Families Forever Training Series

About the Event

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- October 8th 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- October 15th 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- October 22nd 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.

Openness in Adoption- October 29th from 6:00-7:00 p.m.

In this workshop we will be presenting information that is biased towards encouraging openness withing the context of adoption. This is done by keeping the child in mind while managing the adult relationships that are present within the adoption constellation. Openness on a continuum is explored with an emphasis on communication within the adoptive family and between all members of the adoption constellation that are supportive and loving towards the adopted person(s). More specifically activities related to structural openness (personal connections between adoptive and birth family members) and communicative openness (focused more on the level of comfort with discussion and knowledge of adoption within the adoptive family). Additional discussion explores actions that can help foster and maintain an open relationship.

All trainings will be held in-person at our Omaha main office.