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Training and Technical Assistance

CFFC offers a variety of trainings to parents, agencies, schools, and professionals, including mental health workers, social workers, judges, and attorneys. CFFC also designs specific training programs at the request of agencies, schools, or any group or collaboration of professionals and/or parents. Our training programs allow us to share knowledge about best practice among our colleagues, so that we can better understand and apply what will be most successful for adopted children and their families.

Want to collaborate on these conferences with us?

Coming Soon! - Click here for 2011 Collaboration Opporunities for you and your organization!

FaCT (Family Connections Training) Institute Series
Post-graduate Certificate Program in Adoption Therapy
Adoption Connections Training Institute: OneWorld Network (ACTION)
Annual ARC Summer Intensives

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The FaCT (Family Connections Training) Institute Series

A monthly training for parents and professionals with a variety of different topics. This year the FaCT training is offered to both parents and professionals. People may attend individual sessions for $55 ($35 extra if you want CEU's). Individual sessions run from 9-11:30am on each day.

Please note that ALL trainings are for parents (birth, foster, and adoptive), adopted adults, professionals, and any other interested adults.

 

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Post-Graduate Certificate Program in Adoption Therapy 
at the Hunter College School of Social Work
City University of New York

Working to promote adoption from public foster care?
Working to increase your competency in the area of adoption practice?
If so, this course may be for you...

Unfortunately this was suspended in FY2010 due to loss of funding.

For further information, please visit www.nrcfcppp.org/adoptiontherapy or contact Yvette Heyward at (212) 452-7053 or YHeyward@HunterCuny.edu

 

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Adoption Connections Training Institute: OneWorld Neighborhood

Adoption Connections Training Institute:

OneWorld Neighborhood (ACTION)

The 5th International Conference on Post-Adoption Services

July 11-12, 2011

Provincetown Inn

Provincetown, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Click here for the 2011 Call for Proposals Information - Currently Closed

Click here for the 2011 Call for Proposals Forms - Currently Closed

ACTION proposes an international collaboration among many grass roots organizations, individuals, and agencies. The purpose of ACTION is not to debate what is right and wrong with the adoption process, but to work together to provide the best possible training, treatment, services, and psycho-educational tools for families and children, and for professionals who work with them worldwide. ACTION has begun to establish a network that will exchange ideas, knowledge, models, and resources to provide the best possible services for all members of the extended "Family of Adoption."

Past ACTION info:

ACTION started in 2003 and was held in Dublin, Ireland in February of 2003 and 2005. It was then brought home to Cambridge in 2007 and 2009.

The goal of 2009 ACTION conference was to have a conversation about what we are doing well, what we can share, what we can do better for the families, and most of all, the children in adoption. Through this conference, CFFC is creating a distance-learning institute for dissemination and best practices worldwide. In 2009, our goal was to think about a seamless continuum for children in care through to their return to birthfamily, kinship care, or into their permanent families by adoption and guardianship.

The conference went extremely well! Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao, Founder and CEO of CFFC, said, "Of the four conferences we have run to celebrate and expand the international Community of Adoption and the Post Adoption Services it provides, this February's ACTION conference ranks highest in evaluation and excitement!" The conference overall was rated very highly by attendees, with 92% of those who filled out the Future Participation Evaluation saying they would be interested in attending the next OneWorld Neighborhood Conference in 2011. "Lots of great info, well-researched, great variety of topics," said one participant. Attendees were particularly moved by Ann Fessler's Presentation on her book, The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade. One attendee said, "Ann's presentation was very powerful...[It] gave you such a sense of how people experience adoption." Denise Pappas, a long time friend, supporter, and advisory board member of CFFC summed it up best saying, "Concerning this conference I can only paraphrase literature's most famous orphan, Oliver Twist, 'More, please. I would like more.'"

ACTION isn't just a conference; it's an international network. Join us to build a worldwide conversation about the extended Family of Adoption and to create understanding and change through dialogue. For more information or to join this network, email us at cffc@kinnect.org.

Presented By: Center For Family Connections

In Collaboration With: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute

 

 

For more information about 2011's Meeting of the Minds combined ACTION International Conference and ARC Summer Intensives,

including tentative schedule and advertising opportunities, please click here.

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Adoption Resource Center (ARC) Summer Intensives: General Information & History

July 10, 13-14, 2011

Provincetown Inn

Provincetown, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

***Updated 2011 Brochure to be Available Soon***

Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao is the Founder and CEO of both Adoption Resource Center (ARC) and Center For Family Connections (CFFC).

ARC was founded in 1973. The ARC Summer Intensives, which began in 1985 (26th Anniversary), are based on Dr. Pavao's Normative Crises in the Development of the Adoptive Family framework, her years of clinical experience, and her consulting and training expertise. The Intensives utilize family systems theory, which is the basis of Dr. Pavao's work. Systemic thinking is woven throughout the design of the Intensives.

Professionals, and other people who live in the world of adoption, have come to the ARC Summer Intensives from England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, France, Italy, Korea, Spain, Denmark, Poland, and approximately 40 of the United States. A rich exchange of best practice ideas and theories happens each year at the Intensives.

            
Please contact Ginger Piaseczny GingerP@kinnect.org or call 617-547-0909 for further information.
              

General Information and History

Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao is the Founder and CEO of both Adoption Resource Center (ARC) and Center For Family Connections (CFFC).

ARC was founded in 1973. The ARC Summer Intensives, which began in 1985 (23rd Anniversary), are based on Dr. Pavao's Normative Crises in the Development of the Adoptive Family framework, her years of clinical experience, and her consulting and training expertise. The Intensives utilize family systems theory, which is the basis of Dr. Pavao's work. Systemic thinking is woven throughout the design of the Intensives.

Professionals, and other people who live in the world of adoption, have come to the ARC Summer Intensives from England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, France, Italy, Korea, Spain, Denmark, Poland, and approximately 40 of the United States. A rich exchange of best practice ideas and theories happens each year at the Intensives.

 

Center For Family Connections - 350 Cambridge Street - Cambridge, MA 02141 - Tel: 617-547-0909 / (800) KINNECT - Fax: 617-497-5952 - E-mail: cffc@kinnect.org