1st - 8th Grade
Workshops

Youth grades 1-8 will be exploring how the make-up of the cosmos, mirrors the many facets of adoption and adoptive families. 

We will be making cosmic creations, exploring far-reaching galaxies, and using our adoption expertise in a variety of games and activities.

Parent Program

Join us in a thought provoking in-depth conversation on the complexities and challenges your children face in their quest to form a cohesive identity. You will explore the intricacies of their meaning of self as they navigate their personal journey of adoption. C.A.S.E. is pleased to welcome our keynote speaker, April Dinwoodie.

April, a transracially adopted person, is an accomplished corporate marketing and branding professional turned nationally recognized voice on adoption, foster care, and multiracial/ multicultural families. She is a fiercely dedicated leader helping individuals, systems, and corporations as they navigate the foundational elements of identity, relationships, and differences of race, culture, and class.

April works on several federal grants that support adoptive, foster, and guardianship families, and leads Transracial Journeys, a camp for families experiencing transracial adoption. She hosts “Born in June, Raised in April: What Adoption Can Teach the World!,” her original podcast that elevates conversation about adoption, identity, and family diversity.

April will share her professional insights and personal journey as an adoptee to illuminate the many facets of identity formation, the integration of birth and adoptive family, and that the exploration is ever evolving.

April will moderate a panel of adoptees from diverse backgrounds, C.A.S.E.’s Emerging Leaders, to share their personal navigation through the adoption galaxy.

9th - 12th Grade Workshops

In our teen years, our legacies are just starting to soar into the sky, our star power is present but not always visible to the untrained eye. Along their journeys, the stars of adopted teens frequently get temporarily “stuck” by the debris in their galaxy (loss, feelings of difference, reason for adoption, permanence, missing information, identity) present in adoption stories. 

As they look toward their futures, this year, the teen group will focus on how to navigate through their stuck spots to align their stars to create a beautiful constellation.

We will use our creativity and teamwork to engage in activities focused on storytelling, painting, and written expression to provide our teens with an avenue to explore the multifaceted experiences associated with being adopted in their universe. We will draw from the six stuck spots in adoption as we delve deeper into the meaning behind their artistic expressions.