Coding Tips for Your Pediatrician by the American Academy of Pediatricians

Coding tips for evaluations involving screening and anticipatory guidance related to trauma and other mental health/developmental concerns.

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NEW WEBINAR: Attending to Needs, Connecting for Life: Dr. Purvis on Attachment

Thursday, February 4, 2016, 7:00 PM CT  

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Join us as Dr. Karyn Purvis discusses her latest research surrounding attachment and connecting with children who have experienced a tough beginning in life.

With her naturally warm style, Dr. Purvis will share insights to help us better understand and connect with each other.

She will provide practical tips to building a foundation of love, support and security to help your family thrive.
Specific topics include:

• Connecting principles for attachment needs
• Techniques to connect with your child at different developmental stages
• Correcting principles to disarm fear-based behaviors

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Creating A Family: Attachment Podcasts for you!

Attachment is the process of of forming emotional bonds between parent and child. For healthy emotional development throughout life, the child must attach to her parents, but it is just as true that the parent has to attach to the child. Attachment is not necessarily automatic with children adopted past infancy, but attachment can be taught and learned, and there are activities and attachment parenting techniques that can help both children and parents bond.

Creating a Family has extensive resources on attachment in adoption. A few we think you will find particularly helpful are:

• The Connected Child: Creating Attachment in Adopted Children (1 hr radio interview with Dr. Karyn Purvis)
• Attachment in Adoption is a Two Way Street (blog)
• Building the Bonds of Attachment with Adopted Children (1hr radio interview with Dr. Dan Hughes)
• Creating Attachment with Your Adopted Child in the 1st Year (1 hr radio interview with Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao)

Coding Tips for Pediatricians When Screening Trauma Related Concerns

The following are coding tips for evaluations involving  screening and anticipatory guidance related to trauma and other mental health/developmental concerns.

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New Webinar! Expectations and Realities: Parenting an Adopted Child with Special Needs

Thursday, January 17, 2013 
7:00PM - 8:00PM 
Central Time
Q&A: 8:00PM

We need your input!  If you are the adoptive parent of a special needs child, let us know the biggest difference between what you expected and what you are experiencing. 

Then, join us for a webinar to discuss what you told us!

Guest Speaker: Martha Osborne, founder of RainbowKids.com, adopted person and adoptive mom.

Martha will discuss YOUR top 3 disconnects between the expectations and realities of raising a child with special needs. 

She will also give examples of how families have handled these differences and resources to help. Click here to let us know what you'd like Martha to discuss.

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Food For Thought: The Impact of Poor Nutrition in Early Development

Dr. Dana Johnson, renowned international adoption physician, shares the results of his research on the common physical, cognitive and behavioral impacts of poor nutrition on internationally adopted children.

Take Food For Thought for only $10!

5th Annual Report to Congress on Public Law 109-95, The Assistance for Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children in Developing Countries Act of 2005

The Fifth Annual Report to Congress on Public Law 109-95, The Assistance for Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children in Developing Countries Act of 2005 has been released.  The report highlights continued efforts made by the U.S. Government to improve coordination on behalf of vulnerable children. In keeping with the PL 109-95 mandate to coordinate and disseminate evidence-based best practices, the Secretariat is making strides to firmly and strategically integrate children's developmental protection within health, education and other sectors, thereby  laying the groundwork for coordinated interventions that more effectively address the complex nature of children's risks and opportunities. The report also captures key outputs from the recent U.S. Government Evidence Based Summit on Protecting Children outside of Family Care. The full report can be found here (PDF).

Grandmother's Smile Project for Bulgarian Orphanages Makes a Big Impact on Little Lives

Vesta, along with your help, is initiating a campaign in support of long term implementation of Bulgaria's "A Grandmother's Love Project," to ensure its sustainability for a period of one to three years. We need your help in sustaining this project. The impact on a child's well being and development is significantly improved when a child receives this individualized attention from a "Grandmother".

Download "A Grandmother's Love Project" (PDF)