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2018
Friday, April 13th
9:15 AM

Truth, Consequences and Reform: Rethinking Adoption in the 21st Century

Gary P. Mallon, Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College

Campus Center Auditorium, Level 1

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

10:30 AM

Panel Discussion

April Dinwoodie, Adoptment
Elliotte S. Harrington, Montclair State University
Dana Johnson, University of Minnesota
Amnoni Myers, Baruch College, CUNY
Ridghaus
Kim Stevens

CAMPUS CENTER AUDITORIUM, LEVEL 1

10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

1:30 PM

How Adoptees are Shaping Post-Adoption Services

Steve Kalb, Holt International
Angela Tucker, The Adopted Life

Campus Center Auditorium

1:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Meeting the Complex Mental Health Needs of Children Moving to Permanency Through Adoption and Guardianship: A Review of the National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training Initiative for Child Welfare and Mental Health Professionals

Debbie Riley, Center for Adoption Support and Education
Dawn Wilson, National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training Initiative

Room 163C

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Well-Becoming: Well-being in the Context of Relationships for Adolescents

Susan Badeau

Room 174-76

1:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Cultural Socialization and Preparation-for-Bias: Critical Tasks facing Adoptive Parents in Promoting the Well-Being of their Adopted Children

Ellen Pinderhughes

Room 165

1:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Adoption Contracts and Deals as Plan B Parenthood

Martha M. Ertman, University of Maryland Carey Law School

Room 904

1:30 PM - 3:45 PM

The Project on Genomic Family Health History for Adopted Persons: Challenges, Progress, and Where We’d Like to Go

Thomas May, University of Alabama Birmingham, School of Medicine

Room 903

1:30 PM - 3:45 PM

3:00 PM

Birth Family Contact When Children are Adopted From Care: Balancing the Well-being of Adopted Children with the Needs of Birth Family Members

Elsbeth Neil, University of East Anglia

Campus Center Auditorium

3:00 PM - 4:15 PM

Family Relationship Processes and Youth Mental Health in the Context of Adoption and Foster Care: Revisiting the Developmental Interface Between Nature and Nurture

Gordon Harold, University of Sussex

Room 162

3:00 PM - 4:15 PM

A Need for Fundamental Change: The Role of Policy in Enabling Successful Families

Adam Pertman, National Center on Adoption and Permanency

Room 165

3:00 PM - 4:15 PM

Achieving Well-Being for African American Children Adopted From Foster Care: A Successful Rural Model

Ruth McRoy, Boston College
Kathleen Belanger, Stephen F. Austin State University
Joe Haynes, Adoption Advocacy

Room 904

3:00 PM - 4:15 PM

Psychotherapy with Young Adopted and Preadoptive Children with Histories of Early Deprivation, Abuse and Disrupted Caretaking

Cynthia Monahon

Room 903

3:00 PM - 4:15 PM