Workshop Series

How to Talk to a Child About Adoption: Infancy to 6 Years

Time: 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Date: Saturday December 10, 2011 - BOOKED
Location: to Gladney Center, 363 7th Avenue, 3rd Floor | New York, NY 10001

This workshop is for adoptive and pre-adoptive parents. Some adoption agencies will accept this workshop as credit toward the home study requirements (certificates will be issued).

In this workshop you will learn:

• How to create a safe, open family atmosphere in which adoption can be discussed
• How to lay a foundation for talking to young children about adoption
• A model for understanding what a child can understand about adoption at different ages and stages of development
• Communication tools including anticipating and answering questions and dealing with the more complex and difficult issues
• Open adoption and Transracial Adoptive Family issues
• Understanding which issues are really hard for children to deal with and which issues are harder for parents.
• Helpful resources and books for children and parents will be identified.

Workshop Facilitator: Joni Mantell, LCSW, IAC Center Counselor

For additional information:
Phone 609-737-8750, or E-mail: info@iaccenter.com

Directions using YAHOO maps: click here
Destination: 2 Tree Farm Road, Pennington N.J., 08534