Instructor: Sue Badeau, Foster/Adoptive Parent and Family Educator & Author

Children who have experienced the trauma of abuse or neglect need safe and stable foster, kin and adoptive families in which to heal, grow and thrive. Families who care for these children need supports and strategies to be successful. Are you one of those families?

Come to this interactive event to learn about the important role you can play to ensure that every child has permanence – a family for a lifetime.

**Childcare will be available, please be sure to include your children’s names in the comments section while registering along with age and any issues 

About the Instructor:

Sue Badeau writes and speaks extensively on topics related to children, particularly those with special needs and is a frequent and passionate keynote speaker and workshop leader at state, regional and national conferences. Sue and her husband, Hector, are the lifetime parents of twenty-two children, two by birth and twenty adopted (three, with terminal illnesses, are now deceased).

Sue Badeau has a degree in Early Child Development and Elementary Education from Smith College.  She has worked in child-serving fields as a professional for thirty three years working in adoption, foster care, juvenile justice, children’s mental health and education in both public and private agencies.  She has developed curricula on many topics used to prepare professional child welfare staff, adoptive and foster parents, judges, attorneys and youth.