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.
Dr. Liz DeBetta, founder and creator of Migrating Toward Wholeness© is an adoptee and independent scholar-artist-activist committed to changing systems and helping people navigate trauma through creative processes. She believes that stories are powerful change agents and when we write them and share them we connect and heal. Being able to question, reject, and rewrite […]
This online event in partnership with GiGi's Playhouse Monona is an introduction to navigating supports and services for families with children ages birth to 14. Learn about Medicaid, Katie Beckett, children’s long-term support programs, private insurance, appealing insurance denials, and more. REGISTER
Join the Grandfamilies & Kinship Support Network for the rollout of a new practical toolkit designed to help K-12 education stakeholders around the country. “Five Actions for Supporting Students and Caregivers in Kinship/Grandfamilies” is designed to do just that – provide you with five concrete sets of actions that you take in your community to […]
This one-hour webinar will provide a general overview of the universal and on-site technical assistance that the Center will be providing for Tribal Nations. Tribal child welfare leaders will gain an overall understanding of the Center and how it will partner with Tribal Nations to enhance the services that they provide for families who are […]
This one-hour webinar will provide a general overview of the universal and on-site technical assistance that the Center will be providing for Tribal Nations. Tribal child welfare leaders will gain an overall understanding of the Center and how it will partner with Tribal Nations to enhance the services that they provide for families who are […]
Our BirthmomsConnect support calls are held via Zoom and available to anyone who has given birth to a child, anywhere, no matter their affiliation with On Your Feet Foundation or when they placed. The only requirements to participate are as follows: You gave birth to and placed a child for adoption, and your placement is final. You […]
Come join the WiFCC for an afternoon of ice skating! The event will take place at Howard Commons Activities Complex in Howard, WI. Our group will have access to the hill from 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. It is open to adoptive, foster, guardianship, relative caregivers, and reunified families and individuals. Please note: Arrive at […]
The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) is pleased to present the Conversations on Race, Equity, and Inclusion training series. The six-part training series offers an opportunity for social work and human service professionals to explore the following topics: Session 1) Being Color Brave and Culturally Humble Session 2) Implicit Bias and Different Types of […]
Foster, adoptive, guardianship, kinship, and reunified caregivers, join us to connect, learn, and share! Join the Wisconsin Family Connections Center for this opportunity to meet with other caregivers and make connections! We will meet at The Gingerbread House in Muskego, WI. Each registrant will receive a food or drink purchase of up to $10. You […]
DIRFloortime is both a framework and an intervention that offers us an empowering, respectful, and optimistic lens for supporting development across the lifespan utilizing the power of relationships and playful interactions. It is a model that opens the possibilities for meaningful relationships through its' Developmental, Individual Differences and Relationship based lens. Presenters: Helen Groth is […]
