Instructor: Michelle McGowan, Special Education Advocate Michelle is a dedicated Special Education Advocate with over 20 years of experience supporting students with disabilities, including Autism, [...]

Description: Foster care is a pipeline for the Commercial and Sexual Exploitation of Children. In San Diego County alone, it generates over $800 million each [...]

Instructor: Scripps Well Being Center – Scripps Mercy Hospital, Chula Vista Description: The holidays are typically associated with cheer, family, food, and joy. For children [...]

Description: A panel of adults who were adopted as children will share their perceptions about identity issues for adoptees, growing up adopted, searches and reunions [...]

Instructors: Aerin Thomas, Supervisor of Complaints ‐ Child & Family Well‐Being ‐ Office of Child Safety & Maryann Paschal, Resource Parent To avoid allegations, it [...]

If you are taking the class as a required adoption class, you must take both parts, and together they count as only one of your [...]

Instructor: Allison Davis Maxon, LMFT About: Allison Davis Maxon is a nationally recognized expert in Complex Developmental Trauma and children’s mental health specializing in Attachment [...]

This class will focus on understanding the importance of sibling connections throughout foster care. Families will be able to identify some of the barriers of [...]

  Instructor: Andrew Pierce, Resilience Expert Andrew has trained tens of thousands of people in resilience, including elite Army Soldiers, educators, teens, resource parents, and [...]

The voices of adoptees are instrumental in understanding what adoptive children experience throughout their lives. In this class, participants will explore the twenty complex emotional [...]