The Inclusive Family Support Model -Live Virtual (01/25/2025)
Includes a Live Web Event on 01/25/2025 at 9:30 AM (MST)
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- Foster Parent (Colorado) - Free!
- CASA - $25
- County/CPA Worker - $25
- Former FP/Adoptive Parent/Not currently fostering - $20
- Foster Source Staff - Free!
- Teacher - $25
- Speaker - Free!
- Foster Parent (Outside Colorado) - $20
- Certified Kin Parent (Colorado) - Free!
- Certified Kin Parent (Outside Colorado) - $20
- Non-certified Kin Parent (Colorado) - Free!
- Non-certified Kin Parent (Outside Colorado) - $20
- New Mexico Misc. - $25
- Foster Parent (New Mexico) - $25
Open adoption is not merely something parents do when they exchange photos, send emails, or share a visit; rather, openness can be imagined as a lifestyle that may have its ups and downs as all family relationships will.
The Inclusive Family Support Model is a blueprint for adoptive families and practitioners working with them to maintain healthy relationships that support the adoptee. In our model, all adoptive families reside in one of four quadrants that we have named: inclusive, spirit of openness, mediated contact, and closed.
Join us to learn what open adoption is and isn’t – and it may not be what you think! For example, did you know that even if your child’s birth parents are not available to you, you can still have an open adoption?
We'll cover the difference between contact and openness and gain an understanding of the Inclusive Family Support Model. You’ll find out what really benefits adoptees, and what strengthens their relationships with their adoptive parents. And you’ll see why openness is the key to being the adoptive parent the adoptee needs you to be.
Hours earned: 2.0
Angela Tucker (Moderator)
The Adopted Life
At birth I became a ward of the state, was diagnosed with Spastic Quadriplegia, and I was labeled a “Failure to Thrive.” I was placed in foster care in Tennessee, before being adopted by a white family in Bellingham, Washington- a city where just 1% of the population is Black. I have seven siblings - all adopted except for one and had many foster siblings, foreign exchange students and extended family who also lived in our home. My unique upbringing has encouraged an expansive and inclusive definition of family and has led me to my mission: to center adoptees.
Lori Holden (Moderator)
Lavender Luz
Lori Holden, a veteran parent of two young adults, has been writing at LavenderLuz.com since 2007 and hosted the podcast Adoption: The Long View. 2020-2024. She’s the author of the acclaimed book The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption: Helping Your Child Grow Up Whole (recommended by People magazine), written with her daughter’s birth mom. Her book is featured on adoption-agency required-reading lists across the country. She has keynoted and presented at adoption conferences around the US, and her work has appeared in magazines such as Parenting and Adoptive Families. In 2018, she was honored as an Angel in Adoption® by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute, nominated by Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado.
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