Friday, May 9, 2008
Workshop Period 1 • 10:30-12:00 Noon
1. Can We Fix This Child?
A survival tool kit to help parents and professionals understand the impact of trauma on child development and deal effectively with difficult behaviors.Dee Paddock
2. Parenting Children with Developmental Disabilities: My Story
The challenges, successes, hurdles, and fears families of children with developmental disabilities must address throughout childhood and into adulthood. Janice Fitzgerald, Parent to Parent of NYS
3. Straight Talk for Kids
How to help children hear and understand difficult information about their past and their birth families by using developmentally appropriate "tough truth.”Maris Blechner, Family Focus Adoption Services
4. Restoration of Parental Rights after TPR
For some foster care youth, permanency may mean returning to birth parents after termination of parental rights. When does it make sense to restore parental rights? Legal issues and case examples considered. Barry Chaffkin, CT Wocat
5. Kinship Care in NYS: What We Know and Where We Want to Go
A profile of kinship families throughout the state and the challenges they face. Recommendations for model practices and solutions to identified challenges. Gerard Wallace, NYS Kinship Navigator
Friday, May 9, 2008
Workshop Period 2 • 1:45-3:15 p.m.
6. Choosing a Good Therapist—Or Becoming One
What essential things do adopted or foster children and their families need in a good therapist? How to know when therapy is needed. Dee Paddock
7. Recruitment and Retention: Two Sides of the Same Coin – Part I
Effective recruitment methods and the care and feeding of prospective adoptive parents. Zena Oglesby, Institute for Black Parenting
8. Emerging Adulthood: Adolescent Development and Service Needs
How brain development affects adolescent behaviors and readiness for "independent" living. A compelling argument for services and supports for foster care youth even after age 21. Rosemary Avery, Cornell University |
9. Empowered Transition: Moving Children into Successful Adoption
The child and prospective family each have their own advocates and are equal participants in this transition process. Techniques, underlying beliefs, and practical advice for making it work! Jack Brennan, Joanne Ferrante, Lisa Binder, Family Focus Adoption Services
10. Blogs and Wikis and Lists: Putting Internet Tools to Work for You
How to use new internet tools for easier, more efficient, and more effective communication. Diane Hillmann; Susan Collins, NYS Citizens’ Coalition for Children, Inc.
Friday, May 10, 2008
Workshop Period 3 • 3:35-5:05 p.m.
11. Parenting Adopted Teens into Their Adult Years
How does parenting change as children become adolescents? What are the challenges? Techniques to support and guide young adults through challenging times. Dee Paddock
12. Recruitment and Retention: Two Sides of the Same Coin – Part II
Effective recruitment methods and the care and feeding of prospective adoptive parents. Zena Oglesby, Institute for Black Parenting
13. Loss and Learning: The Impact of Loss in the Classroom
How children’s previous losses affect their ability to be successful in school, and what they need to succeed. Strategies for educating the educators. Joan Clark
14. Xtreme Adoption: Adopting Youth Over Age 18
No matter how old they are, every youth in foster care needs a permanent family. Parents and the youth over 18 they adopted tell their stories. Panel. Chester Jackson, You Gotta Believe!, Moderator
15. Truth Is Better Than Fiction: Openness in Adoption
Open adoptions, opening a closed adoption, increased openness in adoption… New ways of thinking that benefit kids—and families. Sue Badeau, Philadelphia Children’s Commission
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