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This interactive workshop will explore strategies for building and maintaining meaningful relationships and effective communication between birth parents and foster and adoptive parents. Participants will learn how strong family partnerships can support children and youth, strengthen family connections, and promote permanency. The workshop will highlight the Icebreaker Meeting practice as a tool for social workers… |
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The holidays often present unique challenges for foster and adoptive families. With the addition of new children to the family, family members’ expectations for the holidays may change. This presentation…
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Every adoption story carries layers of complex emotions that adoptees may not always have the words to express at any age. This workshop is designed to help parents understand the seven core issues of adoption—loss, rejection, shame, guilt, grief, identity, and control—and how these experiences shape a child’s inner world over time.
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Colorism is a social hierarchy that favors people with lighter skin tones and stigmatizes people with darker skin tones. Colorism frays the fabric of our homes and communities and jeopardizes… |
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Two identities. One kid. Are you ready to hold both? This isn't your average refresher. We're going deep on where LGBTQIA2S+ identity and child welfare systems collide: the double disclosures, the compounded losses, the Minnesota/North Dakota legal patchwork your families are actually navigating. Expect real talk, real data, and a hands-on tool you can use.…
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Maintaining the racial and cultural identity of adoptees of color in transracial placements is crucial to supporting their lifelong mental health, but it can be difficult to determine how those needs will be met by caregivers who do not share their background. Learn a framework for understanding and defining the best ways to assess prospective…
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Inequality in America manifests in many ways, but perhaps nowhere more than in how we eat. From her years of field research, sociologist and ethnographer Priya Fielding-Singh brings us into… |
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Meg will address the challenging behaviors that are specific to the birth through preschool years and give insights as to the message of the behavior and tools to help the adult and child grow in the situation. Meg will show how these challenging behaviors are actually an opportunity to be curious and help create conditions…
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Most of us were taught that the way to change behaviors is through consequences and rewards. But that lens misses something essential: what is happening beneath the behavior. In this practical, hopeful talk, Dr. Tina Payne Bryson challenges common assumptions about discipline and helps caregivers and professionals understand what's really driving children's most challenging behaviors,… |
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Meg Flynn will address the challenging behaviors that are specific to the elementary years and give insights as to the message of the behavior and tools to help the adult… |
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Tragically, the majority of youth cared for in foster, kinship and/or adoptive care have experienced some form of childhood trauma. These traumatic experiences significantly impact how a youth develops emotionally… |
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