|











|
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.
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
half-day training for parents and professionals with a variety of
different topics.
Please note that ALL trainings are for parents (birth, foster,
and adoptive), adopted adults, professionals, and any other interested
adults.
Wednesday September 24,
2008
9:00am-12:00pm
Talking to Children about Difficult Information
In this training, we will discuss how to reframe the truth,
while helping children to manage this difficult story of their lives.
For many children adopted both internationally and through our child
welfare system, there is a history of some abuse or neglect that may have
lead to their current circumstances. To understand how to talk about these
hard subjects and even to talk about what adoption is to children who were
adopted as infants, is more difficult than one would assume. This is very
important for workers, foster parents and adoptive parents.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
9:00am - 12:00pm
Lifebooks vs. Whole Life Books: Integrating the past and present
to make a whole life for children in adoption
This training will briefly describe each method of capturing a child's story,
when each method or model is best used, and what should be included in each of
these. This is a hands on training where workers and parents should come with
scanned copies of pictures of ALL of the child's families past and present if
possible.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
9:00am - 12:00pm
Holiday Trauma Triggers The holidays trigger many emotions and events for both children who have
experienced trauma, and their families. In this training, we will discuss common triggers
that occur during the holiday season, how to prepare for these and how to help children and
families cope.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 2008
9:00am - 12:00pm
Understanding Trauma and its
Role in Attachment Disorders
This is a workshop to help workers and parents to understand why children have
the behaviors that they do and what kinds of treatments might be best considered.
This is necessary for anyone working or living with children who have suffered
trauma.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
9:00am - 12:00pm
Helping Parents (birth,
adoptive, foster, guardian and kin) to add to their repertoire of parenting
strategies and skills. Jeopardy style!!
In a fun, Jeopardy style training, we will focus on how to acknowledge your
style as a parent, and how to learn what you may need to supplement it. It
is designed both for parents raising children in adoption and foster care, and
for professionals who place children with parents.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
9:00am - 12:00pm
Sibling Connections: Thinking about best practice and techniques
for keeping siblings connected, while keeping them safe and sound
The sibling bond is often severed with adoption and foster care.
The Sibling Kinnections program has worked to change the possibilities
for real relationships for those children and their families who
have siblings growing up in households other than their own. We
will discuss the challenges and benefits of maintaining sibling
connections between children being raised apart, and talk about
what we have learned through the Sibling Kinnections program.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
9:00am - 12:00pm
Open Adoption: How to prepare for and how to enhance
Open Adoptions
How are open adoption agreements made? What is the best way to maintain them?
This training will help answer these questions and many more. We will cover
preparing for open adoption agreements, how these agreements are made, how to
continue to best maintain good healthy contact, and what is in the best interest
of children.
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...
Applications
for 2007-2008 program are being accepted now!
Click
here for a flyer. Or, for further information and application,
please visit www.nrcfcppp.org/adoptiontherapy
or contact Yvette Heyward at (212) 452-7053 or YHeyward@HunterCuny.edu
Adoption Connections
Training Institute: OneWorld Neighborhood
4th International Conference on Post Adoption
Services
February 23-25, 2009 Hotel Marlowe
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Call for Proposals is Available-- Extended
Deadline September 10, 2008! Please contact
KatherineW@kinnect.org for further details! OR to be added to the mailing list.
Click
here for the Call for Proposals
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.
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.'"
Presented By: Center For
Family Connections
In Collaboration With: The National Resource Center For Family-Centered
Practice and Permanency Planning;
and Massachusetts Department of Children and Families
Click
here for the 2007 brochure.
Click
here for the full 2007 schedule.
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.
Adoption Resource
Center (ARC) Summer Intensives: General Information & History
July 6th- 9th, 2008 Provincetown Theater -- Provincetown, MA
The Narrative Essence of
Adoption & Complex Blended Families
Every myth, bible story and fairy tale has a bit of an adoption theme;
many books and movies do as well! This year's ARC Summer Intensives will
look at the aspects of adoption that build a story and will use narrative
therapy, digital stories, and movies to discuss the many emotional and
psychological elements that can make adoption a challenge and a joy for
all involved.
Click Here for the ARC 2008 Brochure
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.
|