Description: Sponsored by Families And Children Together (F.A.C.T.) and The University of Maine Center on Aging, this seminar will give clinicians more insight into the highly complex issues that Grandfamilies encounter and provide ideas on how to treat these families successfully. Click here to view the Seminar brochure for more information and registration materials.

This seminar will offer experienced guidance in various clinical issues, including attachment, behavioral problems, kinship complexities, divided loyalties, and issues of loss and grief.

Grandfamily members and F.A.C.T. staff will also offer insight and experience.

Participants who attend this session will:

• Gain a deeper understanding of the complexities of living with multi-generational families.
• Understand the stressors each family member lives with on a daily basis.
• Gain insight into the complexities of the web of guilt, shame, protectiveness, loss, and love with which Grandfamilies cope.
• Be given specific ideas for successfully treating Grandfamilies and the children they are raising.

Date, Time and Location:

Orono

March 29, 2012

8:30 am Registration & Check In

9:00 am - 4:30 pm Program

Buchanan Alumni Center

University of Maine

Presenter: Virginia Holmes, PhD, LCPC

Cost: $40, which includes training materials and lunch. Registration limited to 25 participants per session. Confirmation and directions will be sent upon receipt of payment. Participants will receive 6 credit hours.

For more information, contact:

Tracy Cooley at F.A.C.T. 

Phone: 1-866-298-0896

E-mail: tcooley@mainekids-kin.org

Training seminar funded by the Maine Kinship Connections Project through Fostering Connections Grant #UM-S841 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.