GACRS is offering a Monthly Virtual Adoption Support Group featuring a New Topic each month presented by a trained adoption clinician. Real Talk is a non-therapeutic conversational experience about issues […]
Learn more about the challenges that come when a child has not been able to securely bond with a caregiver. Join us to hear Ms. Houze speak from her own experience and provide some education on supports for these families struggling to connect and build a healthy bond. Featuring Heather Houze, COO/Advocate
This presentation will help caregivers understand how to engage adolescents in conversations and activities to determine current levels of self-esteem while also providing interventions for this age group filled with pre-teens and teens who are trying to “find themselves.” It will help caregivers understand how to help adolescents reset from a negative mindset to a […]
Mother’s Day is celebrated annually on the second Sunday of May. It’s a day full of love, flowers, and celebration of mothers for most. But for many, Mother’s Day can be a difficult reminder of mother loss, strained relationships, or unmet needs. This session will highlight the following: · Complications in mothering relationships · Reflections […]
Description: What are Boundaries? What are Consequences? Why are Boundaries and Consequences Important? Why is it important for Boundaries and Consequences be age appropriate? Featuring: Teresa Wright-Johnson Founder Zaria’s Song […]
This virtual training is designed to provide participants information on how trauma plays a role in behavior. All participants should RSVP separately. Presented by: Natasha Hope-Moriarty, LMSW
GACRS is offering a Monthly Virtual Adoption Support Group featuring a New Topic each month presented by a trained adoption clinician. Real Talk is a non-therapeutic conversational experience about issues […]
CLASS FULL This presentation will provide attendees with strategies for parenting in transracial adoptions. Adoptive parents will learn ways to support their child’s development of positive racial identity and survival […]
This workshop will explore the physical mental, emotional, and behavior reactions to stress and trauma. Resiliency is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, […]
This virtual training is designed to provide participants information on the dangers that social media poses to teens and young children. Participants will be given information on those dangers as […]
Join GACRS for a monthly virtual adoption support group- Café Chats. This event is for adoptive families who share one thing, the journey of adoption. And while adoption is rewarding it also has challenges. GACRS […]
Parenting Well is a mental health and wellness educational and supportive space for foster, adoptive and kinship parents. Parenting Well focuses on the well-being of caregivers including their mental, emotional, […]
