Jan. 5, 2011

Briar Cliff to Host Foster-Adoption Training

SIOUX CITY, Iowa – The Department of Social Work at Briar Cliff University will host an Iowa Foster and Adoptive Parent Association training program on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2011. Registration will begin at 8:30 a.m. in the Saint Clare Room in the Stark Student Center on campus.

The training will feature expert child therapist Marty Wallace, who will present “The World of Attachment, Trauma, and Bonding: Knowledge is the Key.” Wallace will cover basic information on attachment and trauma affecting children and offer therapeutic parenting strategies when moving children from a foster home to an adoptive home.

A licensed mental health counselor, Wallace specializes in innovative registered play therapy approaches, art therapy, filial techniques, sand tray therapy, theraplay techniques and attachment therapy. He is on the staff at the Creative Living Center in Rock Valley, Iowa.

A founding member of the Attachment Network of Iowa, Wallace is a member of the Association for Play Therapy, the Iowa Association for Play Therapy, the Theraplay Association, and the Association for Treatment and Training in the Attachment of Children.

Foster and adoptive parents may register for training by calling Stephanie Miles at the Iowa Foster and Adoptive Parent Association at 800-277-8145, ext. 1. Social work students may register for the training by emailing Heather Craig-Oldsen, BCU associate professor of social work and department chairperson, at heather.craig-oldsen@briarcliff.edu.

Briar Cliff University is a Catholic institution with an enrollment of more than 1,150 students from 29 states and 11 other countries. Students are educated in the Franciscan tradition of excellence in the liberal arts and career preparation in an environment of care, compassion and service. For more information, please visit briarcliff.edu.

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