The goal of this presentation is to educate others on how to become a licensed adoption agency within a pregnancy center, utilize best practices when working with clients, and how to facilitate healthy adoptions for the whole family unit. We will dive deeper into the flow of adding an adoption agency, policies that help us run smoothly, and how to support healthy open adoptions.
We all want our clients to have the best outcome for whatever they decide in their parenting choices. What isn't always clear is where advocating for your client ends and overstepping begins when it comes to helping them with an adoption plan. What do you need to know to advocate well when it comes to adoption?
Learn about three very different clients, all of whom chose adoption for their babies. Discover their similarities and differences so that you are better equipped to share adoption with the clients you encounter.
The goal of the workshop is to equip pregnancy help organizations with resources and tools to reach more abortion-vulnerable clients and compete successfully with the evolving abortion industry through collaboration with sidewalk outreach and mobile pregnancy-help services.
Explore how Pregnancy Centers can develop optimal approaches to create and maintain meaningful relationships with patients who have chosen to abort via the abortion pill, making our priority understanding and meeting Millennials and Gen Z's most pressing needs for healing.
This workshop will offer ideas for best practice on how to balance curriculum fidelity with instructor personalization of SRA/Sexual Integrity programs. It will also review strategies for tracking and reporting curriculum outcomes.
With the rise of fatherhood programs in Pregnancy Help Centers, many questions surround integrating dads into the services we provide and seeing dads successfully transfer from the peer-counseling room into a parenting program. This breakout session teaches attendees to examine their various "touchpoints" with dads by showing how Advice and Aid Pregnancy Centers leverages their time with dads to create meaningful ministry moments.
Participants will leave with tools to be able to create a not only professional but a presentation that will get them approved to bring critical prevention services into public/private schools. They will learn how to build a true partnership to allow long term service within their schools.
The goal of this workshop is to equip care providers with best practices in compassionate language and care, from a companioning approach, for supporting clients who have experienced miscarriage, abortion, or other types of reproductive loss.
This workshop is created to help those serving in pregnancy centers to feel equipped, inspired and encouraged to have conversations about sexual integrity with their clients. The workshop will also include helpful information on ways to encourage parents and other leadership influences within churches, communities and schools to engage in conversations about sexual integrity at age-appropriate levels in a loving, honoring way.
Presented by Jenna Spellerberg and Sara VanErdewyk
Understandably, much of the conversation in the pregnancy help world focuses on big centers serving large populations, but small and rural centers have a critical role to play in our movement. This workshop will help small centers learn how to define excellence in their community and move toward increasing effectiveness in accomplishing their mission.
What does it look like to open up and talk freely with our youth, our students, our children, our grandchildren about sex? Join us in talking about how we can give that freedom and wholeness to our youth.
Co-parenting is critical for clients who choose not to marry. This workshop will equip attendees to lead the way with the vision of healthy co-parenting, effective communication between bio parents, healthy hand-offs, sharing parenting time and equipping clients to become a positive co-parent team that includes both families as much as possible. Extensive handouts will be given that can be used with clients immediately, as well as sharing slides and articles on co-parenting.