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Primary Audience: Service Providers
The Seven Core Issues bring to light the lifelong, intergenerational impact on people who experience adoption or some form of permanency relationships. Those who may have "aged out" without permanency, as well as caregivers / Humans can be similarly impacted. For service providers working with young people and families, awareness of these core concepts, particularly from the perspective of people with direct living experience, is crucial to deeper understanding and more effective helping relationships. Our session will feature two professionals who will share their expertise from their many years of working in the field, as well as their own personal reflections as Lived Experts of permanency.
Training for Humans is an 8-week program that begins to map out in-depth and evidence-based expectations, hopes, and strategies for being a Human.
In the overlapping role of being a Service Provider and Human to Lived Experts of the child welfare system, we can sometimes find ourselves overwhelmed by a sense of guilt or shame for having messed up. Whether it was something said in frustration, an error in judgment, or simply misreading a situation, the urgency to make a repair can weigh heavily, and hasty repairs can even cause further harm. This panel discussion will offer some strategies for staying grounded, holding grace for ourselves, and finding the lessons and learnings that follow the mistakes we are bound to make in either role.
This webinar will provide information on what it means to be a Never Too Late (NTL) Human. Human is the term Never Too Late (NTL) uses for the role of caregiver/parent.
Humans often wonder if they are doing enough, or if they need to do something big to make a difference. This panel is a powerful reminder that permanency is not built in grand gestures but in the quiet, consistent, ordinary moments that tell a Lived Expert they are thought of, they matter, and someone is paying attention.
