Friday
*To enroll in Friday’s Pre-Conference Seminars click on each seminar’s name you want to attend.
| 12:30p – 2:30p | Initial Info Seminar |
| 2:30p – 3:50p | Affording Adoption |
| 4:00p – 5:00p | Traveling to DRCongo |
| 4:00p – 5:00p | Home Study 101 |
| 5:00p – 6:00p | Risks in International Adoption |
| 6:30p – 8:00p | Round Table Discussions Topics: Friends & Family, Keeping your Marriage Strong, HIV, Traveling to DRCongo, Creative Discipline, Stress in Adoption, and Adoption after Infertility |
Saturday
| 7:30a – 8:20a | Breakfast and Registration |
| 8:30a – 8:50a | Welcome |
| 9:00a – 9:50a | Room 1 – Debt-Free Adoption |
| Room 2 – Open International Adoption | |
| Room 3 – Bulgaria Session | |
| 10:00a – 10:50a | Room 1 – Attachment |
| Room 2 – Single Parent Adoption Panel | |
| Room 3 – Politics of Adoption & How that Effects Your Adoption |
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| 11:00a – 11:50a | Room 1 – Sensory Play Techniques |
| Room 2 – Fathers in Adoption Panel | |
| Room 3 – Honduras/Nicaragua Session | |
| 12:00p – 1:20p | KEYNOTE – Aaron Eske Adoption’s Footsteps and Missteps |
| 1:30p – 2:20p | Room 1 – Congo Session |
| Room 2 - Behavior with Adopted Children | |
| Room 3 – Special Needs Panel | |
| 2:30p – 3:20p | Room 1 – Identifying and Addressing the Unique Learning and Social Needs of Internationally Adopted Children in School |
| Room 2 – Birth Parent & Adoptee Panel | |
| Room 3 – Mexico Session | |
| 3:30p – 4:20p | Room 1 – Ethnic/Racial Issues |
| Room 2 – Impact of Nutrition on Behavior | |
| Room 3 – Samoa Session | |
| 4:30p – 5:30p | KEYNOTE & Closing – Heidi Weimer Staying the Course: Persevering in Process and Post-Adoption |
*schedule is subject to change
