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Submit your proposal to the NACAC

Posted September 29th, 2008 by dawn

There is less than 3 weeks to the deadline date for proposals to present at the 2009 NACAC conference in Columbus Ohio.

If you can help parents, professionals, and advocates gain skills and knowledge, please
consider presenting at NACAC’s 35th annual conference on August12–15, 2009, in Columbus, Ohio. 

Until Friday, October 17, 2008, NACAC encourages adoptive and foster parents, child welfare professionals, adoptees, birth parents, former foster youth, researchers, therapists, and other child advocates to submit workshop and institute proposals for the 2009 conference. Three-hour institutes will take place on Thursday, August 13. Ninety-minute workshops will be scheduled from Thursday morning through Saturday afternoon.

Guidelines

Sessions may have up to three presenters. If multiple presenters submit proposals to discuss similar issues, NACAC may ask them to present as a panel. Presenters who are NACAC members do not have to pay registration fees, but are expected to donate their time and expenses as a contribution to waiting children and the adoption community.

Proposed presentations should address topics such as models of post-legal adoption services, family recruitment and retention, parent group activities, or other adoption-related subjects. Follow the format below and provide a detailed outline and a statement suggesting what participants will gain from the presentation.

NACAC makes final session selections after board members, staff, and conference committee participants review each proposal. We will notify prospective presenters about final session decisions in January 2009.

NACAC is not responsible for verifying the originality of submissions, and cannot be held liable for presenters’ copyright infringements or other ownership rights violations.

Topic Areas

Below is a list of topic areas from which to choose when describing the type of presentation you are proposing. Pick one topic that best fits your presentation:

  1. Adoption Agency Issues & Concerns
  2. Adoptive & Foster Parent Support Groups
  3. Advocacy & Public Policy
  4. International Adoption
  5. Kinship Care
  6. Parenting
  7. Parenting Children with Challenges
  8. Permanency Options
  9. Post-Adoption Services
  10. Preparing Parents for Adoption
  11. Race, Culture, & Diversity in Adoption
  12. Recruiting Permanent Families
  13. Search & Openness in Adoption
  14. Supporting Children
  15. Teen Issues—for a teen audience
  16. Therapeutic Techniques—advanced

Another call for papers!

Posted March 13th, 2008 by dawn

SAVE THE DATE and CALL FOR PAPERS
ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSITY IN COLLABORATION WITH MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY PRESENTS:

The 5th Biennial Adoption Conference: Identity and the Adopted Teen: Surviving the Crucible of Adolescence
Date: October 24-25, 2008

Location: St. John’s University Manhattan Campus

For the latest information about the conference, contact the Adoption Initiative via e-mail (initiatives@stjohns.edu) or by telephone at 718-990-5460.

THE ADOPTION INITIATIVE

An interdisciplinary and inter-institutional structure

* to address fundamental issues affecting the adoption community;

* to provide information and training opportunities for professionals about adoption issues;

* to encourage more research effort by the academic community in answering fundamental questions affecting
members of the adoption triad; and finally,

* to provide a forum where members of the adoption triad can find valuable resources.

AKA Call for Papers

Posted March 11th, 2008 by dawn

Each year the AKA Conference Committee and AKA Board of Directors strive to bring you the most knowledgeable and innovative speakers in the adoption field. If you would like to present at our 2008 conference, please submit the application to AKA by March 21, 2008.

Adoption Knowledge Affiliates is a place where adopted people, birth parents, adoptive parents and others are coming together to find a depth of understanding unimaginable before.

Whether you're seeking to form a family through adoption, seeking information about family members you have been disconnected from or just seeking knowledge about the lifelong issues in adoption, AKA provides helpful information through educational resources, on-going programs, and emotional support.

At our events you will find people of great courage, choosing to sift through past and present perceptions about adoption in order to give voice to the losses, joys and hopes found in adoption's reality. AKA is an organization where there is often a broadening of perspective, a change of heart, tears shed and relief found. AKA is a place where people are reaching out and growing
stronger.

Portlanders?

Posted January 31st, 2008 by dawn

I need to start thinking about what I'm going to say at the end of March for the AAC conference. This is the description for the workshop and yes I'm talking about this very site!

Dawn will address the challenges of building a virtual community to meet a real-world need for post-adoption support. She will talk about what inspired the site and the ongoing process of bringing it together, specifically the difficulties of creating community in the often tumultuous online world of adoption.

Are any of you in Portland who might want to come in and be part of a roundtable about it? I'm thinking that I'll talk about the challenges in building it and then solicit thoughts from people who are members and then open it up to the floor. It may be that no one will come to my session in which case we can just
chat and brainstorm amongst ourselves. 

The conference is happening March 26 to 29th at the Downtown Waterfront Marriott in Portland, OR and my session is from 3:30 to 4:45 on March 29 (Saturday). If you're interested in being on a roundtable, please private message me or use the contact form. Or comment here and I'll contact you.