Introducing….

CENTERING CONNECTIONS PROGRAM

Partnerships for Permanence (P4P) has developed multiple educational training series to raise community awareness, by increasing foster care/adoption and intercultural competence. We want to partner with foster and adoptive individuals or families, child welfare agencies, faith-based community members to increase awareness and develop champions for child welfare reform.

The current climate has shed light unto systemic racism and the disparities within the child welfare system. There is a disproportionate (increased) number of families from communities of color that are experiencing family disruptions/separation due to economic and social instability.

We want to:

• spark meaningful conversations about family experiences within the child welfare system, by providing educational training opportunities to discuss the intersectionality of race and family. 

• train families and professionals to better understand how to advocate for children and youth within the child welfare system and;

• develop transformational tools and assessments for how your community/organization can promote and attend to the well-being of children in the child welfare system.

How do you keep the focus on the children, while changing lives and transforming the system? We have developed an exciting program/training session/curriculum to help you “Put Children at the Center of Your Organization/Community and Change The System in the Process.”

What we offer…

For over 10 years, P4P has facilitated child welfare trainings and trained thousands of families, professionals, and other stakeholders. We are excited to expand our outreach efforts with our newest program Centering Connections Program (CCP).

Training Approach 

• We avoid the cookie-cutter approach

• We prepare transformative, guided discussions, and assessments

• We tailor each training curriculum to draw on our professional expertise and personal experience

• We provide training information based on experiential learning tools and strategies.

• We are experts at facilitating meaningful conversations about race and family 

• We champion causes that improve child well-being in your community or organization 

Program Goals

Our online seminars can accomplish many goals for participants and organizations. We hope to:

• Educate and Enlighten individuals, communities, & foster and adoptive families.

• Train and Develop community members as champions for family preservation, permanency, and intercultural awareness.

• Empower people to hold meaningful and transformational conversations.

• Rebuild the idea of race and family through community assessments and reflections.

  
  OUR TRAINING TEAM

  Why we are experts:

  Many people who have participated in Partnerships for Permanence (P4P) online seminars shared that P4P training is “compelling and transformational.” We believe that “every child and young person deserves to have a family that is a partner and champion for them.” What is our story of this work and what makes us unique as training experts?
  

  
  P4P Expert Trainers

  Lola D. Adebara, M.A - expertise in child welfare include: statewide training consultant for public and private agencies, former guardian ad litem, family and juvenile court advocate for foster and adoptive youth, and direct service practitioner specializing in youth aging-out of foster care for almost 20 years. She is also a seasoned professional with lived experience.

  Lola is a child welfare professional and has trained thousands of youth, families, and professionals on foster care and adoption related issues. Her expert training topics include: Transracial and Transcultural parenting, How to Achieve Permanency, Supporting Foster Youth Transitioning into Adulthood, Becoming an Advocate for Youth in the Child Welfare System, and many more.
  

  Sally Ankerfelt, M.Div - passion for working with adoptive families allows her to serve as a consultant for Partnerships for Permanence. Working with the P4P Team is both personal and professional for Sally, since she has three children through adoption. She is a certified coach who co-founded GIFT Family Services and recently founded Renew Family Coaching.
  

  Sally holds a certificate of Trauma Studies from the University of Minnesota, which greatly informs her work. Her experience as a Lutheran pastor for over 29 years has given her many opportunities to serve people and organizations as they seek to change and grow. 

P4P Webinar Series TRAINING TOPICS

Web seminars (more often referred to as “webinars”) are a form of collaborative online sessions. P4P’s Web Seminars are made possible by the talent and work ethic of our digitally inclined youth leaders and training consultants, ever striving to ensure we can meet our partners and clients wherever the need arises. Our process is simple - you select a training topic from the list of webinars available, you order that webinar, and within 24-hours we send you a secured and time-sensitive link to the webinar you ordered. Just remember, the video is for your eyes, and your eyes only.

Want to see a list of our available webinar topics? Click button below for a comprehensive list of P4P Webinars.