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Building a Pathway for Trauma-Informed Youth
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesThrough childhood and adolescence we encounter critical incidents in which the opportunity to become more aware of ourselves and emotionally connected to another is made available. Trauma steals that from…
Strategies to Support Foster and Adoptive Families with Gender Expansive and LGBTQIA+ Youth
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesThere are amazing aspects to caring for a child or teen who is either questioning- or clear- that they are a member of the LGBTQIA+ community. At the same…
Deeper Dive Webinar: Navigating the Transition from Adolescence to Young Adulthood
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesAs adoptive and foster parents, we know that our youth may need additional supports as they enter adulthood, but these supports are often hard to find and difficult to understand.…
The Role of Technology in Anxiety Among Kids
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesTechnology plays an important role in all our lives and children are increasingly more digitally literate than their parents. While technology—and social media in particular—can bring people together, it also…
8th International Conference on Adoption Research
University of Minnesota, Twin CitiesCelebrating its 25th anniversary, the International Conference on Adoption Research (ICAR8) is a premier event for attendees from the Global South and Global North who are devoted to ensuring permanent, nurturing family care for every child. A cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas, innovation and information, the conference explores how to improve the entire spectrum of services…
[For Professionals] Exploring Complicated Relationships in Foster and Adoptive Families
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesFoster families claim and then relinquish children they love. Children who are adopted change the families who claim them in permanent ways. Blended families often have foster children, adopted children and birth children. These children all have different experiences of what being part of a family means. Loyalty, loss, anger, trauma and fear create an…
Lifelong Issues in Adoption: Reframing the discourse through lived experiences
Northrop Auditorium 84 Church St SE, MinneapolisDuring the past two decades more than 27,000 adoptees have joined Minnesota families from abroad or the public welfare system. Many, if not most, are now at an age where they are grappling with issues of identity and race, questioning how and whether to search for birth family, and wondering if their early experiences might…
Families Rising’s 50th Annual Adoption and Foster Care Conference
Virtual Conference conference@wearefamiliesrising.orgWe are thrilled to offer scholarships for Minnesota parents and professionals to attend Families Rising’s 50th annual adoption and foster care conference! This year’s conference will be held online July 17 and July 18, 2024. Thanks to the Minnesota Department of Human Services, a limited number of scholarships are available for: Minnesota adoptive, foster, and kinship parents Minnesota…
Supporting Your Teen Through the College Years and Early Adulthood: The Seven Core Struggles in Adoption
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesAdoption is a lifelong journey, and adopted individuals face different challenges during each stage of life. The late adolescent and early adult years offer unique opportunities for growth, independence, and identity formation, but also create new obstacles as life experiences expand beyond the shelter of the familiar. Build your knowledge of the common developmental struggles…
Autistic, NOT “with Autism”
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesMuch is happening in the world of Autism as Autistic adults are leading the field and bringing hopeful changes. This workshop is for those just beginning to learn about Autism…
Understanding the Impact of Birth Order
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesFoster and adoptive parents often wonder about birth order in relation to fostering or adopting when they already have children by birth. This presentation will examine the significance of birth order, and encourage participants to consider how it relates to birth/existing kids in foster and adoptive families. Daniela Coats is a Licensed Master Social Worker in…
[IN PERSON] For Professionals: Silent Battle
Great River Regional Library 1300 West Saint Germain St, St. Cloud, United StatesPlease join other professionals as we learn more about the nervous system and how it reacts to stress. Each person we meet has an internal fight going on. Those who…
