Montana's Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Department of Human Resources Development (CSKT DHRD) is hosting a training session for foster parents, adoptive parents and kinship caregivers September 24 at the KwaTaqNuk Resort.

The topic of the training is therapeutic parenting, and the session will be led by author and licensed clinical professional counselor Kate Cremer-Vogel. A Sept. 17 article by Lailani Upham of the Char-Koosta News provided the following information about the training:

Vogel wrote What Every Adoptive Parent Needs to Know: Healing Your Childs Wounded Heart, a compelling real-life story of a family struggling to overcome the effects of early abandonment and neglect on their adopted children. The book addresses essential therapeutic keys that ultimately brought the family hope and healing.

Ms. Cremer-Vogel uses an empathic approach to help parents bond deeper with their adopted/foster child. Cremer-Vogel believes the primary parent and child relationship is vital to the childs development and complete brain growth. In her training she teaches relational therapy to lead the parent and child into a more meaningful connection and understanding, deepening their mutual trust.

The parenting training is offered to foster parents but open to all parents, social workers and child care providers and teachers that would like to gain more understanding and learn how to effectively reach children.

For more information call CSKT Foster Care Licensor Shaunda Albert at (406) 675-2700, extension 1087.

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The words "Heart Gallery" may bring to mind photographs of arteries and valves and blood coursing through veins. But it's actually a very touching collection of photographs of children who are waiting to be adopted. There are Heart Gallery displays all over the country, one of the newest being in Michigan.

"The Michigan Heart Gallery features professional photos of some of Michigan's waiting children, who come from various regions of the state. Recruitment activities such as the Heart Gallery remind people that there are many children in Michigan who are waiting to be adopted."

The photographs in the Heart Gallery were taken by professional photographers who donated their time, and include photos of some adoptive families as well. The exhibit runs from June 7th through the 29th at Art in the Loft gallery. Read more at Michigan.gov.

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