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Registration Is Now Open for the National Adoption Month Webinar
The 2023 National Adoption Month theme is all about the importance of finding connections. This year’s webinar will provide professionals with concrete, realistic, and successful strategies for building relationships with youth that allow them to explore their identity and form lifelong connections that support and affirm who they are holistically. Child Welfare Information Gateway in partnership with AdoptUSKids will host a virtual event on behalf of the Children’s Bureau:
“Empowering Youth: Finding Points of Connection”
Thursday, September 28, 2023, from 2 pm to 3:30 pm EST
The webinar will help professionals understand how finding points of connection with youth is achievable and can be built into every step of permanency planning. It will feature peer-to-peer sharing about how professionals have succeeded in working with youth to find connections and also amplify perspectives of individuals with lived experience. Members from the Minority Professional Leadership Development program will also join the discussion.
Key concepts that will be covered:
- Creating authentic relationships with a foundation of trust helps youth and professionals work together in permanency planning
- Identifying strategies to find connections that empower and affirm a youth’s holistic identity
- Helping youth create and maintain connections with their birth/first family, racial/cultural identity, and peers
- Reviewing why permanency is vital for older youth in foster care