This calendar includes opportunities for learning and connection from the Wisconsin Family Connections Center, the Coalition for Children, Youth & Families, and several other organizations across Wisconsin. (NOTE: Opportunities from the Wisconsin Family Connections Center are noted with a blue ribbon on the calendar below.)
–> Find training and event flyers here.
–> For a complete listing of Regional Events and Support Groups, please visit the Wisconsin Family Connections Center Eventbrite Page.
–> Find support group flyers here.
–> For information about Recorded Webinars, Upcoming Live Webinars, Courses, and Conferences, please visit the Champion Classrooms.
Events are added as information is made available to us. If you’d like to share an upcoming event with us, please contact us at info@wifamilyconnectionscenter.org.
This We the Experts is the first of 2025 in the Non-Adoptee Speaker Series. It will feature siblings of adoptees. Sibling relationships are unique in their own right. Throw adoption into the mix, and they become even more unique and complex. Join us as we listen and learn from these amazing panelists who will share […]
For adoptees experiencing any level of estrangement. This group will offer a journey toward understanding, healing, and growth Lean into exploring adoptee critical thought and the nuanced layers of estrangement to foster a deeper understanding of self unique to the adoptee experience. Receive support in practicing compassionate assertiveness and understand how to maintain boundaries with […]
This month’s We the Experts will feature Adoptee Storytellers in their myriad of roles such as authors, poets, public speakers, artists, and other creative outlets of sharing one’s story. Storytelling is so essential to our community whose narrative has historically been written by outside or adjacent counterparts with the intention of shaping the story as […]
We the Experts (WTE) is an adoptee-centered space where adoptees and others are invited to sit in community to listen to a myriad of lived experiences. Non-adoptees are invited to attend as listeners and learners only. Each panel is recorded and made available to registrants with a list of resources after each event. Topics have […]
Wondering why your relationship with the adoptee in your life changed so much? What happened? The goals for this course include: Understanding estrangement and the range of its impact. Examining estrangement in the context of adoption Discerning how we have thought of adoption over time Considering how adoptees feel about adoption over time Examining how […]
Join the first of two Adoption Mosaic Mixers for 2025! The Adoption Mosaic Mixer is an event to connect with our adoptee community and share our passion projects, businesses, and creations with each other. Our intention is to facilitate the building and strengthening of relationships within our community and support each other. This is an […]
