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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.

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 has been partially funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and modeled after the Post-Graduate Adoption Therapy program designed by Dr. Gary Mallon and Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao, so it is being offered as a full 8-month training course to both parents and professionals. For those who are not taking the full course, people may attend individual sessions for $55 ($35 extra if you want CEU's). These individual sessions run from 8am-11am on each day, rather than the extended hours of the full course.

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

**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 2009 ACTION Schedule
Includes: General Information, Keynote and Workshop Schedule,
Registration, Cost and Guidelines, Collaboration, and Lodging Information.

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.'"

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

 

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

July 11th- 14th, 2010
Provincetown Inn -- Provincetown, MA

2010 brochure will be available soon!

Archived Information:

Click here for the Full 2009 ARC E-Brochure

Click here for the Updated Conference Schedule

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