Event Tag: birth families
Working with Birth Relatives in a Strategic Capacity
Who this is for
Adoption Practitioners, Managers, Social Workers (Voluntary Adoption Agencies, Regional Adoption Agencies and Local Authorities), Children’s Social Workers, Support Workers and Independent Professionals.
Details
An opportunity to explore the themes, challenges and successes around working with birth relatives. Together we will explore challenges and opportunities created through the pandemic and how this has influenced changes within CAFIS to how we bring birth and adopted families together to support their child/ren.
“Everyone who wished to got a chance to speak and share. Good idea sharing forum, good to hear how other agencies are managing dilemmas and situations” – attendee, 2020
This webinar will explore how professionals who work with adopted children engage with birth relatives and the effectiveness of this. We will look at how birth parents and relatives with lived experience of forced adoption can support current services, and discuss how it could be useful to enlist the help of birth relatives to assist with future service development around adoption.
“I attended this training on my 2nd week in my now adoption role. Prior to this I worked for 10 years on the LAC m. I enjoyed changing my perspective and hearing adoption workers views” – attendee, 2021
There will be an opportunity for participants to reflect on birth relatives input during both stage one and stage two of the foster carer and prospective adoptive parents’ assessment, how this affects current services and how it could be improved.
You will be able to network with practitioners from other agencies, share best practice and glean new ideas.
Learning outcomes
- Better understanding of the stigma that birth relatives face both by professionals and wider society particularly birth fathers.
- How to engage birth relatives.
- How the needs of children are often overshadowed by the needs of foster carers/adoptive parents.
- How lived experience can support the development of service which benefits the child.
- How involving birth parents/relatives can impact and influence the views of foster/adoptive parents in regards to family time/keeping in touch arrangements
About the trainers
CAFIS (Connecting Adoptive families Independent Services) Barnardos, is commissioned to provide a number of services on behalf of the RAA Adoption Partnership Southeast, including birth parent support, access to records, intermediary and keeping in touch arrangements for children subject to adoption and SGO.
Instructions
A member of staff will be in touch with attendees one week prior to the event to share a pre-event delegate pack.
If you have any questions regarding this webinar, please contact us at info@cvaa.org.uk. We will aim to answer your query within two working days.
CVAA accept online payments only. In case you do not have instant access to your company card, we suggest using your personal card instead to book a training event and claim it back with your agency in your expenses. Requesting an invoice to pay for our standard practice events is not possible.
“We are still Humans” – Supporting Birth Parents through Adoption and onwards
Who this is for
Adoption Practitioners, Managers, Social Workers (Voluntary Adoption Agencies, Regional Adoption Agencies and Local Authorities), Children’s Social Workers, Support Workers and Independent Professionals.
Details
This webinar will challenge your thoughts on birth parents, question the processes they have to go through within adoption and feel ready to return to your work place and make some positive changes. You will hear birth parents views on the workers they have encountered, the experiences they have had and the changes they feel should be made. These views will be shared via recordings and some direct thoughts from birth parents who will be part of the webinar.
Ally Osnowska at PACT will discuss what she has learnt over her time running Birth Family Matters, the tools she uses, and the challenges she faces in her day to day work.
Supporting birth relatives at a time of significant loss is challenging. This practice webinar will look at:
- When to engage birth parents
- Practical exercises that have been especially positive for engaging birth parents
- How birth family support groups can have a positive impact on their wellbeing
- How supporting birth parents can support the adoptive placement
You will be able to network with practitioners from other agencies: whether you are new to adoption or have been undertaking assessments for many years, this is a chance to share best practice and glean new ideas.
Learning outcomes
- To gain ideas and guidance on how to work alongside birth parents and support them in a beneficial and effective manner
- To further the focus in your practice on birth parents and the role they can play with the adoption process and the importance of this for the child, the adopters and the birth parents themselves
- To gain a better first hand understanding of a birth parent’s experience of adoption
- To have a chance to reflect on our own personal practice and how this can be changed to improve our impact on families and their futures
About the trainer
Ally Osnowska has 17 years experience of working in children’s social care. She has run the Birth Family Matters service in Dorset since 2019 and is very passionate about the work she does and is very proud of the birth parents she supports. She aims to make the process of adoption less traumatising for birth parents and has an amazing group of birth parents who are helping her in her goals.
Before this role she worked as a Social Worker in a Looked after child team and spent two years working in a children’s hospice, supporting families in their grief.
Instructions
A member of staff will be in touch with attendees one week prior to the event to share a pre-event delegate pack. If you have any questions regarding this webinar, please contact us at info@cvaa.org.uk. We will aim to answer your query within two working days.
CVAA accept online payments only. In case you do not have instant access to your company card, we suggest using your personal card instead to book a training event and claim it back with your agency in your expenses. Requesting an invoice to pay for our standard practice events is not possible.