Watch as Dr. Karyn Purvis explains the importance of parents being willing to look at their own histories as well as their expectations as they seek to connect with their children.
Looking at ...
Watch as Dr. Purvis provides practical insight to parents about how they can effectively correct their children while still empowering and connecting with them.
Parenting Strategies That ...
Rob Mitchell is one of the last “lifers” raised in an American orphanage. Left by a dysfunctional family in an Illinois children's home, he grew up with kids who were not friends but rather ...
Join author Nancy McCullough as she shares her fascinating story of how God orchestrated her adoption from Hong Kong. She relates her struggles related to the unknown reason for abandonment, ...
Real-Life Solutions to Common Challenges
"Adoption is a high calling from God, and the Christian home is primary soil for planting seeds of faith. But how will post-adoption challenges affect this ...
In The Connecting Link: What Parents Need to Bring Healing to Their Children, delivered at the 2009 Tapestry Adoption & Foster Care Conference, Dr. Purvis provides parents with a better ...
Watch as Dr. Karyn Purvis talks about the need for parents to focus on every aspect of their child’s wellbeing in order to help them heal and overcome their challenges.
Focusing on the Whole ...
Along with the joys and blessings of adoption and foster care come some difficult and often painful realities – issues such as grief, loss, abandonment, past trauma and the need for forgiveness, just ...
Many families fear adoption because they fear “genetics” – “is it true that as the child grows up, he’ll become like his alcoholic father or drug-addicted mother?..” This seminar, by Peter and ...
Watch here as Mikhail Pimenov, the director of the foster care training school "Family" shares how individuals can start up their own training schools for adoptive and foster parents. This ...
Join adoption advocates Petr and Tamara Dudnik as they provide answers to frequently asked questions: what is the difference between adoption and foster parenting, does the government support ...
Join adoption advocate Tamara Dudnik as she shares about difficulties in raising adopted children, and how to overcome those difficulties.
Session was filmed at the 2009 Eastern European Summit ...
Motivation/Filtration/Preparation/Support-- Join Mikhail Kozitsky and Dr. Susan Hillis as they share four steps towards helping adoptve and foster families:
Participants will be able to ...
Dr. Susan Hillis of the CDC shares the most up-to-date government statistics on the magnitude of the orphan problem, as well as offers hope for potential solutions. Video footage from the 2009 ...
Peter Kravchuk speaks at the 2009 Eastern European Summit on Orphans and the Church. Peter is the father of 21 adopted children, as well as a board member of Light of Love, an NGO that ...
Great paper on UNICEF & International Adoption from Dr. Elizabeth Bartholet, Harvard Law Professor. Read her abstract here, or click the link below to read her entire ...
A list of over 15 Russian resources on adoption and foster care, that are very useful for Russian-speaking believers ministering to orphans. This is a list of over 15 Russian resources on adoption ...
