Event

Inherent Issues in Adoption and Permanency -  2025 Fall Webinar Series

When & Where

Date and Time

October 9, 2025 | 12:00 - 1:00pm CDT

Location

Zoom

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Cost

Free

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About This Event

Inherent Issues in Adoption and Permanency: Practical Steps for Implementing What We Know Into Practice and Building Resiliency

Adoption and foster care present unique considerations and challenges (loss, rejection, shame, grief, identity, etc.) that impact all members of adoption kinship network and the professionals working with them. In this training we will review these inherent issues and discuss strategies we can use, whether in our personal or professional lives (or both!), to address these issues, promote healing, strengthen families, and build resiliency.

In this session, participants will:

  1. Increase understanding of the core issues inherent in adoption and permanency.
  2. Learn how to recognize the impact of these issues on oneself, one's family, and the adoption kinship network. 
  3. Enhance one's skills to responds and address these issues in a positive and effective manner that is sensitive to the uniqueness of adoption, foster, and kinship families.

This event is directed toward professionals who work with children and their caregivers, as well as families.


Continuing Education: Attendees will receive a certificate of attendance, agenda, and handouts, which can be used for submitting and requesting CE credit on their own.

 

Speaker(s)

Stacy Varouh, MSW, PLMHP
Adoption Program Supervisor
Lutheran Family Services

Stacy is the Adoption Program Supervisor for Lutheran Family Services. She specializes in adoption, kinship, and foster care related issues and concerns, helping caregivers and professionals expand their capabilities to help society’s most vulnerable children and families. She is a trainer for the nationally accredited Training for Adoption Competency (TAC) program, Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) practitioner, and Circle of Security Parenting Facilitator. Stacy received her master’s in social work from the University of Denver and holds a certificate in Animal-Assisted Social Work. After moving back to her home state, she started working in post adoption and has since continued working within the entire adoption kinship network! Stacy’s unique tie to adoption and foster care have provided her with the experience and compassion needed to support Nebraska’s adoptive and foster families and her education and training enables her to provide professionals with the knowledge and skills to better support vulnerable families and be proactive in their care.

Registration Details

Registration closes October 8, 2025.

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Questions?

Contact Haifaa Al-saadi at 
hal-saadi2@unl.edu