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NJ ARCH offers training workshops in
various venues around the state. If you are interested in attending any of these
training sessions, please contact NJ ARCH at 877-4ARCH NJ or the sponsoring
group contact indicated below.
These below workshops are eligible for DYFS foster parent training hours.
Training Events Presented by the NJ Adoption Resource
Clearing House:
NJ Adoption Resource Clearing House Training Workshops
The following are the
courses approved by the Division of Youth and Family Services (DYFS) for
credit hour certification. To schedule a workshop contact Dana Fried at
973-763-2041 Ext. 207 or email
dwfried@njarch.org.
Overview to NJ ARCH
Buddy Family
Training
Basics of Special Education in NJ
Telling Your Child Difficult History
Adoption: Issues of Life-Long Loss, How Adoption
Issues Impact on Life Transitions
Trans-racial Adoption and Foster Care: Parenting a
Child of a Different Race
Adoption and Foster Care in the School
Foster and Adoptive Care Situations: A Workshop to
Help Foster Parents to Deal with Difficult Behaviors
From Termination of Parental Rights (TPR) to Adoption:
The Journey to Permanency
Leaving Home is
Hard to Do
The Adoped Child’s Journey: Questions Along the Way
Overview to NJ ARCH
This presentation will give an overview to the NJ Adoption Resource Clearing House (NJ ARCH) website and services such as the free lending library, Buddy training, Support Group Advocacy programs and more.
Approximate Length of Training:
One hour
Have you ever thought about “giving back” to an individual or family who needs a “buddy” or mentor? NJ ARCH offers this training to assist those who would like to take this progressive step in assisting those who need that extra coaching. This workshop includes the qualities of a mentor, the “Core Issues of Adoption” concepts as well as describes how you can assist a person by becoming a “buddy”.
Approximate Length of Training: All Day Workshop, approximately six hours
Basics of Special Education in NJ
Find out your Special Education Rights in NJ. Attend an overview to a parent/ guardian’s right to advocate for their children in the New Jersey school system. This workshop will assist parents in advocating for your child within the New Jersey Special Education System.
Approximate Length of Training:
One and one-half hours
Telling Your Child
Difficult History
Sharing painful information about a child’s history or birth family can be
challenging for adoptive parents. This workshop will help you develop the
skills to competently tell you children difficult information and help them
process it.
Approximate Length of Training: One and one-half hours
Adoption: Issues of Life-Long Loss
How Adoption Issues Impact on Life Transitions
Adoption issues can impact each developmental task. This workshop will help parents understand how adoption impacts developmental transitions and develop the skills to help their children navigate these transitions.
Approximate Length of Training: One and one-half hours
Trans-racial Adoption and Foster Care: Parenting a Child of a Different Race
Parenting a child from a different race can be challenging. This workshop will explore the various myths in all types of adoptions and will discuss ways to address issues that may come up when either fostering or adopting a child of a different race.
Approximate Length of Training: Two hours.
Adoption and Foster Care in the School
This workshop will focus on the various issues that affect the adopted or foster child in the school setting; adopted related assignments (family tree, genetics, family structure), who to tell in the school, teacher understanding of adoption issues, plus other delicate issues. Included will be discussion and website references and handouts.
Approximate Length of Training: One and one-half hours
The goal of the workshop will be to help foster and adoptive parents be supportive and “therapeutic” in their reactions to foster or adoptive children in their home. This workshop will serve as a training vehicle to assist foster parents in identifying the psychological underpinnings of potential situations in their home. This workshop will help identify possible situations that could affect the family and /or the other children at home. To assist in the discussion, a training video, “Foster and Adoptive Care Situations” from Northwest Video, with various foster care vignettes will be shown.
Approximate Length of Training: One and one-half hours
From Termination of Parental Rights (TPR) to Adoption: The Journey to Permanency
This workshop details the legal criteria for termination of parental rights, contrasts adoption vs. kinship legal guardianship and reviews the psychological issues for children, foster parents and adoptive parents as they move through the process
Approximate Length of Training: One and one-half hours
Leaving Home is Hard
to Do
Leaving the nest can be even more challenging for
adopted persons and their parents because the adoptive family is not the “family
of origin.” This is a time when feelings of separation and loss can be
reactivated. The longing for more information about the birth family can become
very strong. Parents may experience anxiety about their kids’ ability to manage
on their own. Some families find their kids can’t leave without a fight and a
cut off; other kids can’t leave at all. This workshop will address the special
issues of leaving home for older adolescent and young adult adopted persons and
their parents.
Approximate Length of Training: One and one-half hours
The Adoped Child’s
Journey: Questions Along the Way
This workshop will look to address issues that may arise,
including school concerns, identity and loss issues. This workshop is based on
the book “Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew” by Sherri
Eldridge. Information and resources will be provided.
Approximate Length of Training:
Two hours
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