April 1st – 6th Broadcast
20 ADOPTION EXPERTS REVEAL STRATEGIES ON HEALING EMOTIONS AND RESPONDING TO TRAUMA
GROWING UP ADOPTED
Adoptees share their experiences on growing up adopted and lead discussions on identity, race, and common traits and characteristics.
THE IMPACT OF TRAUMA
Effect of various trauma on brain development, prenatal exposure, attachment, behavior, grief and loss.
PARENTING STRATEGIES
Discover effective strategies to calm your child through connection to help manage difficult behaviors.
WHAT PARENTS MUST KNOW
Strategies to overcome stress and burnout, plus healing your own emotional baggage to become a healing agent for your child.
20 Inspiring Experts Reveal Strategies on
Healing Emotions And Responding to Trauma
in Your Adoptive Family
Learn Specific Parenting Strategies From Experts Who Know What You're Going Through
About the event
Where
ONLINE
(Anywhere you have internet)
When
Monday, April 1st to
Saturday, April 6th, 2024
20 Inspiring Experts Reveal Strategies on
Healing Emotions And Responding to Trauma
in Your Adoptive Family
Learn Specific Parenting Strategies From Experts Who Know What You're Going Through
HAVE A LOOK AT THE
Event schedule
Day 1
JUNE 5, 2020
08:45 AM
OPENING REMARKS
Speaker: PENELOPE WEBSTER
09:30 AM
DIFFICULT BEHAVIORS
Speaker: BRYAN POST
12:30 PM
BIRTHMOTHER GRIEF
Speaker: ASHLEY MITCHELL
01:30 PM
UNSEEN TRAUMA
Speaker: RUTH KELLER
04:00 PM
INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION
Speaker: JUDITH FLORES
Day 2
JUNE 6, 2020
08:45 AM
PTSD STRATEGIES
Speaker: JANE ROBERTS
09:30 AM
EDUCATION DECISIONS
Speaker: BETTY HOPKINS
12:30 PM
PARENTING CONFLICTS
Speaker: MIKE BERRY
01:30 PM
SELF-ESTEEM ISSUES
Speaker: MARIE REID
04:00 PM
CHALLENGING BEHAVIORS
Speaker: JUDITH FLORES
Day 3
MAY 3, 2020
08:45 AM
OPEN ADOPTION
Speaker: JACOB FREEMAN
09:30 AM
IDENTIFYING TRIGGERS
Speaker: JAMES ROSS
12:30 PM
COMPASSION FATIGUE
Speaker: DR. SUE CORNBLUTH
01:30 PM
SENSORY PROCESSING
Speaker: RUTH KELLER
04:00 PM
AGING OUT OF FOSTER CARE
Speaker: JUDITH FLORES
Day 4
MAY 4, 2020
08:45 AM
CONNECTED PARENTING
Speaker: MARIE REID
09:30 AM
ATTACHMENT DISORDER
Speaker: RUTH KELLER
12:30 PM
SECONDARY TRAUMA
Speaker: AMY SUGENO
01:30 PM
BRAIN BALANCE
Speaker: BRIAN WATKINS
04:00 PM
TRUST-BASED PARENTING
Speaker: JAMES ROSS
HERE ARE
Our speakers
Bryan Post
Replacing Your Child’s Fear with Love: Powerful Strategies to Stop Difficult Behaviors
Ashley Mitchell
What You Probably Don’t Know About Birthmother Grief & Loss
Mike Berry
How to Integrate Two Differing Parenting Styles & Diffuse Conflicts in Your Marriage
Dr. Sue Cornbluth
How to Help Foster & Adopted Children Rise Up from the Depths of Trauma & Low Self-Esteem
Dr. Robert Melillo
How Behavior is Neurological: How Your Child’s Brain May Be Imbalanced from Trauma
Rhonda Roorda
Growing Up White & Learning About Race as a Transracial Adoptee
Susan Beattie
Blended Families: How to Meld Biological and Adopted Children into One Family
Lori Holden
How To Have an Open Adoption (Even in Foster Care & International Adoptions)
Jillian Lauren
Adoptee to Adoptive Parent: Tips to Overcome Your Past to Parent Traumatized Children Effectively
Sherri Eldridge
Adoptee Grief, Loss & Identity: What Parents MUST Know
Marshall Lyles
What Parents Must Do To Encourage Attachment: Tips & Strategies for Adoptive Families
Marti Smith
Sensory Processing Disorder; How Trauma Affects A Child’s Senses and Overall Behavior
Debra Jones
Trust-Based Parenting: How to Help Your Child Overcome Past Trauma To Build Relationship
John M. Simmons
The Tough Decisions When Parenting Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)
Chadwick Sapenter
Viewing Trauma Through Your Child’s Eyes: Tips From a Former Foster Kid
Melissa Fredin
How To Recognize Prenatal Exposure & Its Complex Effects on Your Child Today & Tomorrow
Amy Sugeno
How Secondary Trauma, Compassion Fatigue and Burnout Can Affect Everyone in a Foster/Adoptive Family
Tamara Lackey
How To Integrate Adoption Into Your Home, Life & Work to Make a Difference in the World
Gianna Dahlia
What Really Happens to Kids Who Age Out of Foster Care & What You Can Do About It
Lindsey Bussey
How To Use Animals & Pets to Help Regulate Your Traumatized Children
20 Inspiring Experts Reveal Strategies on
Healing Emotions And Responding to Trauma
in Your Adoptive Family
Learn Specific Parenting Strategies From Experts Who Know What You're Going Through
About the host
Penelope Webster
Conference Creator & Host
Penelope has been the editor and publisher of the popular foster parenting blog, Foster2Forever, since 2009. She began her blog as a way to connect with other foster parents, and through the years, her blog has helped thousands of people on their journey to become foster parents. She has been a mom to over 20 children as a foster parent, and is the forever mom to two young rambunctious boys.
12 Inspiring Experts Reveal Strategies on
Healing Emotions And Responding to Trauma
in Your Adoptive Family
Learn Specific Parenting Strategies From Experts Who Know What You're Going Through
GOT A QUESTION? NO PROBLEM. HERE ARE YOUR ANSWERS:
If you find yourself in one of the following categories, this event is good fit for:
If you’re ready to heal your family…
If you want to do WHAT WORKS to connect with your traumatized children…
Then the Adoption HEART Conference is for you!
The Adoption HEART Conference is an online event — there is no physical venue and no travel expenses. You can watch anywhere with an internet connection. No babysitters necessary!
When you register for the Adoption HEART Conference, you’ll receive emails about the conference sessions. When the conference begins, you’ll receive the links to the conference sessions when they begin.
Yes! With the All Access Pass, you can take any of the audio sessions and put them on your mobile device for easy access, anytime, anywhere. The video sessions can be streamed inside the members area.
The recordings for each session will be available to watch for 24 hours following each session. Watch it anytime at your convenience during those 24 hours, or you can purchase a an all-access conference pass to get unlimited access to the presentations, along with training certificates & other bonuses.
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in Your Adoptive Family.
Learn Specific Parenting Strategies From Experts Who Know What You’re Going Through