This article is from NACAC’s Starting and Nurturing Adoptive Parent Groups: A Guide for Leaders. Download the guide All leaders want to run successful, productive group meetings. Yet there isn’t a leader who hasn’t wondered: What’s wrong with our meetings lately? How can I move the discussion along? How can I help quiet members speak… More
This webinar discusses creative solutions for a support group that is struggling. We offer suggestions and strategies to keep members coming, create connectedness, build community. listen to the group’s needs, and laugh together. Presented by Diane Martin-Hushman, NACAC’s parent group coordinator (retired), who has helped create and enhance hundreds of support groups around the US… More
Are you new to support group leadership? Is your group in need of new energy? Or are you ready to take the next step in your development? If so, this webinar on starting, nurturing, and maintaining support groups for adoptive, foster, and kinship families will provide you with tools and ideas. Presented by Kim Stevens… More
This article is from NACAC’s Starting and Nurturing Adoptive Parent Groups: A Guide for Leaders. Download the guide A group is a living organism with a life of its own. Groups can become sick and die. They can heal and be renewed. They can even grow and mature to become something different than they started… More
Motivations to Volunteer A parent group is comprised of volunteers. If your group doesn’t fit this description, perhaps you haven’t asked individuals to help. Extended family members or friends as well as previous participants are some of the contacts that you should consider. Did you know that most people will volunteer if asked to help… More
After interacting with many group leaders, we understand that many parent groups miss the opportunity to use evaluation as a tool for learning. While the most frequently evaluated activity is a specific event, many groups do not have a way to collect information about the effectiveness of their work. This short discussion is designed to… More
Compassion fatigue (also known as vicarious trauma or secondary traumatic stress) can happen to anyone who works in the business of caring for others—be it in one’s professional life or personal life. There is sometimes a stigma attached to taking care of ourselves, as we are often taught to “take care of others first” from… More