From Blow-Up to Bonding: SD Adoption Conference

Don't miss this opportunity to connect with other adoptive families and learn from the experts, Dr. Chaitra Wirta-Leiker, Dr. Kari Oyen and Cara DeHaan, as we explore how to develop better relationships with our children, even in times of struggle, through healthy attachment and discipline skills.

How can you turn moments of struggle into moments of connection? Discover how brain development, implicit memories, and the “6 F’s” (Fight, Flight, Freeze, Friend, Fidget, Flop) can influence your adoptive or foster child’s reactions to traditional methods of discipline, and develop
compassionate, creative, and effective strategies for limit-setting and consequences that simultaneously enhance healthy attachment patterns in the child-caregiver relationship. Tools to cope with common struggles will be addressed, including separation anxiety, transitions, homework, aggression, lying, stealing, hoarding, argumentativeness, and sleep anxiety.

Parents, caregivers, and all those who provide support are welcome.

Thursday, June 12, 2025
Registration begins at 9:30 AM
Conference begins promptly at 10:00 AM and concludes at 4:00 PM

Location:
Our Savior's Lutheran Church Gathering Place,
909 West 33rd Street, Sioux Falls

This conference is funded by the South Dakota Department of Social Services and hosted by LSS of South Dakota Adoption Services.

Register at AdoptionConference.LssSD.org

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• This Tuesday, 20th May, 11:30 pm, Adoptive Parent Support Group in Sioux Falls, South Dakota

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