynamic session, Dr. Monique B. Mitchell reveals the questions children have as they cope with ambiguity and loss in foster care: Why?…

FALL FORUM: Empowered Healing: A Strengths-Based Approach to Trauma and Well-Being

- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United States

Discover how cutting-edge neurobiology redefines the trauma response—not as a sign of weakness or disorder, but as the body’s natural, functional response to threat. In this transformative training, you’ll learn how to reframe trauma from an empowered, strengths-based perspective, and learn how to harness inherent resilience. This training provides practical tools you can immediately integrate…

Debunking Myths and Engaging Community About Foster Care & Adoption

- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United States

There are more than 6,000 children at any given time in Minnesota in foster care, over 500 of whom are waiting to be adopted. A panel of adoptive and foster parents, along with foster care and adoption professionals from Big Stone County will share their stories and answer your questions about foster care and adoption…

Event Series Search & Reunion Support Group

Search & Reunion Support Group

- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United States

This group is for adult adoptees and birth parents who are not related to one another and who are considering, or active in, search and reunion or have searched and the other party is not open to contact. This group is facilitated by CH/LSS staff. Members are supportive of one another and willing to share…

The Voices of Lived Expertise Virtual Training Series

- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United States
Virtual Event Virtual Event

Join us for a four-part virtual training series that delves deep into the difficult truths of adoption and the foster care system. Designed to equip professionals and caregivers with essential knowledge and tools, each session is thoughtfully delivered by subject matter experts with lived experience as adoptees or individuals who spent time in foster or kinship care. Families Rising…

Event Series Caregiver Roundtable

Caregiver Roundtable

Ampersand Families Office 1751 County Rd B West Suite 300, Roseville

For all Ampersand-affiliated adoptive, pre-adoptive, and kinship caregivers. Caregivers are invited to share their experiences and get support from other caregivers while youth participate in an activity supervised by Ampersand Families staff. Dinner is provided for all.…

Free

Connect2Connect: LGBTQ+ Community Gathering

Color Me Mine 12155 Elm Creek Blvd N, Maple Grove, United States

Color Me Mine Saturday, November 23, 2024, from 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Join us for an artsy day at Color Me Mine in Maple Grove, Minnesota! We will be…

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