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[Fall Forum] [Foster] Home for the Holidays: Helping Birth Kids Find Predictability in a Season of Change
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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[Fall Forum] Understanding Your Adoptee’s Adoption Story: The Seven Core Issues
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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[Fall Forum] COLORISM: The Politics of Skin Tone and How We Get Free
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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[Fall Forum] Woven Identities: Supporting LGBTQIA2S+ Children, Youth & Young Adults Across Adoption, Foster Care & Kinship Care
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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[Fall Forum] Transracial Adoption Placement Assessment: A Hierarchy of Racial and Cultural Identity Needs in Adoptees
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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[Fall Forum] How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequity in America
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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Accessing the Refundable Portion of the 2025 Adoption Tax Credit
Virtual Conference conference@wearefamiliesrising.orgWebinar and Q&A with Josh Kroll November 12 | 6:00-7:30 PM CST Learn how much you can expect to receive in refundable credits this fall for adoptions finalized between 2020-2025.…
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[Fall Forum] Challenging Behaviors at Every Stage of Development: Birth to Preschool Years
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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Rethinking Challenging Behavior: Relationship, Regulation & the Brain in Mind
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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Challenging Behaviors at Every Stage of Development: Elementary Years
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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Reflecting and Unpacking Complex Behaviors
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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Movement as Medicine: Somatic Tools for Caregivers & Professionals
In this interactive, research-backed webinar, attendees will experience firsthand how somatic movement can physically rewire the brain, promote trauma recovery, and serve as a powerful protective factor against substance misuse.…