Pre Conference Workshops

Pre-Conference Sessions

Thursday October 23, 2025 | 10am - 4pm | Lunch included
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Unlocking Identity Development: Tools To Empower Transracial Families

Cam Lee Small | Therapy Redeemed

For children navigating foster and adoptive care, specifically in transracial families, identities can form subconsciously. This includes a combination of truths and lies they believe about their story, ethnicity, worth, and more. Learning to nurture a child’s identity becomes a pivotal factor for empowering adoptee and foster youth with tools to process and respond confidently to situations throughout their life. If you are a part of a transracial family, this session is for you.This workshop will provide caregivers and professionals with expertly curated skills and strategies to apply in the ares of conscious vs subconscious identity development, adoption competency, parenting worldviews, as well as a self assessment to guide growth.
  • Foster Parent training credit available (5.5 hours)
  • Lunch Included
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Parenting With the Brain in Mind

Bethany Hall | Chosen.care

If you feel defeated in parenting, this session will help give you tools to move forward. Parenting with the Brain in Mind offers foster and adoptive parents insights into applying a brain-based approach to the challenges of caring for children with hard backgrounds. Explore the concept of Blocked Care, understanding how our own nervous systems can end up in self-protection mode and shutdown the joy and compassion in parenting. Learn more about Executive Function, recognizing how developmental trauma alters decision-making and regulation in children. Gain practical strategies to foster empathy for yourself and your child, increase your ability to build connection and resilience, all rooted in a deeper understanding of the neurobiological aspects of parenting or caregiving.

  • Foster Parent training credit available (5.5 hours)
  • Lunch Included
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Replanted Leaders Gathering

In Chicago

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