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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
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 YorkWorking 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
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 FamiliesClick 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.
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