Our Caregiver Connections Conference, held on May 9th at Lake Morey Resort in Fairlee, Vermont, is meant to connect, inspire, and celebrate Vermont’s kin, foster, and adoptive caregivers, along with those who work with them.
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Join us on Monday, November 3rd for the powerful documentary Love Chaos Kin: A Look at Transracial Adoption by award-winning film maker Chithra Jeyaram. This is a free event at the Main Street Landing Film House in Burlington, Vermont. Registration is required.
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The Vermont Family Network is offering a free virtual training Aufust 14th 1-2pm that might be of use to you. If you’ve taken classes through the Vermont Child Welfare Training Partnership, you know that it’s always helpful to add more emotional self-regulation tools to your toolbox.
As you work to support children and youth with trauma histories, it can be helpful to have a toolbox of ideas that give you insight into their experiences and that help with emotional self-regulation for both of you. The Blue Knot Group offers a variety of resources that you might like to add to your toolbox.
On this site, you can access their fact sheets on topics including coping strategies, healing, and identity and belonging. You can access the fact sheets here.
Here, you can watch videos on regulation strategies.
Learning to use a trauma lens effectively takes time and practice. Be patient with yourself and with the process.
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Today we’re sharing a thought-provoking podcast about technology and the teen brain.
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Adoption brings with it many joys. But for adoptees, as well as others involved in the experience of adoption, the process of adoption results in facing some lifelong issues, also known as seven core issues, that may show up in a variety of ways. These issues affect adoptees and their families to different degrees over time. Their impact will be different for everyone.
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Looking for support and community? The Center for Adoption Support and Education (C.A.S.E.) is offering two virtual, drop-in support groups: LGBTQ+ Families Support Group and Adoptive Parents Supporting Children with Autism & Developmental Differences.
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