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Center for Family Connections

 

 

Cambridge + New York

Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao, Founder and Director

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ARC Summer Intensive
July 13-17, Provincetown, Cape Cod

 

Track I for Parents, Professionals, and Friends of Adoption and Complex Families Track II for Clinicians...Intensive Clinical Training

$650 for both tracks of $150 per session (eight sessions).  Call for full brochure.

 

Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao is the Director.  The trainings include many trainers well known in the adoption field: (Past presenters have included Corinne Rayburn, Michael Colberg, Bob Childs, Sue Harris, Dr. Rick Pinderhughes, Sheridan Robbins, Susan Darke, Penny Callan Partridge, Dr. Matilda Casler, Jill Crozier, Dr. Lisa Albers, Linda Grillo, Julie Pelletier-Rutkowski, Mopsy Strange Kennedy, Dr. Phyllis Silverman, Dr. Miriam Ornstein, Dr. Steve Nickman, Michael Meltsner, Prof. Ruth Arlene Howe, Val Batts, Rob Guise, Dr. Jeb Blom, Deb Fiore, Rev. Katie Lee Crane, with visits and readings in the past by BJ Lifton, Sally Fine, Susan Wadia Elis, and Jan Waldron.)

 

FACT Intensive Family Therapy Training for Working with Complex Families
September 11, 12, 13 in Cambridge, MA.  (Friday evening and full day Saturday and Sunday)
Follow-up sessions in October, April, and June.  Dates to be announced.  Call for full brochure.

 

Year-long FACT Training (now in collaboration with Adoption Crossroads of Massachusetts)
All FACT trainings are on Fridays from 9-4.  CEUs available.

 

September 18, 1998
Intro to Training, Genograms and Working with Groups (Pavao, Rayburn, Childs, and Grillo)
February 19, 1999
Medical and Psychopharmacological Issues in Adoption and Foster Care (Ornstein, Albers, Pelletier-Rutkowski, Hogan-Donaldson, Blom)
Court-Related Issues in Adoption (Dillard, Meltsner)
October 16, 1998
Birthparent Loss (Robbins, Silverman, Odom, Wittlin, and Sandler)
March 5, 1999
Search and Reunion Issues (Pavao, Rayburn, Darke, Frankel, and Grillo)
November 20, 1998
Transracial, Single Parent, and Gay and Lesbian Adoptions (Pavao, Pinderhughes, Colberg, Harris and others to be announced)
March 19, 1999
School-related issues in Adoption (Pavao, Rayburn, Fiore and others to be announced)
and Working with Kids (Casler, Wittlin, Crozier, Lerminiaux, and Pavao)
January 22, 1999
Harvard Medical School -- Cambridge Series
Day-long for Professionals
April 16, 1999
Open Adoption and Opening Close Adoptions (Pavao, Rayburn, Colberg, and others to be announced)
February 5, 1999
Cultural Sensitivity and International Adoptions (Pavao, Batts, Pinderhughes, and others to be announced)
May 14, 1999
Review and Endings as Beginnnings.
Supervision Groups: Monthly supervision groups available.  Ten 2-hour meetings per year.   $1,000 AAMFT Approved Supervisor.  Call for brochure.

 

Posted at the request of the Center for Family Connections.  For further information please contact CFFC, P.O. Box 383246, Cambridge, MA  02238.   Tel: (617) 547-0909, (800) KINNECT, Fax: (617) 497-5952, E-mail: kinnect@aol.com