2007: Making Dreams Come True
The theme of our 18th annual statewide conference, Making Dreams Come True, speaks to the hopes, vision, and wishes of all parties to an adoption and those who impact their lives—waiting children; prospective parents; adoptive and foster parents who want the very best outcomes for their children; the children’s hopes for the present and future; agency, state, legal, and other helping professionals who wish to make good decisions to benefit children and families and achieve professional goals. Our plenary speakers and the workshop presenters were selected because the knowledge and expertise they will share can help make dreams come true. Additional features included a half-day Institute on Thursday afternoon presented by Michael Sanders, a specialist in effective recruitment and retention of adoptive and foster parents and a showing of “Unconditional Commitment: The Only Love that Matters…to Teens,” a new film produced by You Gotta Believe!.
