Priority early registration is available only to NASW members until Tuesday, October 12th.

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While the families of adopted children seek professional services in numbers disproportionately higher than the general population, social workers do not receive sufficient training to understand and help this population. Too many social workers are called upon to help adoptive families without fully understanding their challenges.

In this workshop the presenters will identify the 7 Core Issues of Adoption and how they relate to the developmental stages of adolescence and young adulthood. An integrated model will be given on how psychological, neurological and sociological issues and expectations converge to create a paradigm for thinking about adoption and identify maladaptive behavior as a form of communication. The workshop will teach how to reframe those behaviors as a platform to open up lines of communication and create connectedness, enhancing the practice of new communication strategies and avoiding broken patterns of communication. Practitioners will gain skills in reading the subtext that lies beneath the surface of adopted children's presentation when they enter treatment.

With this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Identify the 7 Core Issues of Adoption
• Describe The Adoption Paradigm as we outline it
• Understand the issues that occur for adopted children as different developmental stages
• Learn to reframe negative behaviors as communications about adoption-related issues

NASW-NYC Member: $54 | Other Chapter Member: $68 | Non-Member: $81

3 SW CE Contact Hours

Barbara Freedgood, LCSW, is a graduate of Fordham University School of Social Work and runs support groups for adoptive parents in NYC and Kingston, NY.

Barbara has presented on infertility and adoption both nationally and internationally at Division 39 of APA, IARPP, APC, (Adoptive Parents Committee). She published Loss and Resilience Form a Family: A Relational Story of Adoption in Psychoanalytic Perspectives, March 2013 and a chapter in the anthology “It’s Not About You” 2016. She presented "Who is the couple, Who is the Family in Adoption?" at the 7th International Congress on Couple and Family Psychoanalysis 2020.

Donna Chaiet, JD is the founder and President of Prepare, Inc. an educational services company offering programs that focuses on Violence Prevention, Communication Skills, Substance Abuse Prevention, Sex and Sexuality, and Mental Health First Aid. Prepare is recognized for its ability to create programs that are highly interactive, promote equity, and are custom tailored to meet the needs of groups of individuals with specific needs.

Please note that new members take up to 3 business days to transfer information to NASW-NYC's system. Please plan accordingly to allow enough time for registration.

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NASW-NYC is happy to try and fulfill any reasonable special accommodations requests following NYS laws, submitted in writing to workshops.naswnyc@socialworkers.org at least  fifteen business days prior to the workshop date. Requests received after the deadline may not be able to be processed or fulfilled in time for the event.

NASW-NYC Certificates Policy

As per New York State Continuing Education guidelines, attendees must arrive on time and attend the ENTIRE workshop to receive their Continuing Education Contact Hours. Any attendees who arrive late or leaves early to a workshop will not receive their certificate, is not allowed admittance into the workshop and is also not eligible for a refund in any way. 

Please ensure that your registration information is accurate as this may impact your continuing education certificates.  NASW-NYC is not responsible for the accuracy of your registration information. To receive your certificate of completion, you must be present for the entire webinar and complete an evaluation.

NASW-NYC Refund Policy

All refund requests must be submitted by e-mail to accounting.naswnyc@socialworkers.org. Refund e-mails must include the subject line "Refund Request" as well as the attendee's name, workshop date and title in the body of the e-mail. Valid requests must be received no later than three business days prior to course date. NASW-NYC reserves the right to refuse any refunds requested later than three days prior to the course date.

• All refunds are subject to a 30% administrative processing fee.
• Refund requests typically require 1-2 weeks processing time.
• Refunds ONLY; credit cannot be issued toward a future program date or substituted for another workshop.

If the workshop is cancelled, you will be informed ahead of time and fully refunded.

NOTICE OF FILMING AND PHOTOGRAPHY

Please be advised that photography, and audio and video recording of participants at NASW-NYC events may occur. By entering the event premises, you consent to interview(s), photography, audio recording, and video recording (referred to as the “Recordings”) and its/their release, publication, exhibition, or reproduction for promotional purposes, telecasts, advertising, inclusion on websites, social media, or any other purpose reasonably related to the mission of the National Association of Social Workers.

You release NASW-NYC, its officers, employees and agents from any liability connected with such use of the Recordings and waive all rights you may have to any claims for payment or royalties in connection with such use of the Recordings. You also waive any right to inspect or approve any photo, video, or audio recording taken by NASW-NYC or the person or entity designated to do so by NASW-NYC.

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For any questions or issues, please contact workshops.naswnyc@socialworkers.org

NASW New York City Chapter is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0027, and the Office of Addiction Services and Supports as an approved provider of CASAC credits #0288.