Adoption & Fostering Online Virtual Podcast  - Annual Conference 2021

Adopt London

FREE ticket to a conference hosted by Scott Casson- Rennie and Al Coates with guest speakers.

Adopt London is excited to offer our approved adopters one of 50 FREE tickets to this annual conference looking at the theme of supporting the development of children’s identity through childhood and into adulthood. This is an online and interactive conference hosted by Scott Casson-Rennie and Al Coates MBE.Al and Scott will this year be considering how adoptive parents can support the development of children’s identity through childhood and into adulthood. They have a great line up of individuals with personal and professional experience and as always we expect it to be a thought provoking and interesting day for all adopters and prospective adopters who attend.
This training is aimed at a mix of parents, carers, SGO and Kinship, adopters and prospective adopters, as well as those families who may not be able to access appropriate support.
Guest speakers include:Shania Ives – Adoptee and Aspiring Clinical Psychologist. Shania will share her experience and perspective on issues of identity and adoption. David Benjamin – Trauma therapist and Adoptee. David will share his professional perspective and personal experience of the impact of trauma on identity formation for adoptees.Vicki McKeown – Trauma therapist and Social Worker. Vicki will share her perspective on how adopters can support children to develop a health view of self and reconcile early life experience, complex life stories and dislocated family members. Julie Young - Senior Research Associate at University of East Anglia. Julie will share lessons from research on post adoption contact and its influence on identity formation in adoptees.Scott Casson-Rennie and Al Coates MBE – Adoptive parents Scott and Al will share lessons from their experience as adoptive parents as well as consider the impact of life story work, social media, popular culture, sibling relationships and more on adoptees’ identity. As always, all recordings and materials are available post event, therefore any ticket holders who need to leave or are unable to attend on the day, will have access to everything afterwards.

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