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September - National Kinship Care Month
NJ's Kinship Navigator Program
DC&P Kinship Care Information
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November - National Adoption Month
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Join us for the next Can We Talk
Part 3 of
a 3-part series on Identity & Transracial Adoption
CPFA’s
next Can We Talk?
Friday,
September 18, 8-9:30 pm, EDT via Zoom
Search
and Reunion
Join April
Dinwoodie - speaker, advocate, and transracially adopted person and Amy
Strickler -LMSW, LSW, adoptive mom and adopted person for a virtual
presentation and open discussion about search and reunion of adopted persons
and biological family.
RSVP by September 17, 2026
About the Presenters
April Dinwoodie is a speaker, advocate, and transracially adopted
person dedicated to advancing conversations on adoption, identity, and
belonging. She is the Founder of AdoptMent and
Executive Director of Transracial Journeys, where she works with families and
organizations to support healthy identity development and more inclusive
practices. April is
also the host of the podcast Born in June, Raised in April.
Amy Strickler, LMSW, LSW, is a social work educator and adoption
advocate with over 30 years of child welfare experience. She is an Assistant
Professor of Teaching and Assistant Director of the Intensive Weekend MSW
Program at Rutgers School of Social Work. Amy is also an adoptive mom and
adopted person in reunion with her biological family, bringing both
professional and personal experience to her work in adoption advocacy.
Below is the PDF file for the event:
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Come join us for the next CPFANJ Book Club meeting
Thursday, October 22nd
7:00-9:00 pm, Panara Bread
187 Columbia Tpke, Florham Park, NJ 07932
Please join us for a lively and thought-provoking discussion on “Little” by Edward Carey. All Book Club meetings are held in-person.
An amazing achievement. . . A compulsively readable novel,
so canny and weird and surfeited with the reality of human capacity and
ingenuity that I am stymied for comparison. Dickens and David Lynch? Defoe
meets Margaret Atwood? Judge for yourself." —Gregory Maguire, New York
Times-bestselling author of Wicked
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SAVE THE DATE!
Saturday, November 14, 2026, 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Join Us for our 12th Annual
Concerned Persons for Adoption (CPFA) Family Conference
For
Youth ages 8-16 and their Parents/Caregivers
(Doors open at 8:30 AM for registration and light breakfast)
New Conference Location!
Immaculate Conception School
41 Mountain Avenue
Somerville, NJ 08876
Our half-day series of workshops are open to pre-adoptive parents,
adoptive parents,
foster parents, foster children and adoptees.
Registration and workshop details coming soon.
FREE for current CPFA
members, $25 fee per family for non-members.
This fee will entitle your family to a year of CPFA membership.
For more information, please
contact Michelle Mulhern, Conference Coordinator
at 201-400-4465 or [email protected]
Please see conference flyer below:
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Thank you to those who attended the annual CPFA Summer Family Picnic on Saturday, July 25th.
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Thank you to all who enjoyed the Somerset Patriots Game and fireworks after the game.