Welcome to our Calendar of Events!
This calendar includes opportunities for learning and connection from the Wisconsin Family Connections Center, the Coalition for Children, Youth & Families, and several other organizations across Wisconsin. (NOTE: Opportunities from the Wisconsin Family Connections Center are noted with a blue ribbon on the calendar below.)
–> Find training and event flyers here.
–> For a complete listing of Regional Events and Support Groups, please visit the Wisconsin Family Connections Center Eventbrite Page.
–> Find support group flyers here.
–> For information about Recorded Webinars, Upcoming Live Webinars, Courses, and Conferences, please visit the Champion Classrooms.
Events are added as information is made available to us. If you’d like to share an upcoming event with us, please contact us at info@wifamilyconnectionscenter.org.

Conscious Adoption: Navigating Estrangement
April 22 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
$1000Wondering why your relationship with the adoptee in your life changed so much? What happened?
The goals for this course include:
- Understanding estrangement and the range of its impact.
- Examining estrangement in the context of adoption
- Discerning how we have thought of adoption over time
- Considering how adoptees feel about adoption over time
- Examining how estrangement feels in isolation and in community
- Creating strategies for coping and healing
This course is for adoptive parents with adoptees 18 years or older.
Tuesdays (8-week course): April 22 – Jun 10
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm (CST) on Zoom
Cost: $1,000/household (up to 2 people)