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  • [For Professionals] Using Icebreaker Meetings to Help Bridge the Gap

    - Ongoing Learning

    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…

  • Parents of Adopted Adults Support Group

    Parents of Adopted Adults Support Group
    - Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United States
    - Support Groups

    A support group for individuals who have an adult (18+) child adopted through any type of adoption (infant, international, foster care adoption). Sessions will be held online. Parents from any placing agency/county are welcome to attend.  While each story is unique, we recognize that there are many core similarities that adoption weaves into life experiences.…

  • Support Group: Central MN Parenting Support

    Support Group: Central MN Parenting Support
    Great River Regional Library 1300 W. St. Germain St., St. Cloud

    Join our in-person support group for foster, adoptive, and kinship caregivers in St Cloud and surrounding area. Childcare and dinner are provided. Pre-registration is required. Click on the Support Group Link to pre-register. Location: 1300 W. St. Germain St. Room 268 Facilitated by Katie Nueman Parent Support Specialist

    Free

  • The New Science of Rumination, Trauma, and Well-Being, with Donna Jackson Nakazawa

    Drawing on contemporary neuroscience from Nakazawa’s book, Mind Drama, this  webinar is designed for adoptive, foster, and kinship parents raising children who have experienced early adversity, attachment disruptions, and chronic stress. It explores how children’s brains and nervous systems can become caught in patterns of looping thoughts, self-criticism, worry, or dissociation, how these responses originate in…

  • Share and Support Group

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

    Support Groups are an excellent tool where families are able to share experiences and encourage each other in a confidential, non-judgmental setting.  Support Groups are facilitated by North Homes case managers, with years of experience in both adoption and foster care fields.  It is an opportune time for families to network, problem solve, and gather…

    Free