TAWC at Center For Family Connections

TAWC is promoting wellness and offering consultation around normal issues that adoptive and other complex families face.

Founded by Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao,TAWC focuses on the normative issues faced by adoptive families and families formed by reproductive technologies, kinship, step parenting, and other complex situations.

TAWC provides both face-to-face consultation and phone consultation for birth families, adoptive families, adult adoptive persons, and others who are connected to the world of adoption, legally or emotionally. TAWC also does its well known '50 thousand mile check ups,' created by Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao in 1978, and provides assessments and recommendations for families around school related matters and other normative developmental stages that are faced by families created by adoption.

Additionally, TAWC offers baby massage classes for new parents, meditation/yoga practices, stress reduction techniques for children and parents, plus much more. All services are available for individuals and couples who are thinking of adoption.

UPCOMING TAWC ABOUTS:

TAWC: Birth Mother's Tea
Monday, May 12, 6pm to 8pm; Free of charge
Mother's Day can be a difficult holiday for those in the adoption triad. This is an evening for birth mothers to gather, support, and share about personal experiences. It is CFFC's way of acknowledging birth mothers.
Pre-registration required by Wednesday May 7th (space is limited)

TAWC Includes

Play with Reality
Be a writer! Be a producer! Tell people what they need to know about you and others like you! Be an actor!

Play with Reality year-long performance group for teens and young adults in adoption, foster care, and other complex blended families. The final product is a PLAY that will answer this important question for teens and young adults: What do you want people to understand about you that they just don't get?

The Play with Reality team will learn about presenting and speaking, and will have expert training in performing arts, script writing, production, and technical aspects of theatre.

The team will meet weekly in a safe environment with staff from CFFC and three visiting actors/directors/scriptwriters.

The final play will go on tour, locally at schools, and possibly nationally and internationally at conferences. After the play, the audience will be able to ask questions-to the character and then to the actor about creating the character and then about the actor him/herself.

TAWC Abouts
Morning, afternoon, or evening gatherings to discuss issues of birth parenting, adoptive parenting, growing up adopted, transracial adoption, and many other topics of concern to the families we serve. Tawc Abouts also includes "Adoption at the Movies" where we watch, review, and discuss movies that apply to our lives and the lives of our loved ones.

50 Thousand Mile Check Ups
We keep our cars running smoothly by having regular checkups. Why not keep your family running smoothly by a check in at various intervals? Call for your '50' soon.

Taking Care of You and Your Family
Seminars and classes focusing on:

Infant massage
Financial planning for new and expanding families
Childbirth preparation for birth and adoptive parents-to-be
Therapeutic and communication building games for children and families
Yoga for stress management
Art therapy for birthparents, adopted adults, adoptive parents, and foster parents
Time management skills for busy people
Financial training of adolescents who are in adoption and foster care
Pre-planning for college