WHEN: August 22, 2025 from 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

WHERE: Clarity Conference Room at the Hope and Wellness Healing Center, The Broom Factory, 3500 Boston St, Suite 432, Baltimore, MD 21224

COST: FREE!

What is Adoption Competency?
Join us for a free, in-person event exploring "What is Adoption Competency?", where you'll learn about the Center for Adoption Support and Education (C.A.S.E.)’s specialized therapeutic model designed to support children and families impacted by adoption, guardianship, foster, and kinship care.

Grounded in C.A.S.E.'s evidence-based, nationally accredited Training for Adoption Competency (TAC), this model builds on core clinical training to equip professionals with the advanced knowledge and skills needed to address the complex mental health needs of children who are not raised by their biological parents, and the families who care for them.

This is a free event, and lunch will be provided for all attendees. Additionally, participants will be eligible to receive free Continuing Education (CE) credits approved by the Maryland Board for Social Work Examiners.

Whether you're a mental health professional, child welfare provider, educator, or part of the adoption and kinship community, this session will offer valuable insights and practical tools to enhance your support for families formed through adoption and related care systems.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER:

Tony Hynes, Ph.D. was adopted by his parents, Mary and Janet, in the mid-1990s. He has been invited to be a speaker at conferences on adoption and foster care throughout the nation and has a passion for speaking up for children and families touched by challenges in the adoption and foster care system. He writes about his experiences growing up as both an interracial adoptee and as a child growing up in an LGBTQ-headed household in his memoir “The Son With Two Moms“, which has been cited in the DC family court system to inform best practice. Tony’s work and writing have been featured in The Atlantic, and he is a contributing author to books such as What White Parents Should Know About Transracial Adoption and Adoption Unfiltered. Tony completed his master’s thesis in Sociology on the psychology of children within the same-sex headed household, and completed his Ph.D. at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His dissertation focuses on social connectedness among adult, interracial adoptees. As the Training and Content Development Specialist at C.A.S.E., Tony has designed innovative training curriculums that help families and professionals respond to evaluation and assessment tools that encapsulate holistic pictures of adoptees and foster youth.