This webinar will increase New Jersey workers' awareness of and equitable access to Earned Sick Leave and related workers' rights, Paid Family Leave, Temporary Disability Insurance, and Unemployment benefits. We will send out a link to those who register. … [Read more...]

If you have been touched by adoption or foster care, this is the conference you will want to attend! Save the date for the 2024 virtual conference! Who All adoptive, foster, and kinship parents Child welfare professionals Individuals with lived experience with adoption, foster care, … [Read more...]

Priorities from Lived Experience Leaders  In this webinar, you will hear from lived experience leaders on how decriminalizing the response to foster care involves reevaluating and reforming the way systems interact with families and children in need of support. The primary goal should be to … [Read more...]

This session includes a discussion of the prevalence of dementia in Virginia and its impact on families and finances, and looks at the infrastructure at a state and local level that aims to improve dementia knowledge, care and services, including through the Dementia Capable Virginia initiative that … [Read more...]

There are thousands of people living with dementia in our region and many are active in the community. Join in this virtual session and receive guidance about how to interact and help a person living with dementia. (This is a repeat program. If you've already attended a Dementia Friends … [Read more...]

Evidence to support efforts to reduce the risks of developing dementia has grown enormously in the past decade, culminating in reports from the Lancet Commission in 2018 and 2020. These reports suggested that addressing 12 potentially modifiable risk factors of dementia could reduce global dementia … [Read more...]

There are thousands of people living with dementia in our region and many are active in the community. Join in this virtual session and receive guidance about how to interact and help a person living with dementia. (This is a repeat program. If you've already attended a Dementia Friends … [Read more...]

Each year, CBS Television Network presents an inspirational program featuring uplifting stories of adoption from foster care to help raise awareness of this important social issue. The idea for “A Home for the Holidays” was pitched to CBS by the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption and the … [Read more...]

Free! Calling all teen adoptees! Join us for a one-time, hour and half group for grades 9-12, to share ideas for how to navigate the holiday season. For some this is a time of fun and celebration, for others a time of uncomfortable memories or unmet expectations. We want to hear from you about … [Read more...]

Free! Join us for a hour and half group to explore navigating the holidays with families built by adoption, kinship, or foster care. We will offer some guidelines and tips to help support honoring family traditions and to build new traditions to meet the needs of all family members. There will … [Read more...]