Providing Hope 2016
for Adoptive & Foster Care Families
August 6th 2016
North Church - 1601 West Memorial Rd. OKC OK 73134
9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Speakers include Babara Sorrels, Ph.D along with others
Dr. Sorrels is the author of the book Impact of Trauma on Healthy Child Development - Insight for Adoptive Families, Foster Families, and Caregivers.She is founder and Exec Director of The Institute for Childhood Education & founder of Connected Kids. Connected Kids works to help parents, guardians and child advocate understand and nature children in crisis.
This Adoption & Foster Care Community Seminar seeks to provide trauma-informed education and valuable skill sets that can be used in everyday life.The goal is to provide insight and understanding for Adoptive & Foster Care families who maybe be struggling. The seminar objectives are:
- Trauma Informed Care Education
- Learn attachment and nurturing to help reach their children
- Gain other skills to help strengthen your family
This seminar is free and child care and food are provided at no cost thanks to our generous sponsors. However, registration is required. Please complete our online registration form. If you register and then learn that you are unable to attend, please alert our office at 405-216-5240 or by email at info@lilyfield.org so that we can have an accurate count for the food and childcare. If we reach capacity for childcare we will begin a waiting list and we will place an alert on this page once capacity has been reached.
Five Hours of CEUs have been approved for LPC and LMFT and LSW. The cost to obtain CEUs is $30 and payment can be made by following the link after you have registered.
The doors will open on August 1st at 8:15 a.m. and if you are bringing children, please arrive no later than 8:40 a.m. to allow plenty of time to check your children into childcare.
Adoption touches almost every family in one way or another. Adoption provides a priceless gift, both to children and to families. When we make adoption placements, we don’t have an idea what the true impact on the life of the child will be. We can easily look at people and wonder where they will be in 15-20 years or what they will accomplish in that timeframe.
Here are some influential individuals who were either fostered or adopted:
- Steve Jobs - founder of Apple – Adopted
- Dante Culpepper - Football player - Fostered
- Dave Thomas - founder of Wendys - Adopted
- Faith Hill - singer - Adopted
- Michael Oher - football player - Fostered
The movie Blindside was based off of Michael Oher’s childhood. It is an amazing story of how one mom had deep compassion for Michael Oher regardless of the differences in their worlds. She looked at Michael and saw something special in him. This weekend Michael will be playing in Super Bowl on the main stage in front of millions world-wide. His mother could have never imagined him playing in the Super Bowl when she encountered him at a time of such great need. It wasn’t an idea of his future success that prompted her to love him. She felt compelled that she wanted to make her life count and in turn make a difference in a complete stranger.
As we see needs right in front of us, I pray that we respond. That allow our hearts to be touched and that we move to help children to have hope and a future. Saying yes to loving children gives us the chance to develop qualities in them that will last forever.
Care Connect support groups will meet on October 13 at Memorial Rd Church of Christ.
To RSVP, call 405-216-5240 or email info@lilyfield.org
There are still a few tickets and sponsorships available. Visit our website for more information. We would love to see you Friday night in Tulsa as we celebrate National Adoption Month and as we work together to ensure that every Oklahoma child has a family!