Conference 2006 Workshop Handouts

Workshop Handouts
NYS Citizens' Coalition for Children, Inc.
17th Annual Statewide Adoption Training Conference
Adoption 2006: There's No Place like Home
May 12-13, 2006 • Albany New York

Family Finding: Lighting the Fire of Urgency - Kevin Campbell, Conference Institute, May 11, 2006
- Family Connectedness FAQ
- Six Steps for Family Finding
- Script for First Telephone Call with Relatives
- Family Finding References and Resources
The Color of Child Welfare Policy: Addressing Disproportionality - Ruth McRoy
- Presentation Overview: Definitions and Background of Racial Disparities, National Data, Approaches to Disproportionality
Separation and Loss: The Aftereffects - Sue Badeau
- Young Adults Leaving Home: Special Issues When the Young Adults are Adoptees
Mediation for Child Permanency - Frank Woods
- Mediation in NYS, Planning and Implementing a Multi -Site Pilot Project
Open Adoption Over the Long Run- Ruth McRoy
- Workshop Power Point Outline
Square Peg Teens in Round Hole Programs: Let's Stop the Insanity - Pat O'Brien
- Relational Planning for Teens in Foster Care: Preventing Homelessness Through Relationships
Inducement and Acting Out Behaviors - Tito Del Pilar
- Workshop Summary
- Inducement: An Adoption Language We Need to Understand
Children of Incarcerated Parents - Alison Coleman
- Services and Training provided by the Prison Families of New York, Inc.
- Services and Training provided by the Children of Prisoners Initiative
Special Needs Adoptions; What Have We Learned? - Ruth McRoy
- Successful Adoptive Families Research: PowerPoint Outline
Unconditional Commitment: The Only Love that Matters - Pat O'Brien
- Unconditional Commitment: The Only Love that Matters to Teens
"My Life, My Voice, My Future": Involving Youth in Family Court - Sue Badeau & Madelyn Freundlich
- Workshop Powerpoint Outline
- The Child Welfare System and Family Court: Tips for Foster Parents
- Preparing Youth for Court
- Court Seating Chart
- Helpful Resources
"I'm at My Wit's End" - Holly van Gulden
- Discipline
NYS's New Permanency Procedures - Margaret Burt

Lifebooks: Preserving Your Child's Story - Diane DiGiorgio
- Lifebook Resources
Let's All Play Nice - Maris Blechner and Barry Chaffkin
- Key Components of Teamwork
- 10 Suggestions for Successful Collaborations
Understanding Adolescence - Holly van Gulden

Adolescents

The ABCs of TPRs - Margaret Burt
- Accelerated Adoption
- Permanency Alternatives to Termination of Parental Rights
- Expedited or Accelerated Adoption Proceedings
- New Procedures for Freed Child Reviews
- The Seven Categories of "Hard to Place" Adoption Subsidies
- Mandatory Filings of TPRs
- Grounds for Termination of Parental Rights
When Your Child Has Significant Mental Health Issues - Lisa Trudeau and Suzanne d'Aversa
- Twenty Things Parents Wish Providers Knew and Would Remember
Sharing the Spotlight: Non-Adopted White Siblings in Transracial Families - John Raible
- Summary of Doctoral Dissertation Research Study
Retaining Prospective Adoptive and Foster Parents - Judith Ashton
- NYSCCC's AdoptUsKids Recruitment Response Team
- Agency Employee Adoption Policy Survey - Preliminary Findings
- AdoptUsKids Inquiries: Upstate NY Intake Data as of 5/10/06
- Identified Barriers to Adoption in Upstate New York
- Agency Customer Service Self-Test
Sharing the Spotlight: Non-Adopted White Siblings in Transracial Families
- Sharing the Spotlight, Summary of Unpublished Dissertation Research
Learning The Dance of Attachment - Holly van Gulden
- New Responses to Old Behaviors
- The Stable Child
Conditional Surrenders - Margaret Burt
- New Law on Conditional Surrenders
- NYS Law on Surrender of Foster Children
- Sample Surrender Terms to Place in Addendum Form
- Issues to Consider in Conditional Surrenders
- Advice for Foster Parent When Birth Parents Willing to Consider Surrender

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