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BREAKOUT SESSIONS I (Thursday, May 12th, 11:00am – 12:00pm)

  • Adoption from the Inside Out
  • Adopting and Advocating for Children with HIV
  • Building Church Orphan Ministries 101:  Launching an Orphan Ministry in Your Church
  • Encouragement for Orphan Ministry Leaders
  • Engaging Your People: Build a High Impact Ministry Team
  • From Institution to Family- and Community-Centered Care
  • Keeping Faith with Haiti’s Orphans
  • Keeping Marriage Strong in the Challenges of a Tough Adoption
  • Microcredit Projects to Help the Local Church and Christian Families Care for Orphans
  • The Plight of the Trafficked Orphan
  • Preaching toward a Culture of Adoption and Orphan Care
  • Street Children in America
  • Wrapping around Adoptive and Foster Families

LUNCH SESSIONS  (Thursday, May 12th, 12:45pm – 1:45pm)

  • International Adoption 2011:  Challenges, Changes, and Difficult Questions
  • Mentoring America’s Fatherless
  • Wisdom from Indigenous Leaders

BREAKOUT SESSIONS II  (Thursday, May 12th, 2:00pm – 3:00pm)

  • 2011′s Top Orphan and Adoption Related Legislation
  • Attachment and Trauma I   (available for Hague credit)
  • Building Church Orphan Ministries 201: Adoption Ministry
  • Building Church Orphan Ministries 201: Foster Care
  • Building Church Orphan Ministries 201: Global Orphan Care
  • Creative Fundraising for Your Adoption
  • Encouraging and Supporting Indigenous National Adoption Movements
  • Equipping Churches for Adoption Disruption Situations
  • Low Cost, Big Reach:  Harnessing New Media to Grow Ministry Impact
  • Poverty’s Impact on Children and Effective Local Church Response
  • Reflections from Adoptive Families
  • Standards of Excellence in Short Term Missions
  • The Church’s Response to Street Children

BREAKOUT SESSIONS III  (Thursday, May 12th, 4:00pm – 5:00pm)

  • Adopting the Deaf Child
  • Adoption Reworked: Orphan Care Through the Rediscovery of Abba Father
  • Attachment and Trauma II   (available for Hague credit)
  • Engaging Church Leadership
  • Grownup Orphans: Self-Sufficiency in International Settings
  • How to Launch a Church Adoption Fund & Other Funding Solutions
  • Keeping Your Ministry Above Reproach
  • Street Children around the World
  • Surviving & Thriving as a Foster or Adoptive Family
  • The Power of Partnership: Engaging the Local Church to Provide Orphan Care in Africa and Beyond
  • Understanding HIV/AIDS and the Orphan
  • Youth Reaching Youth

BREAKOUT SESSIONS IV  (Friday, May 13th, 11:00am – 12:00pm)

  • Building A Strong Couples’ Ministry for Foster and Adoptive Families
  • Caring for Siblings
  • Building Church Orphan Ministries 101:  Launching an Orphan Ministry in Your Church (REPEATED)
  • Depression after Adoption (NOTE:  This session is not included in Hague requirements. However, many agencies may count it toward your adoption training hours.  (Please check with your agency.) A syllabus will be provided at the session.)
  • Engaging Youth & College Students for Orphan Ministry
  • Getting There From Here: Strategic Plans that Learn
  • Helping Without Hurting I
  • Now What? Helping Children Aging out of Foster Care
  • Pastoral Leadership and Adoption-Related Crises
  • Practical Realities of Parenting Children from Hard Places
  • Raising Children with a Heart for Orphans
  • The Crossroads of Human Trafficking and the Orphan Crisis
  • The Power of Orphan Sunday:  Stories to Inspire and Practical Ideas for Events

LUNCH SESSIONS  (Friday, May 13th, 12:45pm – 1:45pm)

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BREAKOUT SESSIONS V  (Friday, May 13th, 2:00pm – 3:00pm)

  • “Help!  My Church Isn’t Interested!” and Other Tough Situations:   Practical Helps for Real Churches in the Real World
  • Advocacy and the Arts
  • Advocating as a Busy Mom
  • Becoming a Multicultural/Multiracial Family I (available for Hague credit)
  • Foster to Adopt
  • Fueling the Mission: Planning Effective Fundraising Events
  • Growing God’s Heart for the Orphan in Kid’s Ministries
  • Help Wanted: Providing Real Support, Help and Answers for Families in the Adoption Process
  • Helping Without Hurting II
  • Journeys of Faith: U.S. Churches and Their African Partners Share Inspirational Orphan Care Stories and Lessons Learned about Partnership
  • Pastoral Ministry and Cross-Ethnic Adoption
  • Tools and Resources for Families and Church Ministries
  • Working Together: The Benefits of Regional Church Alliances for Orphan Ministry

BREAKOUT SESSIONS VI  (Friday, May 13th, 3:15pm – 4:15pm)

  • Becoming a Multicultural/Multiracial Family II (available for Hague credit)
  • Building Positive Relationship with the Government Foster System
  • Creative Advocacy: Training Storytellers that Change the World
  • Fueling the Mission: Major Gifts for Small Ministries
  • Heartwork: A Work for All Ages
  • Holistic, Church-Centered Economic Development Ministries
  • Home-Based Care of Orphans in Developing Nations
  • Hot Topics and Hard Issues: A Discussion with Global Orphan Care Veterans
  • Men and the Cause of the Fatherless
  • Spiritually Preparing Your Church to Care for the Orphan
  • Straight Talk about Disruption
  • Supporting Families in the Post-Placement Journey
  • The Church as an Alternative to the Foster System