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8th International Conference on Adoption Research
8th International Conference on Adoption Research
Celebrating 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…
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[For Professionals] Exploring Complicated Relationships in Foster and Adoptive Families
[For Professionals] Exploring Complicated Relationships in Foster and Adoptive Families
Foster 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…
Kinship Parenting and Building Resilience
Kinship Parenting and Building Resilience
This training acknowledges the complexities associated with Relative/Kinship caregiving through fostering and adoption. Topics will include divided loyalties, redefining roles and relationships, setting boundaries with parents and other relatives, the range of emotions caregivers can feel and how children who have experienced trauma, separation, or loss can impact a caregiver’s own well-being. Strategies for how…
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Lifelong Issues in Adoption: Reframing the discourse through lived experiences
Lifelong Issues in Adoption: Reframing the discourse through lived experiences
During 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…
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Live Webinar | Ages & Stages of Healthy Sexual Development
Live Webinar | Ages & Stages of Healthy Sexual Development
The goal of each webinar in the series is to provide information on healthy sexual development by discussing typical developmental milestones and what this means for caregivers. Participants will also have the opportunity to practice responding to ”teachable moments” about healthy sexuality with the young people in their lives. June Presenter: Cat Hammond brings more…
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Families Rising’s 50th Annual Adoption and Foster Care Conference
Families Rising’s 50th Annual Adoption and Foster Care Conference
We 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
Supporting Your Teen Through the College Years and Early Adulthood: The Seven Core Struggles in Adoption
Adoption 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…
Live Webinar: Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) and Early Learning Scholarships (ELS)
Live Webinar: Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) and Early Learning Scholarships (ELS)
Minnesota has two programs that may be helpful to kinship caregivers who may need assistance paying for childcare. The Early Learning Scholarship Program awards scholarships to families with the highest needs who meet eligibility requirements. Minnesota’s Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) can help make quality child care affordable for families with low incomes. Learn more…
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Autistic, NOT “with Autism”
Autistic, NOT “with Autism”
Much 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 OR are just starting to challenge the harmful ways Western culture has stigmatized the Autistic brain/functioning. The purpose of this gathering is to bring about…
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Understanding the Impact of Birth Order
Understanding the Impact of Birth Order
Foster 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…
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[IN PERSON] For Professionals: Silent Battle
[IN PERSON] For Professionals: Silent Battle
Please 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 have experienced trauma, including the kids on your caseload, are fighting every day to just be. Learn how you can aid in the healing journey.…
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