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Wednesday Session Links
Examine the impact and outcome of the Attachment Theory Workshop pilots across countries, including Sierra Leone, Haiti, Uganda and more. This workshop is designed specifically for non-literate caregivers of children being reintegrated home, in order to equip parents with the understanding and skill needed to form healthy attachments with their children who have suffered various trauma. Data collection seeks to measure its impact through pre/post survey data and Most Significant Change methodology will be shared as evidence of the efficacy of the workshop and its iterative, collaborative approach.
Presenters: Laura Horvath, Helping Children Worldwide and Julie Dellamattera, University of Maine
Track: Wisely Engaging for Vulnerable Kids Worldwide
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Reframing the Struggle: Finding Strength When Things Are Hard
Foster and adoptive parents face a unique set of challenges and circumstances that are most meaningfully understood and experienced through the lens of God’s truth. This session will help you “reframe” some thinking through those experiences along your journey in a helpful and sustaining way. We’ll explore how to handle our own perceived weaknesses, what to do when we feel like quitting, and how to more deeply understand the spiritual nature of the work we are doing. If you’ve ever found yourself alone with your own thoughts, fears, hopes, concerns, and anxieties along this journey of fostering and adopting, then this workshop is for you. You’ll be encouraged, inspired, and reinvigorated to take your next best steps forward.
Presenter: Jason Johnson, CAFO
Track: Help for Adoptive & Foster Families
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Until There’s More Than Enough: Working Together to Transform Foster Care Where You Live
You are tired of foster care in your community being defined by the words “not enough.” You know it doesn’t have to be that way - but are a little foggy on the way forward. This session will introduce you to the principles, practices, and people of local foster care transformation through the power of community collaboration. A team of leaders from various backgrounds, who have seen thriving foster care movements start and grow in their own communities, will share their insights and answer your questions about how churches, organizations, businesses, and government can work together to go from not enough to more than enough.
Facilitated by: Jason Weber, CAFO Joined by: Shelly Radic, Project 1.27; Philip Pattison, Foster the City; Lauri Currier, The CALL; and Sharen Ford, Focus on the Family
Track: Building Effective Foster Care Ministries
