Archive | Old Workshops

  Spring 2015 Location: 333 West 57th Street, #103, New York, NY 10019 Are traditional parenting methods like consequences, timeouts, and reprimands not working for you and your child? Does your child go into a full-blown melt down within seconds of what seems like a minor frustration? Is your relationship with your child suffering? If so, […]

  Time: 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Date : Saturday, January 24, 2015 Location: 94 Park St. Montclair, NJ 07042 Parenthood — whether we’re anticipating and planning, or already in the thick of it —can sometimes be hard to wrap our heads and hearts around. Putting words to complex and amorphous thoughts and feelings can be […]

  Time: 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Date : Saturday, February 28, 2015 Location: 94 Park St. Montclair, NJ 07042 When you’re an adoptee as well as a teenager, grappling with issues of identity and belonging can be especially tough to wrap your head and heart around. Putting words to complex and amorphous thoughts and feelings—like […]

  Parenthood — whether we’re anticipating and planning, or already in the thick of it —can sometimes be hard to wrap our heads and hearts around. Putting words to complex and amorphous thoughts and feelings can be challenging. In this group, we’ll explore our internal experiences around adoptive parenthood through short writing exercises — such […]

  Are traditional parenting methods like consequences, timeouts, and reprimands not working for you and your child? Does your child go into a full-blown melt down within seconds of what seems like a minor frustration? Is your relationship with your child suffering? If so, this workshop is for you. Learn about the child’s developing brain […]

Time: 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Date : Saturday May 17, 2014 Location: IAC Center, 2 Tree Farm Road, Suite A200, Pennington, NJ 08534 This workshop is for you if you are waiting to adopt and would like to learn about baby care. Workshop Facilitator is Nicole Mayer RMA, RN, BSN, an IAC Center Educator, with […]

Time: 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. Date : Thursday October 23, 2014. Group will meet for 6 sessions: 10/23, 10/30, 11/6, 11/13, 11/20, 12/4 Location: IAC Center, 2 Tree Farm Road, Suite A200, Pennington, NJ 08534 Adoption presents individuals with additional life tasks and some complex issues. If you experience any of these feelings you will benefit […]

  Meet other adopted teens. Share thoughts and feelings about identity, self esteem, and forming/building positive relationships. A panel of teens and young adult adoptees about their experiences during the teen years.

This workshop is for you if you are just considering adoption, third party reproductive options or if you are waiting to adopt, do a donor cycle or use a gestational carrier; or deciding amongst these options. You may also want to bring family members who you would like to get a better understanding of your […]

  Join us for an informal discussion and chance to chat with professionals; and other families considering or built by adoption and the ARTS (fertility treatments, donor options, surrogacy, and gestational carriers).  IAC Center Counselors specialize in counseling and education related to adoption and ARTS. We help you to: Consider all of your family building […]

This workshop is for you if you are considering or pursuing an adoption; an adoption triad member or a professional working with adoptive families. Understanding what level of openness is right for your family, creating a plan, maintaining and managing the issues that come up over the life cycle of an adoption will be discussed. […]

  This workshop is for you if you are contracted with a Gestational Carrier and would like to learn about Labor & delivery and newborn baby care. Workshop Facilitator is Danielle Ciccaglione RN, BSN, CCE, an IAC Center Educator, a certified childbirth educator with extensive experience teaching classes on both childbirth and newborn baby care; […]

Participants will learn typical characteristics and behaviors of children adopted over the age of two years and the long term parenting skills necessary to facilitate a successful outcome. Speaker/Moderator Bridget Devine, LSW, is an IAC Center Counselor with extensive clinical experience working with all adoption triad members; families of children with developmental delays, learning disabilities, […]

This workshop is for you if you are waiting to adopt and would like to learn about baby care. Workshop Facilitator is Danielle Ciccaglione RN, BSN, CCE, an IAC Center Educator, a certified childbirth educator with extensive experience teaching classes on both childbirth and newborn baby care; a specialty in educating the Intended Parents of […]

This workshop is for: Adoptive parents of children and teenagers; adoptive parents to be; and professionals. Speaker and Moderator: Bridget Devine, LSW, IAC Center Counselor has extensive clinical experience working with all adoption triad members; families of children and teens with age-typical concerns, psychological and behavioral issues, developmental delays and learning disabilities. She has facilitated parenting […]