Welcome to the 10th Biennial Adoption Initiative Conference
The Evolution of Adoption Practice: Activist and Community Perspectives
CE Eligible: Open Adoption and Open Foster Care: Best Practice in Adoption
CE Eligible: Understanding foster care & adoption from the youth's perspective
Password for the Vimeo Videos: AIC2022PAID
AM Friday Session C Pt. 1 with Jeanette Yoffe https://vimeo.com/710474959
AM Friday Session C Pt. 2 with Yasmin Mistry https://vimeo.com/710493714
Open Adoption and Open Foster Care: Best Practice in Adoption
Since the practice of openness took hold in the U.S. in the 1980s and 1990s, adoption professionals, researchers, and the affected parties themselves have identified many benefits for birth families, adopted children, and adoptive parents. Some challenges have been documented too, including ones stemming from early misunderstandings or conflicting expectations.
It is critically important for adoption professionals, as well as members of birth and adoptive families, to understand openness and the factors that are key to shaping effective open adoption relationships. This awareness is critical in the making of decisions related to openness before child placement and in navigating open relationships over time.
Jeanette will share strategies she currently puts into practice and insights she's gained from her work helping families navigate openness. This session will speak to best practice in building open relationships for all involved in a child's life and is grounded in the "best interest of the child." Jeanette will share from her own personal foster care experience and talk about the relationship she still has t ...
Adoption Initiative Conference 2020/2022 adoptioninitiative@gmail.comWelcome to the 10th Biennial Adoption Initiative Conference
The Evolution of Adoption Practice: Activist and Community Perspectives
CE Eligible: Open Adoption and Open Foster Care: Best Practice in Adoption
CE Eligible: Understanding foster care & adoption from the youth's perspective
Password for the Vimeo Videos: AIC2022PAID
AM Friday Session C Pt. 1 with Jeanette Yoffe https://vimeo.com/710474959
AM Friday Session C Pt. 2 with Yasmin Mistry https://vimeo.com/710493714
Open Adoption and Open Foster Care: Best Practice in Adoption
Since the practice of openness took hold in the U.S. in the 1980s and 1990s, adoption professionals, researchers, and the affected parties themselves have identified many benefits for birth families, adopted children, and adoptive parents. Some challenges have been documented too, including ones stemming from early misunderstandings or conflicting expectations.
It is critically important for adoption professionals, as well as members of birth and adoptive families, to understand openness and the factors that are key to shaping effective open adoption relationships. This awareness is critical in the making of decisions related to openness before child placement and in navigating open relationships over time.
Jeanette will share strategies she currently puts into practice and insights she's gained from her work helping families navigate openness. This session will speak to best practice in building open relationships for all involved in a child's life and is grounded in the "best interest of the child." Jeanette will share from her own personal foster care experience and talk about the relationship she still has today with her foster family.
Links shared during the presentation:
Understanding foster care & adoption from the youth's perspective.
A film screening followed by a panel discussion with foster care alumni and young adult adoptees. This interactive discussion is geared towards foster/adoptive parents who wish to learn how to best support the physical, emotional, and mental health needs of youth who have grown up in the child welfare system.
View film here: http://www.fostercarefilm.com/feeling-wanted
Jeanette Yoffe
Yasmin Mistry
