Please join FCC North Texas in welcoming Deanne Brown and Becky Harding on Sunday, September 12 from 2 - 4 pm for a seminar and discussion on helping your adopted child successfully navigate the educational system. As both adoptive parents and teachers, Brown and Harding offer insight and perspective into the potential pitfalls adoptees can encounter in schools and tips and tools for dealing with them. Their presentation will include: finding the best school match for your family, communicating effectively with your child's teacher, teaching your child strategies for handling questions and situations about adoption and race, and learning ways parents can be effective advocates in their school and community.

Topics include:

• Identifying what the ideal school environment should look and feel like to both parents and students
• Learning how to build a relationship with your child's teacher
• Showing your child specific tools address adoption-related  issues that can arise
• Finding out how to be a positive advocate for social change
  

Please reserve your space for this seminar by Wednesday, September 8th by e-mailing us at president@fccnt.org with your name and the number of attendees.

Members are free and Non-member admission will be taken at the door.

If you have questions regarding this seminar, please contact Jennifer Chapman at (972) 672-4442 or president@fccnt.org.

 

Childcare Will Be Available

 

You've asked for it at past events, and now you've got it. Childcare will be available for the Adoption in Schools seminar. Pantego Bible Church will have childcare available to parents who pre-register with them for children ages 0 to 6th grade before their deadline. The cost is $5 per child.

The deadline for childcare reservationrequests in by Tuesday, September 7th.

However, childcare space is limited, so you should make your reservation as soon as possible. Please note that this service is provided by Pantego Bible Church, so contact them directly for any questions related to childcare or changes to your reservation.

To make a Childcare reservation:

Please e-mail requests to childcare@pantego.org have them include the following information:

• Names of parents

• Parent contact information, including e-mail and phone

• Number of children for whom care is requested

• Names and ages of children (including the grade if in school)

After making your childcare reservation, Carrie Clark, the Childcare Coordinator for Pantego Bible Church, will contact you with further instructions and any questions she may have.

 

When: Sunday, September 12th 2-4 pm	Where: Pantego Bible Church 8001 Anderson Blvd Ft. Worth, Texas 76120 Click here for directions.
Cost: Free - FCCNT members $5 per person - Non-members Online registration ends Thursday, Sept. 8th.
Please reserve your space for this seminar by Wednesday, September 8th by e-mailing us at president@fccnt.org with your name and the number of attendees. Members are free and Non-member admission will be taken at the door.

 

About Deanne Brown

Deanne Brown taught English in grades 10, 11, and 12 in Virginia for 5 years, then spent several years in youth ministry with high school and middle school aged kids. Later she returned to teaching when she moved to Austin, teaching 5th grade at Pease Elementary for 7 years while preparing to adopt her two daughters, Grace and Sarah. Since the summer of 2004, she has been a stay-at-home mom for her husband Russ, the girls, and several cats.

 

About Becky Harding

 

Becky Harding taught high school theatre, speech, debate, and English in Ohio for ten years. She then spent three years teaching in New York and south Florida before beginning a career as a middle school theatre arts educator at Covington and Clint Small middle schools. A former Austin ISD Teacher of the Year, she retired in 2002 to be a stay at home parent to her two daughters from China. She currently serves as President of Families with Children from China - Austin.