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 October 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, October 1st to
Saturday, October 6th, 2024

October 1st-6th, 2024

FREE Broadcast of The Adoption HEART Conference

($149 Value)

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.  

Penelope is the host of the Adoption HEART Conference which she created to empower adoptive parents just like you to finally feel more confident in parenting your traumatized children.  She understands the challenges of parenting children from hard places, and in her quest to help her children, she has sought out therapeutic parenting experts for this event.

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:

Potential Adoptive Parents: You are exploring adding to your family via adoption. Whether through private domestic adoption, international adoption, or foster-to-adopt, you will benefit from learning all you can about, not only adoption, but brain development, early trauma and parenting strategies. 
 
Foster Parents: You are a temporary parent to traumatized children.  You are trying to provide stability and make a difference in children’s lives, if only for a short time. You are in the trenches of parenting trauma. This event will help you in developing strategies to effectively parent through trauma!
 
Adoptive Parents: You already have adopted a child …but…even if you adopted at birth, your child may have been traumatized or exposed in utero. You’re struggling to make sense of your child’s behavior and want to understand how to help your family heal. This event will be what you need to make your family connections stronger. 
 
Social Workers/Therapists: You work with traumatized children or foster/adoptive families.  You want to help families become stronger with emotionally stable children, and may not know what to suggest.  This event is your first step to understanding what is really going on in the home.

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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