LTA conference workshop proposals now being accepted! April 01, 2017

New Jersey’s 35th Annual “Let’s Talk Adoption”sm Conference
Saturday, April 1, 2017 at Rutgers University Busch Campus Center

Coordinated by Concerned Persons for Adoption
Co-sponsored by the New Jersey Interagency Adoption Council and
Rutgers University School of Social Work, Institute for Families

CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
Proposals due on or before Saturday, October 15, 2016

The following topics were suggested by our 2015 attendees:
• Nature vs. Nurture – DNA testing
• Adopted an Older Child….now what?
• Effect of social media – pre- and post-adoption
• Adoption and Loss – divorce, death, leaving home, relationships, infertility
• Openness as a two-way street

As well as our usual suggestions:
• Panels of adult adoptees, birth parents, or entire triad-experiences before and after
• Attachment and identity issues
• School, language and speech issues
• Medical and developmental issues
• Finalizing the adoption (legal process)
• Domestic adoption process vs International process

Questions regarding the workshop proposals can be directed to Pat Bennett, paben48@gmail.com  or 908.273.5694.