Preparing for Success- Pre-Adopt Parent Support Group- Exploring Common Challenges Before Finalization

Join us for this 6-week interactive and dynamic drop-in support group for pre-adopt parents in Prince George's County. The goal of this group is to help prospective parents in preparing for common challenges and questions that may arise before adoption finalization.

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The goal of this interactive and dynamic drop-in support group is to help prospective parents in preparing for common challenges andquestions that may arise before adoption finalization.

Topics for discussion:

Core Issues of Adoption: Identity, Guilt/Shame, Grief, Loss, Rejection,
Control, Intimacy/Relationships
Discussion about legal name changes at adoption
Navigating post-adopt contact with birth family
Common experiences in transracial and transcultural adoption and
how to prepare
Integrating family traditions and holiday celebrations
Preparing children and families for adoption day, meaning of adoption
Being a W.I.S.E. family
How and when to share about details of adoption
Finding the right providers post-adopt

The group will be open for additional questions and discussion
prompted by group participants about additional topics if not already
addressed.

WHEN: 6:00PM - 7:30PM, runs weekly for 6 sessions - 6/8, 6/22, 7/6, 7/20, 8/3, 8/17.

WHERE: A Zoom link for the support group sessions will be sent once your registration is approved.

COST: FREE!

ABOUT THE FACILIATOR:

Casey Rozmes, LMSW, earned her Master’s degree in Social Work from Rutgers
University, and her Bachelor’s degree in Applied Sociology from Rowan
University. She received a post-graduate Adoption Certification from
Rutgers University School of Social Work. Casey has clinical experience
providing individual, parent, and family counseling to youth and their
foster or adoptive/kinship families as well as experience working in
alternative and special schools. Her specialty is grief and loss and her
therapeutic approach encompasses attachment focused, trauma
informed care. The foundation of Casey’s work is built upon the family
systems perspective with an emphasis on improving attunement and
strengthening the family bond with the goal to create positive change
within the family unit. Casey incorporates the youth’s hobbies and
interests into sessions whenever possible and may include play and art
activities as well as bibliotherapy.

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Preparing for Success- Pre-Adopt Parent Support Group- Exploring Common Challenges Before Finalization