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.
This session explores how adopted boys—particularly Black adopted boys—are often rendered invisible when adoption is understood as an endpoint rather than a lifelong experience. While stability and love are essential, they do not automatically address the layered identity, emotional, and belonging needs adopted boys carry as they grow into adolescence and adulthood. Drawing from his […]
Registration for this event is required on Eventbrite. Please join us for this new support group offered to parents who have recently reunified, or are in the process of reunifying (transitioning to reunification within the next month of the support group occurring). We will be meeting once every six weeks via Zoom at 7:00pm and […]
Registration for this event is required on Eventbrite. Attention adoptive, foster, guardianship, relative caregiver, and reunified families and individuals! Join the Wisconsin Family Connections Center for a family hockey day with the Admirals! The Admirals will take on the Manitoba Moose in this Sunday afternoon game. Each ticket will also include a $10 concession card […]
This group will have training opportunities, help and guidance with questions and concerns, and help to build relationships with others who are walking similar roads. Led by fellow foster parents. A time of encouragement, support, and community. Light refreshments and childcare will be provided. Please notify us if you will be utilizing childcare so we […]
Registration for this event is required on Eventbrite. Foster, adoptive, guardianship, kinship, and reunified caregivers, join the Wisconsin Family Connections Center at The Potter's Shed on Wednesday, March 4th from 5:30pm to 6:30pm for an evening of pottery and connection! Registration is required for this event. Contact Madeline at mcurry@cclse.org with any questions. Please note: […]
Registration for this event is required on Eventbrite. Calling all Wisconsin Family Connections Center parents/caregivers who are looking for a Night Out full of entertainment and laughs!!! Come join us as we jam with the NEW Dueling Pianos at The Cove in Lake Geneva. Doors open at 6:00 p.m., and the show runs from 7:00 […]
Registration for this event is required on Eventbrite. Please join WiFCC for a day at the waterpark! This event is open to all adoptive, guardianship, foster, kinship, and reunified families. Please note that if you attended this event this past June, you will be automatically put on a waitlist to ensure other families have a […]
A virtual support group for birth parents throughout Wisconsin. An online support group for birth parents who have placed a child for adoption. This group is open to all birth parents who have had a child placed for adoption, no matter what type of adoption or agency involved. Come ask your questions and meet others […]
Youth ages 13-17 who are part of an adoptive or guardianship family in Wisconsin About this event Join other teens of adoption or guardianship families for a live, video group session to socially connect and discuss topics related to challenges that arise in these family dynamics. This support group will be facilitated by Chelsey and […]
We know that relative care is the best option for children needing out-of -home care. We also know that caregiving can be difficult and isolating. This hybrid course gives voice to the authentic experiences, challenges, lessons learned, and successes of Wisconsin caregivers like you, as well as the loved ones who have had children in […]
