Adoption Today: Navigating Complexities in Family Relationships and Broader Society


Thursday, June 1, 2017
The Brattleboro Retreat
Brattleboro, Vermont

AGENDA
 
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Registration and Coffee 
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM The Many Faces of Adoption Today 
   
 Domestic Infant Adoption 
     Adoption from the Public Child Welfare System 
     International Adoption 

Historical, cultural, geopolitical, economic, and legal contexts of adoption: 
   
     How are these experienced by members of the adoptive kinship network? 
   
10:00 AM -10:15 AM Break & Refreshments
 
10:15 AM - 11:30  AM Navigating contact between adoptive and birth family members over time: 

     Strengths and challenges in family dynamics - domestic infant adoptions
   
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM Break and Refreshments
   
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM Navigating contact (continued): 

     Child welfare and international adoptions 
   
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM Lunch (in the Retreat cafeteria and included with your registration)
   
1:45 PM - 3:45 PM Race, class, ethnicity, culture, and sexual orientation:

     Intersections with adoption in contexts of family and community

Resources for clinicians                                                                            
   
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM  Questions and Answers