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Workshop Handouts
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
  • Identity
  • Self-Esteem
    
    
• Trends in Termination of Parental Rights & Suspended Judgments - Margaret Burt, Esq.
  • Mandatory Filing of Termination of Parental Rights
  • Unwed Fathers and Foster Care Children
  • Dilligent Efforts for Missing and Incarcerated Parents
  • Permanency Alternatives to Termination of Parental Rights
  • Tips for Documenting Diligent Efforts
  • Top Ten Time Bombs in Your Termination Case
  • NYS TPR Cases on Non-Admitting Adults
  • Mental Illness Terminations
  • Recent Cases on Relative Interventions in Termination of Parental Rights
  • NYS Law on Suspended Judgements
  • Case exercise on Suspended Judgments on TPRs
  • The Dousing of Flicker of Interest in Abandonment TPR's ( Appeal Decisions)
  • Expedited or Accelerated Adoption Proceedings
  • Accelerated Adoption Issues to Consider
  • The Seven Categories of Hard to Place Adoption Subsidies
  • ASFA Excellence
    
    
• LifeBooks from Day 1 - Beth O'Malley, Adoption Works.
  • Link to Adoption Lifebooks Website
    
    
• What Really Makes a Good Adoptive Parent? - Ken Watson
  • Workshop Handout
    
    
• Using TV to Get Your Message Across - Pat O'Brien & Chester Jackson, You Gotta Believe.
  • Workshop Handout
    
    
• Permanency Hearings for Foster Children - Margaret Burt
  • Advice For Foster Parents in a Post-ASFA World
  • The Rights of Foster Parents
  • Permanency Hearings under ASFA
  • Time Lines for Foster Children
  • The Matter of Alexzander "B" - Appellate Division Decision
    
    
• Living with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) - Dianne O'Connor, NYS Foster & Adoptive Parents Assoc.
  • FASD Information Resources
  • NYS FAS Service Resources
  • FAS Statistics
    
    
• Follow the Money - Madelyn Freundlich, Children's Rights, Inc.
  • Workshop Outline
  • Link to NACAC New York State subsidy profile
  • Case Study
    
    
• Post Adoption Services: No Longer an Option - Ken Watson
  • Workshop Handout
    
    
• Conditional Surrenders: The Pros and Cons - Margaret Burt
  • Surrender Suggestions For DSS
  • Issues To Consider
  • Conditional Surrender of Foster Children: Statutes and Case Law
  • Sample Surrender Agreement
  • Sample Visitation Agreement Attachment for Conditional Surrenders
    
    
• Implementing ASFA: How Are We Doing? - Carolyn Baker, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services;
  Larry Brown, NYS Office of Children & Family Services
  • The Final Report of the Child and Family Services Review of New York State
  • Outcome Areas to be Addressed in Child & Family Services Review Program Improvement Plan
  • New York State Program Improvement Plan: Strategies to Achieve Child Welfare Outcomes
  • Link to DHHS Children's Bureau Overview of of CFSR process and Available State Reports
    
    
• Surviving the Trauma - Dee Paddock
  • What is the Neurological Relationship between Trauma and Attachment?
  • Understanding the Trauma Drama
  • Survial Strategies for Parents
    
    
• When Children Had Names Not Labels - Barbara Tremitiere, One Another Adoption Program
  • ADHD Notes
    
    
• Lifetime Resources for Adopted Children with Special Needs - Melissa Hall, Arise Child & Family Service, Inc.
  • Creating Circles of Support for Children with Disabilities in Foster Care and Adoption
    
    
• Anxiously Awaiting Attachment - Dee Paddock
  • Building Healthy Adoptive Families
  • Link to Articles on Families with a Difference Website
    
    
• Supporting Family Reunification through Successful Visits - Jere Wrightsman, Center for Development of Human Services
  • Visits Help Families to Reunite in 4 Ways
  • Identifying Feelings and Needs in Visits
  • The Bridges of Alliance
  • Things Foster Parents Can Say or Do to Support Successful Visits
    
    
• Preparing Children to Talk about Their Adoption - Maris Blechner, Family Focus Adoption Services
  • Why Do Children Need to Know the Facts?
  • The Truth and Nothing but the Truth: Principles in Talking with Children
  • "Little Things"
    
    
• Parenting Outside the Comfort Zone - Dee Paddock
  • Workshop Handout
  • Survival Strategies for Parents
    
    
• It Hurts When They Leave: Stages of Foster Parent Grief - Carol Wheat, Pederson-Krag Center
  • Workshop Handout
    
    
• The Art and Science of the Voluntary Surrender - Maris Blechner, Family Focus Adoption Services 
  • Surrendering Birth-Parent's Confirmation of Services
  • Birth Mother Future Contact Statement
    

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