We're excited our Livermore Support Group at Cornerstone is hosting an in person training. Dinner is provided from 5:00-5:30 and the training will be from 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm. Free childcare is provided! Advance registration is needed for all adults and children attending. If you or your children have any dietary restrictions, please bring...
Join us in person, in Santa Rosa, for this year's Reset Day! Gather to reset and get equipped. Let's reflect and reset, to start the year off right with Bryan Post's Love-based parenting approach! Breakfast goodies, coffee, tea, water and lunch are provided! Childcare is available with advance RSVP at least 5 days in advance. Childcare...
Details: 6:00PM – 8:00PM Normally meets: 2nd TUESDAY of every month, 6:00PM – 8:00PM Cost: FREE / Please RSVP on or before the Monday before group Come join us for a relaxed time of food, fellowship and good conversation with other adoptive parents Questions? We’d love to hear from you. Feel free to email Joanne...
Description: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) This condition affects roughly half of adoptees but goes largely unrecognized outside Canada and a few states. It looks like a variable combination of ADHD, Autism symptoms, Attachment Disorder, PTSD and willful misbehavior--along with poor parenting. It baffles and exhausts parents, professionals, and the people who have it, child...
Description: When a family is in crisis, it’s often all they can think about, as they move into survival mode. They are focused on the child’s behaviors and frustrations rather than on growth and healing. But the key to successfully handling crisis in our homes begins long before we are in a crisis. In this workshop, Erin Bouchard, owner...
WHY ATTACHMENT DISORDERS LOOK, FEEL, AND RESPOND DIFFERENTLY THAN OTHER TRAUMA CONDITIONS Course Description: Children who have experienced continued disruption in the formation of primary attachments require a unique set of approaches that will often appear counter-intuitive to what most care providers feel is normal or comfortable for them. Primary caretakers and direct service providers...
