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Early Fall Newsletter
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**Extended Deadline--- September 10, 2008**
CALL FOR PROPOSALS!
Adoption Connections Training Institute: OneWorld Network
2009 ACTION Conference
Hotel Marlowe, Cambridge, MA
February 23-25, 2009
contact: LarisaK@kinnect.org for more information.
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We Need Your Birthday Photos - past and present
Want to help us to educate many?
Send us jpeg's or scans of your families birthday photos with a note to allow us to use.
Or kids drawings of birthday parties.
Or send originals with post it on back and we will scan and return.
CFFC looking for a collage of birthdays from the past and the present . . . send your grandmothers birthday party in 1911!!!
Please help us with this project.
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INTERESTING ARTICLES
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Your heart will be worn and joyous, wise and beat up, and full of sorrow and amazement --- Letter To A New Parent
A website full of feeling words --- Click Here
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"When I look at the word familiar, it reminds me of the word family.
Are you familiar with your family? Are you close to them?
Or are you too busy?
There's a proverb that reads...
"Listen to the whispers so you don't have to hear the screams."
Be attentive and familiar with your family."
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Topic >
Birthparents
The Other
Mother
by Carol Schaefer
A book in which every birth mother can find herself & her experience
from pregnancy through search & reunion. For all sides of the triangle.
Wake Up
Little Susie
by Rickie Solinger
Ever wonder why birthmothers are angry? This expose & horror story
second to none, and all true! A Must Read.
May the
Circle Be Unbroken
by Lynn Franklin & Elizabeth Ferber
An intimate journey into the heart of Adoption. Through this Birthmom's
journey the triad members will feel and bring all of us into a sense
of community with each other.
Birthmothers:
Woman Who Have Relinquished Babies For Adoption Tell Their Stories
by Merry Bloc Jones
Seventy women share experiences of giving birth to a baby and placing
that child for adoption Each chapter presents a different issue such
as discovery of pregnancy, the birth, relinquishment, raising other
children.
Out of
the Shadows
by Mary Mason Martin
Men who were interviewed reveal a wide range of adjustment to being
a father by biology, not by role. Some know their children through
open adoptions; a few have been reunited with their now-grown children,
while others have no contact with either the birthmother or their
children. Despite widely differing circumstances, some common threads
weave through the birthfather experience.
Dear Birthfather
by Randolph W. Severson, Ph.D.
Gives teenage fathers the information and support they need to make
the appropriate decisions during a difficult time.
A Birthparent's
Book of Memories
by Brenda Romanchik
A memory book suitable for either birthmothers or birthfathers with
room to recount memorable moments with the child as he or she grows.
Birthmother
Trauma
by Heather Carlini
A counseling guide for birthmothers. This book offers a 7-stage recovery
program to help birthmothers lessen the emotional pain that can last
for years following the relinquishment of a child of adoption.
I Would
Have Searched For Ever
by Sandy Musser
A unique book that will stir your deepest feelings. It is both an
intensely personal story of one mother's search and a study of the
important issues surrounding adoption in our society.
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BACK TO SCHOOL
During the summer, things slow down - people slow down.
But now it is the hurricane season in more ways than one!
Trends are interesting at CFFC, and our intakes jump in September and October as the anxiety of getting back into life's routine (school etc) takes hold.
For all children, but especially adopted and foster children, who have experienced loss and trauma, the more you can plan and explain and go over what is going to happen, the better. Calendars and explanations of who is going to see the child off and pick the child up each day, what activities happen after school which days, when is 'work time' for homework and when is 'relax time' for play or TV or computer access. Setting some kind of a schedule right off and keeping it as a guideline will help to quell anxiety.
CFFC has had a fall cleaning! Some of our artistic staff painted, and redecorated some of our spaces in the building! It looks fresh and welcoming.
We are working on our only fundraising event! Awards and Auction on November 13th (a Thursday) at the Hotel Marlowe in Cambridge. November is National Adoption Month. Please buy tickets and bring new people to learn about CFFC and to enjoy the evening and do some early holiday shopping! We could use a few more auction items, so please contact LarisaK@kinnect.org if you have any sports tickets, restaurant or hotel gift certificates, homes in the country for a weekend, etc. The event is always great fun and this year we have a special treat!
We are starting the 3rd year of the Hunter College Graduate School of Social Work Post Graduate Course in Adoption Therapy. Gary Mallon and I developed this and have now presented it for three years. It is a wonderful and comprehensive course that the State of NY has purchased year after year and has replicated this year in Rochester as well. I am eager to have Massachusetts consider purchasing the course.
We are developing a comprehensive pre and post adoption course for parents and professionals in International Adoption and we are looking for funding for this project!
We have some wonderful program opportunities, some dedicated professionals and the only thing missing is some specialized funding to carry out these new endeavors. If you have a soft spot for families by adoption, remember us when you decide on your charitable giving. We are a 501 ©3 and donations are tax deductible.
Have an energizing and exciting Fall and join us at our trainings and events here at CFFC.
Sincerely,
Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao
CEO and Founder
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*TRAININGS*
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4th International ACTION Conference
February 23rd-25th, 2009
Hotel Marlowe
Cambridge, Massachusetts
ACTION February 2009
Click Here for more details!
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Monthly F.a.C.T. trainings starting in September!
September 24, 2008
9am-12pm
Talking to Children about Difficult Information
In this training, we will discuss how to reframe the truth, while helping children to manage this difficult story of their lives. For many children adopted both internationally and through our child welfare system, there is a history of some abuse or neglect that may have lead to their current circumstances. To understand how to talk about these hard subjects and even to talk about what adoption is to children who were adopted as infants, is more difficult than one would assume. This is very important for workers, foster parents and adoptive parents.
This year we have a lot of great NEW topics! Click Here for a list of this years FaCT Trainings.
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SAVE THE DATE
7th Annual
Courage and Curiosity Celebration
November 13th, 2008
6-10pm
Hotel Marlowe
Cambridge, MA
CURRENTLY ACCEPTING
AUCTION DONATIONS!
Please contact: LarisaK@kinnect.org
Click Here for a Donation Form!
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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Executive Office of Health and Human Services
Department of Children and Families
24 Farnsworth Street, Boston Massachusetts 02210
Tel (617) 748-2000 --- Fax (617) 261-7435
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To: Interested Parties
From: Angelo McClain, Commissioner
Date: July 29, 2008
Re: Department Name Change
As you may have recently learned, the Department of Social Services' has been renamed the Department of Children and Families. On July 8, 2008, Governor Patrick signed into law An Act to Protect Children in the Care of the Commonwealth. In addition to the name change, the bill enacts a number of initiatives which strengthen the Commonwealth's ability to prevent, detect and prosecute child abuse and neglect, along with strengthening the Commonwealth's commitment to children in the foster care system.
This change gives the department a name that is more descriptive of its mission to strengthen families and protect children from abuse and neglect. We believe this change provides us an opportunity to reempahsize the positive strength-based work of the agency and to inform the public about the full scope of services we provide to children and families. We are excited about the task before us and look forward to our continued work together.
If you have any questions, please feel free to call me or any member of my Senior Staff.
Thank you.
~ Formerly the Department of Social Services ~
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The Post Graduate Course on Adoption Therapy at Hunter Graduate School of Social Work (Created by Professor Gary Mallon and Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao) will begin it's third year this fall.
On Friday evening and Saturday (as in the two previous years) there will be the year-long post graduate course on Adoption and Child Welfare.
www.nrcfcppp.org/adoptiontherapy has not been updated, yet, but keep checking it for changes that will be posted within the next few weeks. |
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 Please contact us with any questions or comments. Center For Family Connections 350 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02141 p. 617.547.0909 f. 617.497.5952 cffc@kinnect.org Office Hours: Monday- Thursday: 9am-8pm Friday: 9am-5pm
Sincerely,
The CFFC Team
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Quote of the Month:
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I'm talking about belief system! You can discover that there is a fortune in your mind.
Come to a clear-cut decision that you were born to succeed and lead a triumphant life.
Alexander the Great was told by his mother that he was born special,
divine & triumphant! He believed her!! His belief system made him
to succeed greatly in life!
What do you believe about you?? Remember--- All your experiences, conditions, and events grow out of your belief!
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