Showing posts with label conference. Show all posts
Showing posts with label conference. Show all posts

Monday, September 27, 2010

Regional FSA Conference


The Regional FSA Conference in Kirtland, OH is coming up on Oct. 8th & 9th.
If you haven't registered for the conference, please do so before Oct. 1st.

For more information about workshops, hotels or to register, click here.

Coming Up...
Over the next several weeks we will post highlights from some of the different workshops from the National, Chapter & Regional conferences this year.

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Schedule for Adoption Conference

Hope: An Anchor of the Soul

Friday Sept. 17th, 2010 

Franklin Stake Center
1100 Gray Fox Ln., Franklin, TN. 37069 

Picnic & Activities:
Starts @ 4:30pm and will continue until at least 7:30pm

Temple Session:
Your choice of the 6pm or 7:30pm endowment session (Babysitting provided).

Saturday Sept. 18th, 2010

Franklin Stake Center
1100 Gray Fox Ln., Franklin, TN. 37069

Registration 9:00-10:00am Cultural Hall
Breakfast snacks & opening activity
Hope: An Anchor of the Soul devotional Maria Adams

Workshops (Choose one of the following)
First Round: 10:15-11:10am
Supporting Adoption in Your Church Calling:
Dave Pitcher w/ Amy & Asher Rose; Maria Adams & Kay Abernathy
Highly recommended for Bishopric members, Stake Presidencies, High Councilmen, RS presidencies, and Adoption Specialists.

Foster Care & Adoption:
Beckye Taylor & Carol Sandstrom
Learn about Foster Care and how it can be a potential path to adoption.

Adoption & Children’s Picture Books:
Esther Edwards
Gain knowledge on how to evaluate and use picture books to start discussions about adoption with children and adults.

Workshops (Choose one of the following)
Second Round: 11:15am-12:10pm
How To Outreach & Promote Adoption:
Michael & Laura Law
Brainstorm ways on how to advocate for adoption in your community and potential birth parents.

Legislature & Laws about Adoption:
Dave Pitcher
An overview of the legal processes with adoption and discuss the approaches of different states on these legal issues.

Adoption Panel:
Hear from adoptive couples and from older adoptees about their adoption experiences such as concerns, things they wished they had known and things they wished other people had known too.

Lunch & Panel 12:15-1:45pm Cultural Hall
Birth Parent Panel: 
Hear the experiences, thoughts and emotions of birth parents.

Workshops (Choose one of the following)
Third Round: 2:00-2:45pm
Gospel Perspective on Adoption: 
Dave Pitcher
Explore the doctrine and principles of adoption and strengthen your own testimony about adoption.

How to Outreach & Promote Adoption:
Michael & Laura Law
Brainstorm ways on how to advocate for adoption in your community and to potential birth parents.(Repeat)

Grief & Loss with Adoption:
Esther Edwards
Learn common stages, tasks, and coping skills of grief & loss with infertility, choosing to adopt and placing a child for adoption.

Closing: 2:45-3:00pm
Closing remarks & prayer & clean up

Monday, July 12, 2010

Save the Date

Indiana/Kentucky/Tennesse
FSA & LDSFS Conference
in Franklin Tennesse
September 17th-18th

We are having a combine conference
with the Adoption Specialists who serve LDSFS
and our whole FSA chapter which now includes 3 states!

Friday 17th:
Family Picnic 
Temple Session at the Nashville Temple

Saturday 18th:
Conference with a variety of break-out sessions, 
adoption panel
& food 

We encourage all to attend, especially our members in southern Indiana, Kentucky and Tennesse.
We also encourage all to attend the
Regional Conference in Kirtland, OH on Oct. 8th-9th
but understand if you choose to attend only one conference.

More detailed information will follow in a couple weeks about times, workshops schedule, possible hotel discounts and more. 


Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Schedule for FSA Conference

A Perfect Brightness of Hope
May 1st, 2010
9am-3pm
Schedule
Opening (Everybody): 9:00-10:00am
  • Registration, breakfast snacks & opening activity
  • Devotional: A Perfect Brightness of Hope

Workshops (Choose one of the following) 10:15-11:00am

  • Adoption Basics:
  • Creating an Adoption Blog & Other Ways to Connect with Potential Birthparents
  • Special Issues in Parenting Adoptive Families

Workshops (Choose one of the following) 11:05-11:50am

  • Journey from Placement to Finalization
  • Open vs. Traditional/Closed Adoptions
  • Encouraging Positive Adoptive Identity

Lunch (Everybody) 12:00-1:00pm

Birthparent & Birth grandparent Panel (Everybody) 1:00-1:45pm

Workshops (Choose one of the following) 2:00-2:45pm

  • Gospel Perspective on Adoption
  • Grief & Loss with Infertility and Adoption
  • Encouraging Positive Adoptive Identity (Repeat from above)

Closing & Clean-up (Everybody) 2:45-3:00pm

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Book List from Esther Edwards

At our adoption conference on October 1oth, Esther Edwards gave a great presentation about using children's books to foster a positive adoptive identity in our children.
Here is a list of her favorite children's books about adoption.

Esther Edwards Top 12 Favorite Children's Books about Adoption
My Family is Forever by Nancy Carlson
How I Was Adopted by Joanna Cole


Three Names of Me by Mary Cummings
Tell Me Again About the Night I was Born by Jaime Lee Curtis


All Together Now by Anita Jeram A Mother for Choco by Keiko Kasza
Over the Moon by Karen KatzHorace by Holly Keller
The Red Thread: An Adoption Fairy Tale by Grace Lin

The Family Book by Todd Parr
Sam's Sister by Juliet C. Bond
Logan's Journey by Kathy Heath & Karla Martin

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

October 10th Adoption Training


Hearts Knit Together in Unity and Love

Annual FSA Adoption Training Meeting
October 10, 2009
9:00 a.m. to 3 p.m.
110 N. White River Parkway W. Drive
Indianapolis, IN
*Please RSVP to indianafsa@gmail.com if you will be attending. Let us know if you need babysitters, too.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

National Conference



CONFERENCE BASICS

July 31, 2009 to August 1, 2009

The conference will be held for a second time at the Davis Conference Center.


SCHEDULE

Below is the schedule overview at-a-glance. For a more detailed description of the classes including the class descriptions, times and locations as well as bios on the presenters, click HERE.

Friday, July 31st


Registration9:00-9:30
Breakout session 19:30-10:30
Breakout session 210:40-11:40
Lunch on your own11:40-1:10
Breakout session 31:15-2:15
Breakout session 42:25-3:25
Breakout session 53:35-4:35


Awards Banquet 5:30-7:00
(Semi-formal dress)



Saturday, August 1st

8:00-9:00


Registration9:00-9:30
Keynote address by Troy Dunn9:30-10:30
Birth Parent Panel10:45-12:00
Lunch 12:00-1:00
Breakout session 11:00-2:00
Breakout session 22:10-3:10
Breakout session 33:20-4:20
Closing session and raffle4:30-4:45



REGISTRATION

To register, CLICK HERE.

This is for registration and payment purposes only. Please disregard any information related to Temple Square events.

Some clarification for registration:

Couples are $60 each, so they only need to register for ONE ticket. This is located toward the bottom of the registration, and is not part of the special code. Once they select one ticket and click continue, it will ask if they will be coming both day, ($60), one of them both days/both of them one day ($30) or one of them on day ($15). Sorry for any confusion. Please email us at the email address below if you have any problems.

Adoptive parents and hopeful adoptive parents are invited.

We also are inviting expectant parents, birth parents, and their families again this year. A great amount of effort has gone into planning breakout sessions for them. Expectant parents and birth families may register for free by typing in “itsaboutlove” in the special code field on the registration form. Regular fees apply to their guests.


HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS

A few hotel rooms at the Hilton Garden Inn (762 West Heritage Park Blvd, Layton, Utah, 84041) are blocked out for a discounted event rate. You may reserve a room by phone or through the hotel’s Web site. Call 801-416-8899 and make sure to mention the group code, which is “LDS” and the group name, which is “LDS Family Services.” You may also register online here. In the group code field, enter “LDS.” In order to get the discounted rate of $89, you must be registering for the blocked date (July 31st). We will be posting other hotel options when the hotel is full.


CHILDREN'S ROOM

A children’s room will be available again during the conference and banquet. Please email Narda Emmett (imaemett@yahoo.com) to register your children. The cost will be $10 per day, per child. She will provide you with the details.


AIRPORT SHUTTLE

From the airport Express Shuttle - 801-596-1600.


QUESTIONS?

If you have general questions, please email contactus@ldsfamilyservices.org with “National Conference” as the subject.