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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?
Click here for 2010 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
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 9am-12pm on each day.
Please note that ALL trainings are for parents (birth, foster,
and adoptive), adopted adults, professionals, and any other interested
adults.
Wednesday September 29,
2010
9:00am-12:00pm
Trauma and Healing in Adoption and Complex Blended Families
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
9:00am - 12:00pm
Couples Therapy in Adoption and Complex Blended Families
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
9:00am - 12:00pm
Attachment and Pre and Post Adoption Issues for Birth and Adoptive Families
January (TBD) 2011
9:00am - 12:00pm
Child-Centered and Sensitive Treatment in Adoption
February (TBD) 2011
9:00am - 12:00pm
Clinical Practice with Diverse Children, Youth and Families in Adoption
March (TBD) 2011
9:00am - 12:00pm
Search and Reunion Issues for Adoption Triad Members
Please note:
- Pre-registration and pre-payment are required.
- Each training costs $55/person.
- SW, LMFT, and possibly LMHC CEUs are available for an additional
$35.
- Scholarships are available, but do not apply to CEUs.
- Presenters are subject to change.
- Trainings are directed and often facilitated by Dr. Joyce Maguire
Pavao.
- Trainings are held in Cambridge, MA. All registrants will be
informed of location or any venue changes.
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
Adoption Connections
Training Institute: OneWorld Neighborhood
**Save the Date!!! The 5th International Conference on Post Adoption Services will be held in February, 2011**
5th International Conference on Post Adoption
Services
February, 2011
Hotel Marlowe
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Click
here for the 2011 Call for Proposals Information
Click here for the 2011 Call for Proposals Forms
The extended deadline for submissions is Friday, July 16th. Send all proposals to Pamela D'Amato at pamelad@kinnect.org.
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 the 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.
The goal of 2007 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 1009 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 famiies by adoption and guardianship.
The conference
went extremely well! Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao, founder and CEO of CFFC,
said, "Of the three 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 exitement!" The conference overall was rated
very highly by the attendees, with 92% of those who filled out the
Future Particpation Evaluation saying they would be interested in
attending the next OneWorld Neighborhood Conference in 2009. "Lots
of great info, well-researched, great variety of topics," said
one particpant. 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: Massachusetts Department of Children and Families
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.
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