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13th Annual Statewide Adoption
Training Conference
Adoption 2002: Linking Promises to Possibilities
May 9-11, 2002 Albany New York
- Identity
and Self-Esteem: Lifetime Implications In Adoption - Ken
Watson
- Trends in
Termination of Parental Rights & Suspended Judgments -
Margaret Burt, Esq.
- LifeBooks
from Day 1 - Beth O'Malley, Adoption Works.
- What
Really Makes a Good Adoptive Parent? - Ken Watson
- Using TV to
Get Your Message Across - Pat O'Brien & Chester Jackson, You
Gotta Believe.
- Permanency
Hearings for Foster Children - Margaret Burt
- Living
with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) - Dianne O'Connor, NYS
Foster & Adoptive Parents Assoc.
- Follow
the Money - Madelyn Freundlich, Children's Rights, Inc.
- Post
Adoption Services: No Longer an Option - Ken Watson
- Conditional
Surrenders: The Pros and Cons - Margaret Burt
- Implementing
ASFA: How Are We Doing? - Carolyn Baker, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services;
Larry Brown, NYS Office of Children & Family
Services
- Surviving
the Trauma - Dee Paddock
- When
Children Had Names Not Labels - Barbara Tremitiere, One Another
Adoption Program
- Lifetime
Resources for Adopted Children with Special Needs - Melissa Hall,
Arise Child & Family Service, Inc.
- Anxiously
Awaiting Attachment - Dee Paddock
- Supporting
Family Reunification through Successful Visits - Jere Wrightsman,
Center for Development of Human Services
- Preparing
Children to Talk about Their Adoption - Maris Blechner, Family
Focus Adoption Services
- Parenting
Outside the Comfort Zone - Dee Paddock
- It Hurts
When They Leave: Stages of Foster Parent Grief - Carol Wheat,
Pederson-Krag Center
- The Art
and Science of the Voluntary Surrender - Maris Blechner, Family
Focus Adoption
Services
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