The Post Graduate Certificate Program is sponsored by
the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, the
Hunter College School of Social Work in New York and Center
for Family Connections in Cambridge, Massachusetts and New York
City
The New York State Office of Children and Family Services
(OCFS) helps increase public awareness of foster care,
adoption and post permanency services. In New York State, foster
parents and adoptive parents play important roles in providing
for temporary care and permanent care for a child or youth who
has been placed outside his or her own home.
Children and youth of all ages are waiting to be adopted. New
York State Adoption Service (NYSAS) welcomes responsible, caring
adults who are ready to share their time, their hearts, and
their lives with our waiting children and youth. All children
deserve a loving, committed, safe, and permanent family. To
learn more visit http://www.ocfs.state.ny.us/adopt/
The Hunter College School of Social Work is
a national leader in child welfare research, training, and service
delivery with adoption as a primary focus. To learn more visit
our website at: www.hunter.cuny.edu/socwork.
The Hunter College School of Social Work is a partner with the
U.S. Children's Bureau - and has a cooperative agreement with
them to operate the National Resource Center for Family-Centered
Practice and Permanency Planning. To learn more visit
our website at: www.nrcfcppp.org
The
Hunter College School of Social Work is also partner
with the New York State Office of Children and Family Services-
and is a member of the NYS Independent Living Network to operate
the Adolescent Services Resource Network.
To learn more visit our website at http://www.nysasrn.org
Center
For Family Connections (CFFC)
Cambridge-based
Center For Family Connections (CFFC), with a satellite office
in NY, is a leading provider of support services to adoption,
foster care, and complex blended families ,nationally and
internationally.
At a fundamental
level, CFFC's mission is to help children feel safe, seen,
and valued, and to help them adjust to the challenges of being,
or having been, moved from one family to another. Many of
the children CFFC serves have spent years in countless foster
homes, orphanages, residential centers, or hospitals. CFFC
constructs families, reconstructs families, refurbishes and
restores families. The experienced clinicians understand the
interactions and needs of complex families and provide the
skills, tools, and talent required to build stronger and healthier
family units.
Critical
to the CFFC philosophy is an understanding that adoption,
foster placement, and other life-altering family changes are
not isolated events, but part of a life-long process. Through
decades of experience working in the adoption field, CFFC
has developed an array of services to address the many stages
in the continuum of care of foster care, kinship care and
adoption. For the first 20 years that Dr. Pavao was implementing
these programs, she and her colleagues were actually the only
people in the country addressing post-adoption services clinically,
without doing placement.
As our
nation restructures its welfare system, and as international
adoptions of older children increase, there is a growing call
to provide education, training, and clinical resources for
families and professionals to ensure that adoption continues
to provide a forever family.
In
adoption alone, there are many different issues depending
on whether the adoption is domestic, international, infant,
older child, sibling set, transracial, kinship (in-family),
guardianship or foster adopt. To learn more about CFFC, visit
our website at: www.kinnect.org
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