Workshops: Session 2

1:15 pm - 2:30pm

(A) Legal Issues in Adoption
Presenter: Debbie Spivack, Esq, Don Cofsky, Esq., & Jay Ginsberg, Esq.
Ms. Spivack will speak about Hague issues and DE law updates, Mr. Cofsky will discuss NJ law updates, and Mr. Ginsberg will discuss PA law updates.
Recommended for: adoptive families, social workers, therapists

(B) Adoption: Individual Experience or Family Affair
Presenter: Bob Hafetz,B.S./R.T., author & adoptee

This workshop is designed to highlight how the adoption journey affects members of a family. Listen to Bob Hafetz, author and adoptee, share his personal adoption journey and how the emotional ride affects the whole family.
Recommended for: adoptive parents, social workers, teachers, nurses

(C) Cultural and Ethnic Diversity
Presenter: Sue Badeau, adoption professional, adoptive parent

Join Sue as we discuss the benefits of having a diverse family.  Learn how your children can positively benefit from knowing and living different cultures and what they will gain personally from being in a diverse family.
Recommended for: teachers, adoptive families, social workers, therapists

(D) Psycho Drama
Presenter: David Marion, EdD & Rita Roitman, MSW/LCSW, adoption specialist

Psycho drama is a spontaneous dramatization of key moments and enduring pain in the livesof different adoption triad members.  Whether as authors, actors or audience, we will all have an opportunity to be part of rewriting scripts.  All members of the adoption triad have commonalities which will be explored.
Recommended for: all conference participants

(E) Birth Country Tours
Presenter: Kate DeLosso, CTC

Revisiting your child’s birth country. What will you expect to accomplish with this trip? What is the best age for your child to visit their birth country? Learn about and discuss these issues with Kate, an adoptive parent, author and organizer of motherland Tours for adoptees and their families. 
Recommended for: : adoptive parents, social workers, teachers

(F) All Sides Now - Open Adoption
Panel of Guests Moderated by Maxine Chalker, MSW/LSW, adoptee, Executive Director AFTH

A panel of adoptive parents, birthmothers, and children talk about how they handled their open adoptions and effect on the adoptee growing up. Hear from all sides of the open adoption triad..
Recommended for: adoptive families, social workers, teachers, nurses