Recent Presentations:

• Attachment, Trauma and the Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency, UC Davis Complex Care webinar, May 2024
• Loss and Longing, Never Too Late Ontario Canada, April 2024
• Parenting Children and Teens Who Have Experienced Loss and Trauma, Virginia Department of Social Services, April 2024
• Virtual Book Club on The Seven Core Issues Workbook for Parents of Traumatized Children and Teens, ATTACh, Feb-April 2024
• Kinship Families: Supporting Intergenerational Healing (keynote), Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, March 2024
• Seven Core Issues in Kinship Families: Strengths, Growth and Healing, Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, March 2024
• Parenting Children and Teens Who Have Experienced Loss and Trauma, Grossmont College & SDYS, San Diego, Nov 2023
• Seven Core Issues for Children and Teens, Adoption Council of Ontario Permanency Conference, Nov 2023 
• Kinship Families: Supporting Inter-Generational Healing, ATTACh Conference, Virginia, Oct 2023 
• Parenting in the Trauma Trenches, ATTACh Conference, Virginia, Oct 2023
• Talking About the Tough Stuff: Grief, Loss, Trauma, Identity and Adoption/Permanency, Voices for CASA Arizona, Aug 2023
• Why Connections Matter, Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services, July 2023
• Talking About the Tough Stuff: Grief, Loss, Trauma, Identity and Adoption/Permanency, Penny Lane & LADCFS, Los Angeles, April 2023
• Attachment, Trauma and the Seven Core Issues in Clinical Practice (6 hrs), Manitoba, Canada, Jan 2023 
• How to Talk With Kids About Adoption, Foster Care and Attachment (webinar), available at Dr Robyn Silverman’s Podcast, Dec 2022
• Parenting in the Trauma Trenches, PACT Adoption Council of Ontario, Canada, Nov 2022
• Parenting in the Trauma Trenches (webinar), available at National Center on Adoption and Permanency, Sept 2022
• Attachment, Trauma and the Seven Core Issues in Clinical Practice (12 hrs) Aspiranet, Turloc, Ca, Sept 2022
• Attachment, Trauma and the Seven Core Issues in Adoption/Permanency, Lilliput/Wayfinder Family Services, Ca, May 2022
• ACT: An Adoption and Permanency Curriculum for Child Welfare and Mental Health Professionals (48 hrs), San Diego County Child Welfare Services, Spring 2022
• ACT: An Adoption and Permanency Curriculum for Child Welfare and Mental Health Professionals (48 hrs), Santa Clara County Department of Family and Children’s Services, Spring 2022
• Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency, ‘Thriving Adoptees’ Podcast, UK, Jan 2022
• Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency (keynote), Adoption Knowledge Affiliates, Texas, Nov 2021
• Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency, Nebraska Dept of Health and Human Services, Statewide Conference, Sept 2021
• Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency, Children’s Bureau, Los Angeles, Sept 2021
• When Attachment and Independence Collide: Parenting Children and Teens with Complex Trauma and Loss, Seneca/Kinship, June 2021
• Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency: A Guide to Promoting Understanding and Healing (keynote) Diakon Statewide Permanency Conference Pennsylvania, June 2021
• When Attachment and Independence Collide: Parenting Children and Teens with Complex Trauma and Loss, Aspiranet, Ca May 2021
• Attachment, Trauma & the Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency, Lilliput/Wayfinder Family Services, Ca May 2021
• Seven Core Issues in Kinship Families, MN Adopt, St. Paul Minnesota, April 2021
• Attachment, Trauma & Child Development, Orange County Public Defenders, March 2021
• Desperately Seeking Attachment: How Trauma & Neglect Disrupt Attachment, First Five Lake County Ca, Feb 2021
• Seven Core Issues in Adoption & Permanency, Massachusettes DCF, Jan 2021
• What To Do with Challenging Behaviors: Parenting Children with Complex Trauma, Grossmont College & San Diego Youth Services Nov 2020
• Ethics in Adoption/Permanency, Children’s Aid Society Permanency Conference Alabama, Sept 2020
• Joy & Sorrow in the Same Cup: Adoption/Permanency, North American Council on Adoptable Children, Aug 2020
• Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency, Adoption UK, United Kingdom, June 2020
• Parenting Tips & Tools to Reduce Toxic Stress, Aspiranet, April 2020
• The Power of Storytelling and the Making of Instant Family with Sean Anders, Children’s Home Society NC, April 2020
• ACT: An Adoption and Permanency Curriculum for Child Welfare and Mental Health Professionals (48/hrs), San Diego Child Welfare Services Adoption/Permanency Division, Spring 2020
• Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency, Celia Center Los Angeles, March 2020
• ACT: An Adoption and Permanency Curriculum for Child Welfare and Mental Health Professionals (48/hrs), San Bernadino Child and Family Services, Spring 2020
• Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency, Grossmont College & San Diego Youth Services, February 2020
• Seven Core Issues Unique to Kinship Families, Family Support Services of North Florida, January 2020
• Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency, C.A.S.E. KAN Conference, Maryland, November 2019
• Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency, Children’s Aid Society of Alabama, November 2019
• Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency, ATTACh Conference, October 2019
• Assessing & Facilitating Placement Changes Through the Attachment Lens: Reducing Toxic Stress for Children in Foster Care, National Association of Council for Children Conference, August 2019 
• Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency (keynote), North American Council on Adoptable Children, July 2019
• The Art & Science of Attachment: Understanding How Trauma and Neglect Disrupt Attachment, Florida Coalition for Children Conference, July 2019
• Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency, National Foster Parent Association Conference, June 2019
• Joy and Sorrow in the Same Cup: Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency, Penny Lane, May 2019
• Desperately Seeking Attachment: Understanding How Neglect & Trauma Disrupt Attachment, Adoption Conference Children’s Home Society South Dakota, April 2019
• The Dance of Attachment (keynote), Permanency Conference Children’s Aid Society of Alabama, March 2019
• ACT: An Adoption and Permanency Curriculum for Child Welfare and Mental Health Professionals San Diego Child Welfare Services 2019
• Progressing from Child Placement to Family Success, Connecticut Council on Adoption, Nov 2018
• Seven Core Issues in Adopton & Permanency, North American Council on Adoptable Children, August 2018
• What To Do With All That Anger: Theirs and Ours!, North American Council on Adoptable Children, August 2018
• Joy & Sorrow in the Same Cup: Supporting Constellation Members Through Grief & Loss Issues, Aspiranet, June 2018
• Parenting Children with Complex Trauma & Neglect, C.A.S.E. Webinar, March 2018
• Understanding How Complex Trauma and Neglect DIsrupt Attachment, LA County Dept. Mental Health, Feb 2018
• Embedding Adoption & Permanency Clinical Competence Across Communities, North American Council on Adoptable Children, July 2017
• Lying, Stealing & Manipulating: What To Do About Challenging Behaviors, North American Council on Adoptable Children, July 2017
• Desperately Seeking Attachment: Understanding How Trauma & Neglect Disrupt Attachment, Penny Lane Training Academy, April 2017
• Innovative Partnerships to Achieve Permanency Clinical Competence, Child Welfare League of America Conference 2017
• 10 Things Your Child Needs Every Day! The Spirit of Family Through Adoption, Orange County Social Services Association 2016
• Where Attaching and Independence Collide: Parenting Teens and Tweens with Complex Trauma & Loss, San Diego Youth Services 2016
• Lying, Stealing & Manipulating: What To Do About Challenging Behaviors, North American Council on Adoptable Children Conference 2016
• Attachment, Trauma & Permanency, Seneca Family of Agencies 2016
• The Art and Science of Attachment, San Diego Youth Services 2016
• ACT: An Adoption and Permanency Curriculum for Child Welfare and Mental Health Professionals (48/hrs) San Diego Child Welfare Services 2016
• Core Issues for Kinship Caregivers, North American Council on Adoptable Children 2016
• Making the Case for Post Adoption Support, Transitional Aged Youth: Where Attaching and Independence Collide, North American Council on Adoptable Children Conference 2015
• Attachment, Trauma & Permanency, University Consortium for Children and Families 2015
• 10 Things Kinship Caregivers Need, North American Council on Adoptable Children Conference 2015
• Desperately Seeking Attachment: How Trauma & Neglect Disrupt Attachment, 2 pt webinar the Center for Adoption Support and Education 2015
• Shifting the Mindset: A Strength-Based Approach to Adoption Competence and Relational Healing, American Adoption Congress Conference 2014
• 10 Things Kinship Caregivers Need, North American Council on Adoptable Children Conference 2014
• Learning a New Dance: the Dance of Permanence, Child Welfare League of America Conference 2013
• If Not Now . . . When? A Model for Post-Permanency Support & Training, Child Welfare League of America Conference 2012
• Becoming a Permanency Warrior, Orange County CASA Conference 2012
• If Not Now . . . When? Building Your Adoption Competency, North American Council on Adoptable Children Conference 2012
• Permanency: A Legal and Psychological Mandate for Youth in Foster Care, AdvoKids 2011
• Desperately Seeking Attachment: How Trauma & Neglect Disrupt Attachment, Systems of Care Conference San Diego Children’s Mental Health 2011
• Making the Case for Permanence, Lewis B. Smedes Conference, Los Angeles 2011
• Shifting the Mindset: Mental Health Interventions for Permanency in Child Welfare, Georgetown National Systems of Care Conference 2010
• ACT: An Adoption and Permanency Curriculum for Child Welfare and Mental Health Professionals (48/hrs)
• Pathways to Permanence: Parenting Children Who Have Experienced Trauma and Loss (21/hrs)