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REGISTER NOW!
Join Us for Our 10th Annual
Concerned Persons for
Adoption (CPFA)
Family Conference
For Youth Ages 8-16 and Their
Parents/Caregivers
Saturday, October 19, 2024:
9:00 AM – 2:00 PM
(Doors
open at 8:30 AM for registration and light breakfast)
First Presbyterian Church
of Whippany
494 Route 10 West,
Whippany, NJ 07981
Our half-day
series of workshops is open to pre-adoptive parents, adoptive parents, foster
parents, foster children, and adoptees.
Please click the link below for the Family Conference registartion and information flyer:
Please click on the link below for the Conference Workshop Descriptions flyer below:
Space is limited so please register early!
FREE for current CPFA members, $25 fee per family for non-members.*
This fee will entitle your family to a
year of CPFA membership.
*The conference includes a continental
breakfast. A light lunch/networking session will be offered at the end of the
workshops to meet and speak with professionals and other parents and adoptees
on a more intimate level.
A complementary pizza lunch will be offered. For more information, please
contact
Michelle Mulhern, Conference Coordinator
at 201-400-4465 or [email protected]
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A big Thank you to all who attended the
CPFA Summer Family Picnic on
Saturday,
July 27th
It was a beautiful day to be at the beach!
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CPFA is proud to announce
the
2024 Lynne Witkin Scholarship Recipient
Congratulations
to Emily Perry!
We
are delighted to present the 2024 Lynne Witkin/CPFA Scholarship to Emily Perry.
Emily begins her MSW program at Rutgers University this summer, with a
concentration on families, children, and adolescents. She worked as the lead
teacher in a daycare while attending community college before transferring to
Rutgers and majoring in Social Work. During her studies, Emily has worked in a
variety of Social Work groups and had her interest in adoption fueled by a
study abroad program in Romania.
She is excited to continue her education in
the field of Social Work and to work towards a career in the critical areas of
adoption and child welfare. She also hopes to become an adoptive or foster
parent herself one day. Her desire “to be a light in a child’s darkness” motivates
her, in all aspects of her life, to strive for a world in which all children
experience love and acceptance in their homes. Please join us in congratulating
Emily and wishing her well!
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