Center For Family Connections

*Listen to Dr. Pavao talking about Creating Attachment on the August 10th "Creating A Family" Radio Show!*

Sadly, after 17 years, CFFC is closing.

The funding issues--particularly a devastating reduction in funding from our State--made it impossible to go on.

We are closing as of March 1, 2012, but you can still continue to contact Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao if you need any services, referrals (including to our well-trainined former staff), resources, etc. Dr. Pavao is now in private practice in Cambridge, MA, still working under her 30-year-old Pre/Post Adoption Consulting and Training (PACT) program. She is also developing a demonstration project in post adoption services for Riverside Community Care (riversidecc.org) called After Adoption Consulting and Training. Should you need to reach Dr. Pavao for any reason, please email, call, or write to:

Pavao Consulting and Coaching (PCC)

220 Concord Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

(617)547-0909

kinnect@gmail.com

Please be in touch and stay tuned to our newsletters, and visit joycemaguirepavao.com for information about new ventures!

At a fundamental level, our mission at Center For Family Connections (CFFC) is to help children feel safe, seen, and valued, and to adjust to the challenges of being, or having been, moved from one family to another. Many of the children we serve have spent years in countless foster homes, orphanages, residential centers, or hospitals. The agency's experienced clinicians understand the interactions and needs of complex blended families, and provide the skills, tools, and talent required to build stronger and healthier family units.

Center For Family Connections is an educational and clinical resource center that specializes in the developmental, structural, and systemic issues related to adoption, foster care, kinship, guardianship, as well as the people with whom they are connected, by offering training, education, advocacy, and clinical treatment.

We believe that the need to honor connections is an essential part of family life.

CFFC is the only free-standing resource committed to serving families and children whose whole lives are touched by adoption, foster care, divorce, and other complex family issues. As adoptions increase and our nation restructures the welfare system, there is an increasing need to provide education, training, and clinical resources to families and professionals.