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- 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.