Changing Landscape, the 2016 New York State Foster Care and Adoption Conference presented by the Coalition will focus on emerging trends and recent legislation that will transform the practice of foster care and adoption in the coming decade. Eighteen years since the passage and implementation of … [Read more...]

The annual NFPA convention is a gathering of foster, adoptive, and kinship parents, along with child welfare professionals from across the country.  It includes three days of educational workshops and keynote sessions.  Parents can earn up to 20 training hours. … [Read more...]

The day will feature useful and exciting perspectives shared by practitioners, researchers, those who have been adopted, those who have experienced foster care, their family members, and policy makers. … [Read more...]

Register by phone: (973) 642-8100 ext. 123 or email start@spannj.org This conference will help families develop their skills advocating for their children and impacting the systems that affect their children birth to age 8 and beyond.  Parents will have the opportunity to gain skills for … [Read more...]

The NJ Department of Children and Families and the Institute for Families at Rutgers University School of Social Work invite youth and those that work with youth who have experience in the New Jersey child welfare system to join in a day of collaborative learning and networking with fellow child … [Read more...]

9/11 Families, Survivors and Responders:  No Charge Symposium Fee for Professionals:  $75; 5 CEU Credits: $50; Students:  $25; Exhibitor Table Fee:  $100 9/11 families, responders and survivors are invited guests.  Mental health and public health providers, emergency managers and law enforcement … [Read more...]

This conference looks at stories, histories, and life experiences of adoption that deal with forming new communities and new discourses – about family, transnationalism, origins, law, ethics, race and ethnicity, foster care, assisted reproduction, and much more.  We encourage discussion of … [Read more...]

Our half day series of workshops are open to pre-adoptive parents, adoptive parents, foster parents, foster children and adoptees Space is limited so please register early! FREE for current CPFA members, $25 fee per family for non-members.* This fee will entitle your family to a year of CPFA … [Read more...]

“The Annual Adoption Gathering will be a safe place to explore the many emotions experienced by adoptees, birthparents and other touched by Ohio’s opening of adoptees’ birth records, but it goes far beyond that as well,”  said Executive Director Betsie Norris.  “We welcome all hose walking the … [Read more...]

Early Bird discounted registration of $300 is available until April 17, 2016.  General conference admission is $350 if you register before June 20th, 2016; lower rates are available for speakers, groups and people on the autism spectrum (those with ASD may apply for registration fees to be waived if … [Read more...]