Spence-Chapin is a non-profit organization established in the early 1900’s that provides holistic and compassionate counseling and adoption planning services to women and couples facing an unplanned pregnancy or who have recently given birth and are unsure about parenting. We offer cutting-edge continuing education programs and relevant, engaging, web-based, and in-person adoption and child welfare resources for medical professionals, counselors, social service advocates, and community members. Through our diverse and meaningful programming, we hope to equip professionals with the knowledge they need to help provide positive and healthy outcomes for the women and children we serve.
To register or learn more contact Talia Oren at [email protected] or 212-360-0245.
All our events are free to attend.
Unaddressed shame has destructive consequences for individuals, for families and for communities. Shame can cause and exacerbate depression, anxiety, addictions, criminal activity, aggression and codependent behavior. This FREE Continuing Education workshop hosted by Spence-Chapin in collaboration with Rutgers School of Social Work will define shame, explore its impact, and give an overview of the literature on the topic of shame, including…
For over the last century, Spence-Chapin has been providing services to women and children throughout New York and New Jersey, and we are excited to share that we recently became licensed by the Department of Child Safety to provide services in Arizona. We now have offices in Phoenix and Tucson and look forward to working with professionals throughout the state to provide birth parents, adoptive families, and their children with wraparound adoption services and post-placement support…
In Honor of National Adoption Awareness Month, we are offering this NEW webinar on Demystifying Open Adoption for our Social Work and Healthcare Partners.
Unaddressed shame has destructive consequences for individuals, for families and for communities. Shame can cause and exacerbate depression, anxiety, addictions, criminal activity, aggression and codependent behavior. This FREE Continuing Education workshop hosted by Spence-Chapin in collaboration with Rutgers School of Social Work will define shame, explore its impact, and give an overview of the literature on the topic of shame, including…
For over the last century, Spence-Chapin has been providing services to women and children throughout New York and New Jersey, and we are excited to share that we recently became licensed by the Department of Child Safety to provide services in Arizona. We now have offices in Phoenix and Tucson and look forward to working with professionals throughout the state to provide birth parents, adoptive families, and their children with wraparound adoption services and post-placement support…
In Honor of National Adoption Awareness Month, we are offering this NEW webinar on Demystifying Open Adoption for our Social Work and Healthcare Partners.
In the fall of 2022, the National Council for Adoption conducted an online survey for birth parents who had made an adoption plan in the US. During the same year, The National Opinion and Research Center at the University of Chicago in partnership with Spence-Chapin released their longitudinal study of birth mother clients who received services from Spence-Chapin between 2006 to 2020. Common themes emerged from those respective studies and were again echoed in some more recent interviews that Spence-Chapin conducted with previous birth mother clients…
For over the last century, Spence-Chapin has been providing services to women and children throughout New York and New Jersey, and we are excited to share that we recently became licensed by the Department of Child Safety to provide services in Arizona. We now have offices in Phoenix and Tucson and look forward to working with professionals throughout the state to provide birth parents, adoptive families, and their children with wraparound adoption services and post-placement support…
In honor of Social Work Month, we invite you to join Spence-Chapin for a FREE Continuing Education Workshop featuring training by Lori Schlosser, PhD, MSW, Rutgers School of Social Work.
Trauma affects everyone it touches. Working with trauma survivors and ongoing exposure to traumatic material puts professionals and their supervisors at risk for secondary traumatic stress (vicarious trauma), burnout, and compassion fatigue. These are serious occupational hazards that can increase liability and compromise effectiveness with clients—as well as impact the physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being of the professional.
This webinar provides professionals with easy-to-use, valid, and reliable tools for assessing and identifying signs of vicarious trauma and burnout in both their staff and themselves. The importance of self-care and its relationship to best practices and professional ethics is examined. A variety of physical, emotional, spiritual, and recreational self-care techniques that prevent and/or…
Since 1995, Spence-Chapin has found adoptive families for more than 550 children with medical and developmental challenges through our Special Needs Adoption Program. Join us for an intimate conversation with an adoptive family who will share their experience pursuing adoption through this unique program. …
For over the last century, Spence-Chapin has been providing services to women and children throughout New York and New Jersey, and we are excited to share that we recently became licensed by the Department of Child Safety to provide services in Arizona. We now have offices in Phoenix and Tucson and look forward to working with professionals throughout the state to provide birth parents, adoptive families, and their children with wraparound adoption services and post-placement support…
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