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Portland Groups:
Second Friday and Saturday of
the Month
Adoptive
Parent Training & Support
Group 7-9pm
Girls’
Group: 8 – 10 yrs. 9:30 -
11:00
Boys Group: 6-9 yrs. 12:00 -
1:30 Quarterly; with
parent's participation
Woodland
Groups: Third Friday and
Saturday of the Month
Same as Above
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Mary is a Licensed
Clinical Social Worker with over 30
years experience in child welfare,
specializing in early childhood
development, adoption, divorce, step
families, and relative adoptions. She is
a behavior consultant she provides
family support services for area
adoption agencies and provides
individual and group supervision for
licensure.
Mary has gained her best adoption
knowledge and experience from her 6
adopted children. Mary's children
are from Korea, Vietnam, India, and
African-Americanheritage. Mary has
gained wisdom through watching her
children struggle to crosscultural,
national, and family lines to create a
new lives for themselves. "The
parenting of any child is a life time
commitment that reaches into the next
generation, creating a safety net for
biracial grandchildren."
Her theoretical basis highlights
solution focused, strengths based, and
narrative or honoring of each person's
story. Her favorite way to work with
children is through play therapy, and
teaching play therapy to parents (filial
therapy). Her passion is to reach out to
adoptive families with realistic
coaching that helps build strong,
emotionally healthy children and happy,
energized parents.
