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Serving the Adoption, Foster Care, and Safe Families for Children Communities
Showing posts with label parenting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label parenting. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Thursday, February 15, 2018
When Church is a Challenge for Kids
When life is a struggle, Believers want and NEED church. We desire fellowship with others, corporate worship, and being led through Scripture for a nugget of God’s peace that passes all understanding. Unfortunately for many foster and adoptive parents, the idea of going to church may also bring up feelings of anxiety.
- Should I try to have my child attend Sunday School or will the separation be too much for them?
- Will people think that my kids are “out of control” because they struggle to self-regulate?
- Is it worth trying to actually get my kids to church?
- Will I be called out of service repeatedly if my child experiences a meltdown?
- Should I take my child even though he might be so overstimulated that it will take the whole rest of the day to help him regulate?
- Read more about foster/adoptive families’ experiences, here's a great place to start.
At Project 1.27, part of our mission is to help equip churches to support foster and adoptive families. As you think about your church, or the church your foster/adoptive family attends, consider the church culture and how it responds to children from hard places and the parents who care for them. Does the church leadership prioritize foster and adoptive ministries? Do the children’s programs seek to accommodate a child from hard places through extra training and understanding? Are there opportunities to engage the church congregation to think more about serving kids in foster care or those who have been adopted?
How can I help my church become more foster and adoptive friendly?
- Investigate your church culture through asking foster/adoptive families about their experience in church.
- Explore additional resources or ministries your church could offer to support foster/adoptive families.
- Schedule a time to talk with someone in leadership at your church about what you have learned and the need that exists at your church.
- Contact Project 1.27’s new Family Care Team Manager, Marilyn Robinson (mrobinson@project127.com), if your church leadership is interested in developing more strategic ways to support foster and adoptive families.
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Empowered to Connect Conference!
This year, we have the awesome opportunity to attend the
Empowered To Connect Conference LIVE in the Chicago area!
Geared toward foster & adoptive families, and applicable for potential adoptive or foster parents, and professionals or ministry leaders serving children.
Learn an evidence-based, trauma-informed approach from global leaders on caring for children from "hard places". Learn how to promote healing, foster connection, and correct your children with methods that work.
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- Experience practical teaching in a safe and supportive community!
- Each adoptive and foster parent will receive a certificate of attendance that can be turned into their agency & possibly counted towards training credits.
This conference, presented by Show Hope in partnership with the Karyn Purvis
Institute of Child Development at TCU and Empowered To Connect, is a
two-day event that equips families, churches, and professionals to
better serve children impacted by adoption and foster care.
We
strongly recommend attending with your spouse! It's beneficial for you
to be on the same page. We believe this conference is worth taking a day
off work if you need to. What you will learn is invaluable!
Thursday, January 4, 2018
Tuesday, January 2, 2018
ECT Parent to Parent Training in TBRI
Parent to Parent Training in TBRI®
for Adoptive / Foster/SAFE families
for Adoptive / Foster/SAFE families
Learn how to effectively and consistently employ a balanced parenting approach that allows you to provide compassionate discipline that connects with your child’s heart
and corrects inappropriate behaviors.
COMING TO
LIVING HOPE CHURCH, Elk Grove Village
(SCHAUMBURG/ WOODFIELD AREA)
MONDAY EVENINGS
7pm- 9pm
Jan 15, 22, 29
Feb 5, 12, 19, 26
Mar 5, 12
LIVING HOPE CHURCH, Elk Grove Village
(SCHAUMBURG/ WOODFIELD AREA)
MONDAY EVENINGS
7pm- 9pm
Jan 15, 22, 29
Feb 5, 12, 19, 26
Mar 5, 12
ETC Parent training is offered by Steve and Cheryl Pickett for families
in the Chicagoland area. For more information about the training visit http://www.empoweredtoconnect.org/training or contact trainers at etc@scpickett.com. List of required resource books and materials available upon request. Childcare not provided.
Register at etc@scpickett.com.
Cost: $25 (additional resource material will be required for purchase or borrow)
Cost: $25 (additional resource material will be required for purchase or borrow)
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Podcast: How to Handle Overstimulation During the Holidays
The holiday season is full of fun and exciting sights, sounds, smells, treats, and activities. Mike and Kristin have asked their good friend, Jenn Hook, to join them as they discuss some ways parents can handle over-stimulation with their kids during the holiday season. Listen in now for Part 2 of 4 in our “Holiday Survival Tips and Tricks Series.”
For more information and resources, visit the Confessions of an Adoptive Parent web site.
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Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Empowered to Connect Conference!
Bringing Hope and Healing to Families
Show Hope is partnering with Empowered to Connect to present the Empowered to Connect Conference on April 13-14, 2018, in the Chicagoland area. Come experience practical teaching in a safe and supportive community as we work to equip families, churches, and professionals to better serve children impacted by adoption and foster care.There will be several simulcast locations in the Chicagoland area. Each day's sessions will run from 9am-5pm (check-in opens at 8am), with a one hour offsite lunch.
The Empowered to Connect Conference features Trust-Based Relational InterventionⓇ methods developed by Dr. Karyn Purvis and Dr. David Cross from the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development to help bring attachment and connection in families. The content is ideal for adoptive and foster parents, those considering adoption or foster care, and those who are serving and supporting others, including social workers, agency professionals, church staff and ministry leaders, counselors and therapists, childcare providers, and extended family members.
Find more information about the conference here >
For inquiries regarding the Empowered to Connect Conference, please contact 615-550-5600 ext. 116. If seating is available, tickets may be purchased at the door.
CHILDCARE: Please note that childcare will NOT be provided at this event. Please make arrangements off-site for childcare.
CONTINUING EDUCATION: This program has previously been approved by the National Association of Social Workers and the National Board for Certified Counselors for 11 continuing education contact hours. Approval for the 2018 event is pending.
Have questions about Empowered to Connect Conference 2018- Chicago Metro?
Contact Show Hope
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Parenting in Space Conference!
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Chicago Area Families for Adoption is a proud sponsor of the
2017 Parenting in SPACE conference!
April 28th - 30th, 2017
Hamburger University, Oak Brook, IL
Parenting in SPACE is a conference, some would call an experience, that offers hope to the moms, dads, and caregivers
of children and youth who have experienced trauma in early childhood by
providing them with the opportunity to connect, learn, and laugh.
Many of the parents and caregivers who attend Parenting in SPACE had
children who joined their families through adoption. Some by birth.
Most of their children have very challenging behaviors and great
challenges managing their emotions.
Parenting in SPACE provides parents and caregivers many opportunities to learn the theory, and especially the practice, of therapeutic parenting through
SPACE, a parenting model that uses the power of human connection to
help children achieve greater self-regulation, stronger relationships
and deeper self-worth.
Parenting in SPACE offers
workshops, support groups, face-to-face time with mental health
professionals, and a community of other parents and caregivers - all of
whom truly understand the experience of parenting children who have experienced trauma and attachment, and who have behavioral and emotional challenges .
Registration ends this Sunday so don't delay in checking out this great event!
Monday, April 3, 2017
Attachement, Behavior, and What to Do About It
Working with Control Sensitive Youth- Reviewing with Focus
Thursday, April 20th
6:30 – 8:30 pm
Allendale Campus at Bradley Counseling Center,
Proops Professional Development Center, 420 Grand Ave, Lake Villa.
Daniel
Goldberg, Psy.D. and Andie Becker, M.A., Allendale Association
Residential Therapists and Trainers, will present a focused review of
how the attachment style of the children in our care relates to their
behaviors, particularly around issues of control and decision-making.
Gain understanding of the youth’s behaviors, what motivates the
connection to peers and adults, and how to aid in changing behaviors.
Register for the in-services by calling Tammy Goodwin or Keri Beyer 847.356.3322
or by emailing both tgoodwin@allendale4kids.org and kbeyer@allendale4kids.org
Foster Parent Networking and Dinner 6:00 p.m.
Foster parents are invited to connect, share ideas, and support each other over dinner before
every training program in the Proops Development Center. Dinner is provided for all who RSVP
at least 48 hours before the in-service. Dinner is served in the Proops Development Center 30
minutes prior to the start of the in-service.
Child care is offered to foster homes licensed with Allendale Association who provide at least
48 hours notice.
Monday, March 6, 2017
Foster Parent Classes at Allendale
Thursday, March 16th 6:30 – 8:30 pm Basics of Abuse, Neglect and Dependency Proceedings in the Juvenile Justice System Kathy Gordon, J.D., Principal Assistant Public Defender of Lake County, will explain the major procedural aspects of child abuse, neglect and dependency hearings in the Juvenile Court System and address questions related to supporting the “best interests” of youth in care. Ms. Gordon began working as Guardian Ad Litem in Lake County via the Public Defender’s Guardian ad Litem Division in 2007 and has spent more than 18 years working for thousands of Illinois children in the juvenile abuse, neglect and dependent system. She became a certified mediator in 1996 and has volunteered for the Center for Conflict Resolution in Chicago for the last 20 years.
Thursday, April 20th 6:30 – 8:30 pm Working with Control Sensitive Youth - Reviewing with Focus Daniel Goldberg, Psy.D. and Andie Becker, M.A., Allendale Association Residential Therapists and Trainers, will present a focused review of how the attachment style of the children in our care relates to their behaviors, particularly around issues of control and decision-making. Gain understanding of the youth’s behaviors, what motivates the connection to peers and adults, and how to aid in changing behaviors.
Bradley Counseling Center, 420 Grand Ave, Lake Villa
RSVP by email or call 847-356-3322Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
2017 Conference – Parenting Through Adoption!
Chicago Area Families for Adoption (CAFFA)
presents....
Parenting Through Adoption 2017
Wheaton College* – Wheaton, IL
Saturday, March 4, 2017
CAFFA is pleased to announce that
registration is now open for our 23rd full day Parenting Through
Adoption Conference! We have an exciting lineup of Speakers, Exhibitors,
and Sponsors.
Registration is now live! Register today at the Conference Registration Page!
Our day will also feature numerous workshops for
pre-adoptive, foster, waiting, and experienced parents, as well as for
Adoption Professionals. As always, we will offer shopping from Fair
Trade vendors and an Exhibitor Hall to make sure you leave with a
headful of information and an armload of resources!
Great
news! We have been approved for 6 hours of Illinois foster care license
/ training for prospective parents, and 6 CEU education hours for
adoption professionals seeking Social Worker credits.
Finally, anyone involved with adoption is welcome to attend, regardless of CAFFA membership.
The deadline for all registrations is February 19, 2017. Space is
limited and filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Fee includes
breakfast, lunch buffet, access to all conference areas, and
certificates of attendance for those requesting documentation for foster
care license renewal hours.
We hope to see you there!
For more information vist the CAFFA Conference web site.
Thursday, November 10, 2016
New Video Series for Adoptive Parents!
A 14 Video Series with Study Guide
ROOTED is Now Available!
After much anticipation and by God’s grace, we are pleased to announce that the ROOTED online video course and companion study guide is now available!
Many
families with adopted children are struggling and some are even falling
apart. These struggling families are in your church. They may be in
your extended family. Or maybe you would raise your hand and say, “we
need some help ourselves.”In our ministry to equip churches to help
orphans, Hope for Orphans has seen the growing need for parenting
resources for adoptive families. ROOTED is an answer to this need.
The
ROOTED online course and companion study guide are designed for parents
anywhere in the adoption process, whether you are considering adoption
for the first time or have had your children in your family for years.
It’s also designed to be used by church orphan ministries,
adoption/foster care agencies, and biblical counselors.
ROOTED
provides hope-filled, gospel-focused exhortations from teachers like
Paul Tripp and Voddie Baucham, as well as practical advice from experts
like the director of the Mayo Clinic’s center for holistic health, the
leader of the Play Therapy Institute at Texas State University and the
President of the Association of Biblical Counselors.
“Full
of sound biblical teaching and wisdom, along with practical tips and
counseling expertise. I highly recommend this as a guide as you seek to
nurture your kids and lead them to Jesus.”—Josh McDowell, author and speaker
“A
phenomenal, gospel-driven resource that I hope ends up in the hands of
every family that has adopted or is thinking about adoption.”—Matt Carter, Pastor of Preaching, The Austin Stone Community Church, Austin, Texas
“Honest. Authentic. Gritty. Biblical.”—John Fuller, Co-Host, Focus on the Family. Founding Board Member, CAFO
“Honest. Authentic. Gritty. Biblical.”—John Fuller, Co-Host, Focus on the Family. Founding Board Member, CAFO
To learn more or to purchase the videos and workbooks for your church, family, or organization, visit hopefororphans.org/rooted.
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