Human beings are interrelational beings. Human beings come in families, tribes, and communities. It is easy for a person to feel alone in a crowd. It is easy for a person to feel he or she is the only one to have ever experienced something -- especially when it is not something the wider community seems to confront often.
In adoption (and emotional forms of adoption such as guardianship, kinship, foster care, etc.), for the birth families, the adoptive families, and for the kids, there is often this feeling of being "the only one".
The group model at CFFC provides trained clinicians -- and, as much as possible, a person in a leadership co-therapy role who has some of the same experience as the group -- to work with people as they make sense of, and normalize, their own life experience.
New Groups Coming Fall 2010--Information Coming Soon!
(click on links below for examples of our Spring 2010 groups)
Big Kids! (a group for adopted and foster kids ages 5-7)
MOSAIC: a group for adopted and foster kids ages 10-12
Not Another Teen Movie (a group for foster and adopted teens, ages 13-18)
Please note:
- Pre-registration and pre-payment are required for all groups. Registration fee is non-refundable.
- MasterCard and Visa accepted.
- Groups, dates, and times are subject to change.
- Space is limited.
- Groups are held at Center For Family Connections
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