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Families Forever Training Series
Grow your knowledge and enhance your skills with this educational series featuring four popular trainings. One sign-up grants you access to four weeks of classes designed to help you understand the unique needs of adopted children and your role as a parent or guardian.
Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency- November 4th from 6:00-7:00 p.m.
The impact of adoption lasts a lifetime for all members of the adoption triad. Awareness of these issues and their impacts on each individual is critical to addressing challenges and strengthening relationships. Take a closer look at these issues and how you can respond to them.
Parenting Strategies- November 11th from 6:00-7:00 p.m.
In this interactive workshop, the framework of the Seven Core Issues will be used to explore specific actions, activities, and strategies to help strengthen families and promote attachment and communication. All should leave the workshop with practical skills/ideas that can be implemented as desired in the family home.
Self-Care and Mindfulness- November 18th from 6:00-7:00 p.m.
Self-Care and mindfulness are critical to successful parenting. While parenting can be challenging and rewarding, parenting children through adoption, kinship, foster or guardianship has some additional wrinkles that are also part of the process. Sometimes it is tempting to self-sacrifice or minimize self-care in service to others, and particularly for our children. This can be even more likely when our children have experienced loss, trauma, neglect or other hardships. We will explore, and practice, self-care and mindfulness activities and begin to develop a plan of action to put prioritized activities into practice.
Separation, Grief and Loss- November 25th, 6:00-7:00 p.m.
Separation, Grief and Loss are elements of every adoption story. In this workshop, you will explore how these topics are interconnected, how children may view their own adoption at different levels of sophistication as they age, and how parents can help them navigate through. An emphasis is placed on recognizing that adoption isn’t a one day event/experience, that helping your child know and own their story can be empowering and affirming…if sometimes challenging and a bit scary.
This training will be offered virtually and is open to individuals statewide.
Child Development and Trauma (Lincoln)
Trauma is an emotional response to an intense event or events that threaten or causes harm. Traumatic experiences that happen during pregnancy or early in life can have a lasting impact on a child. Traumatic experiences that occur later in life may also have a lasting impact. Understanding the effects of trauma is particularly important for parents working to provide a nurturing home for their children and to help them feel safe and loved. The workshop also explores strategies that can help support a child’s healing and improve relationships.
This training will be held in-person in Lincoln. Location information will be shared upon registration.
Adoption Information Sharing Meeting
As the first step in our Adoption Program, the Information Sharing Meeting is an opportunity for those interested in pursuing infant adoption through NCHS to get to know our agency, philosophy and processes. Participants in this session must be pre-approved to attend. The cost of attendance is $25 per couple.
Attachment in Adoption and Permanency (Omaha)
This workshop helps participants understand the importance of attachment in parenting both for the children and parents who are fostering or adopting. It covers the impact of fractured attachments/lack of attachments on children’s ability to attach and identifies strategies to develop healthy attachment bonds. This also covers developing trust and developing children’s sense of connectedness and belonging.
This training will be held in-person at our Omaha main office.
Families Forever Support Group (Lincoln)
Social and informal support networks provide parents and families the opportunity to learn from one another and maintain resiliency when experiencing a crisis. We believe adoptive and guardianship families can learn so much from each other and that there is no one better to receive support from, than those that “get it” or have walked in your shoes. We also believe families should celebrate small and big victories together and have some time to relax and visit with one another.
This group is open to current and former Families Forever participants.
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Talking About Adoption: Conversations with Your Adopted Child…
This conversational workshop will explore the opportunities and challenges in helping your adopted or foster child learn, know and claim their own story. Spanning developmental stages, the importance of eliminating secrecy and promoting a healthy understanding of the child’s whole story is explored. Strategies to use with children of different developmental ages is a central theme. Participants will also explore personal challenges around discussing difficult issues, openness in adoption, and promoting/supporting the development of identity in children.
This training will be held in-person at our Omaha main office.