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Virtual Parent Group

  • Wednesday, December 14, 2022
  • 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  •  December 14, 2022
     6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Hosted by Amy Silverman LMSW, this discussion will focus on celebrating Culture and Navigating Difference. Our children come to us with unique backgrounds, stories, and identities. How do we celebrate the cultures of our children’s births? How do we honor their history and the lived experiences of their birth parents? And how do we acknowledge the differences among family members, without creating distance? Please join us to grapple with these questions and support one another as parents.

All parents whose children are enrolled in community programming are invited to join in the conversation. This evening will run as an open discussion so that everyone has an opportunity to learn from each other’s experiences, while hearing from the clinical perspective.

About Amy: Amy Silverman, LMSW, has been a Social Worker for 30 years, including 13 years at Spence-Chapin, working with Birth Parents and Boarding Families. She has returned to Spence-Chapin as a therapist working with Adoptive Parents and adoptees of all ages.

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About Spence-Chapin

Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children is a non-profit organization with over a century of expertise in adoption and support services. We are dedicated to ensuring every child finds a loving family and creating a world where adoption is celebrated and every family is supported.

We provide a full range of adoption services, including domestic, international, and special needs adoptions, along with comprehensive post-adoption support. Our programs serve the entire adoption triad, offering community support, counseling, and resources for birth parents, adoptive families, and adoptees.

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Elizabeth L. Smith

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Elizabeth L. Smith, LMSW (she/her) is a compassionate, trauma-informed, and adoption-competent therapist. In her Adoptee Support Sessions, she provides non-clinical support services to adopted people. Her clinical training, narrative work, and living experience as an adopted person inform her perspective and practice. Elizabeth possesses deep awareness, empathy, and understanding of the shifting complexities of adoption, reunion, search, and the importance of being together in community.

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