Transracial Parenting Savvy!
April 5, 2010
Join psychologist Doris Landry and author Jean MacLeod at Adoption Associates’ Farmington Hills office as they offer practical information and parent support for adoptive moms and dads. Learn, discuss and problem solve at this multi-week training course covering the impact of race and adoption on parent-child relationships. This course will provide identity building tools, prepare families for racism and increase multi-cultural awareness.
Topics
Week 1 — Beyond Color: The Impact of Race on Your Parent-Child Relationship
Week 2 — Building an Identity: Tools for You & Your Child
Week 3 — SUPPORT: Preparing Your Family for Racism
Dates and Times
Three Thursdays in May (6th, 13th, 20th) — 7-9 pm
Location
Adoption Associates, 26105 Orchard Lake Rd., Farmington Hills
Cost
$75 for all three workshops; $65 each if two attendees register together.
Registration
Download the flier and mail by April 25, 2010 to Doris A. Landry, 34441 Eight Mile, Suite 108, Livonia, MI 48152.
Presenter Biographies
Doris A. Landry, M.S., L.L.P
Doris Landry is a psychologist with a master’s degree in clinical psychology. She has been treating internationally and domestically adopted children and their families since 1988 and specializes in wraparound services for adoption and attachment issues. Doris is the author of Before I Met You: A Therapeutic Pre-Adoptive Narrative, and is a contributor to the 2nd revised version of Theraplay: Helping Parents and Children Build Better Relationships Through Attachment-Based Play, and to Adoption Parenting: Creating a Toolbox, Building Connections. A former ATTACh Board member, Doris maintains a private practice in Livonia and presents workshops for adoptive parents and professionals. Doris’s web site is http://www.attachmentcoalition.org/.
Jean MacLeod
Jean MacLeod, author of At Home in This World and contributing co-editor of Adoption Parenting: Creating a Toolbox, Building Connections, is a free-lance writer who has been published in Adoptive Families Magazine, Adoption TODAY Magazine and in the adoption essay books Passage to the Heart and Finding Happiness. Jean developed and facilitated a series of parent education workshops on beginning attachment therapy, homeland trips, and tween-teen issues, and has presented her workshops at the Colorado Heritage Camps, the Midwest Adoption Conference, the KAAN Conference, and for adoption support groups across the USA, Canada and England. Jean is the mother of three daughters, two of whom were adopted from China. Jean’s web site is http://adoptiontoolbox.com/.
