Location: Grand Valley State University - downtown

Details: Stacy Manning is a Post-Adoption Family Coach and Educator.  She and her husband are raising their six teenaged children; three adopted and three biological.  In hopes of helping more families, Stacy created Hope Connections, LLC, in 2011.  She specializes in empowering parents to be the healing force their child needs with education, support and tools to use in everyday life.  She is an exciting speaker that relates to her audience not only from her innate understanding of how to work with hurt children and her vast knowledge base, but also from her passionate vow to never let any family feel alone on the adoption journey.  Her belief is that adoptive parents are their child's best chance at healing and her goal is to teach them how to be intentional parents who are armed with the specific knowledge and tools they need to best help their child.  Stacy's experiences have provided her the opportunity to fine tune a powerful formula that has offered many adoptive families the peace and healing for which they are searching.  She shares her formula for success through her book Adoptive Parent Intentional Parent:  A Formula for Building and Maintaining Your Child's Safety Net.  This innovative new formula combines removing hurdles, acquiring a new clarity, "in the moment" tools and techniques that work and a plan to nurture hope for the long arduous journey to a place we call secure attachment.  This formula is like nothing you have tried before.  You don't have to do it alone -- there is hope! (no childcare will be provided for, and a $10 per person charge includes lunch and free parking) RSVP TODAY at registration@afsn.org