Join us on September 18, 2010 at Grace Chapel, 8505 S. Valley Highway, Englewood, CO 80112. You’ll hear more about the kids who are waiting, the process of adoption from foster care and ways to support adoptive familes. In addition, agency and county representatives will be on site to answer questions and help you get started.

To register for this event, go to: www.icareaboutorphans.org

Registration only for Official Project 1.27 Families.

Adopt Core (ACORE) training meets the core competencies outlined in the Colorado Department of Human Services Child Welfare Practice Handbook. ACORE is taught by competent instructors in a church setting from a Christian perspective. The class covers the following:

•The Placement Process
•Administrative and Legal Issues
•Parenting and Family Issues
•Child Maltreatment
•Key Concepts of Growth and Development
•Individual Differences-Ethnicity and Culture
•Discipline
•The Importance of Creating a Team Approach
•Working with the Biological Family
•Effects of being in a Foster or Adoptive Family

If you are a Project 1.27 family, register for our classes at http://project127.eventbrite.com. The password is in the packet you received when you joined Project 1.27. If you need the password, please contact us.

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Orphan Care Ministry Leader (OCML) Training is for lay church leaders and pastors interested in starting an Orphan Care Ministry in the local church. The course helps to uncover the vision and mission of the ministry, how to communicate to the church staff and congregation, planning ideas and format, how to recruit and train volunteers and how to resource the ministry. The class is 4 hours and will give you an opportunity to meet other leaders interested in caring for the orphan and the parents that bring them into their homes.

The cost is $30.00 per kit (couples can share)

This training will be held at Grace Place, 250 Mountain Avenue, Berthoud Colorado 80513 (970) 532.9886
There will be no childcare available.

In the article Churches Adopt Adoption, Christianity Today discusses how Christians are working to help families who adopt. Project 1.27′s work in Colorado is noted.