Adult Adoptee Support Group
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United States +1 moreAdult Adoptees from all placing agencies are welcome to attend. While each story is unique, we recognize that there are many core similarities that adoption weaves into life experiences. Topics…
Relative/Kinship Parenting and Building Resilience Training
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…
Foster Care and Education Classes – Online
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesThe online track is best suited for individuals who want flexibility, have limited business hour availability, and/or those who prefer virtual learning. Couples may complete their education together or pursue…
Foster Care and Adoption Education Classes – In-Person
Pioneer Grill 4403 Pioneer Rd SE, AlexandriaThis education option is best suited for individuals who need or desire to complete their education quickly, prefer in-person learning, and/or those who have previously completed education and want a…
Connect2Connect: Community Gathering
Sky Zone 7625 Cahill Road, Edina, MN, United StatesJoin Us for Community & Connection Connect2Connect provides opportunities for foster and adoptive families to connect with one another and build relationships in an in-person, interactive, and fun way. Connect2Connect is…
DHS Presentation: Independent Living Skills Planning and Youth Engagement
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesPlease join us for a workshop in which we will explore ways to engage and empower youth in their own independent living plan. Kim Lemcke from DHS will provide tools and resources for county and tribal workers. She will also provide foster parents with ways to assist foster youth in navigating a successful transition to…
Strengthening Your Resilience as a Caregiver
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesExplore sources of stress inherent to kinship caregiving, understand the important role of kinship caregiving, identify your protective factors, and identify what you can do to address stress in helpful ways to become more resilient. Presenter: Janet Salo is a Kinship Navigator with the Kinship Family Support Services, a service of Lutheran Social Service of…
Greater Minnesota Parent Support Group
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesOpen to pre-adoptive, adoptive, foster, relative and/or kinship caregivers living in Greater Minnesota (outside the Twin Cities Metro Area). This online group is facilitated by CH/LSS staff and offers connection, positive parenting strategies, support, and more! After registration, you will receive a link to join the next Zoom session. This service is provided by funding made…
[Part 3] The Intersection of Transracial Adoption & Racial (in)Justice
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesPlease join Angela Tucker for a three-part webinar series designed for adoption agencies (staff and families), child-welfare organizations and conferences. Transracial caregiving is a multifaceted journey for the entire family,…
Search & Reunion Support Group
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesThis group is for adult adoptees and birth parents who are not related to one another and who are considering, or active in, search and reunion or have searched and…
[Part 2] Consent Toolbox Through a Cultural Lens – Age 10 to 18
- Online Webinar/Training, Support Group, or Meeting MN, United StatesThe last of two sessions will focus on youth ages 10-18. Please note: Part one of this series (on April 3) addresses ages 0-9. Consent is complex and this workshop…
[IN-PERSON] Tracking the Body to Interpret and Respond in Foster & Adoptive Relationships
2117 Campus Drive SE Rochester, MN 55904 2117 Campus Drive SE Rochester, MN 55904, RochesterThis in-person event will be held at Olmsted County Community Services 2117 Campus Drive SE Rochester, MN 55904 If capacity limit is reached, please email edu@fosteradoptmn.org to join the waitlist. This workshop…