MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
NFAPA has some wonderful workshops with excellent trainers coming up in the next few months. Look under the Education/Training tab for workshops available in your area.
We are bringing in some national speakers for several of the workshops.
Beth Thomas's workshop is
August 4, 2012 in Gretna
Beth Thomas, once labeled the “Child of Rage” by HBO, is now a Neonatal Intensive Care Nurse. She was also nominated and selected as a top finalist for the 2008 and 2009 Mountain West Nurse of the Year Award and was the winner for 2010 Mountain West Nurse of the Year Award in Mentoring. She is no longer a child of rage but a phenomenal woman. Beth knows what it is like to be an angry, defiant, destructive child. She once was one. She has unique insights into the mind of a challenging child with Attachment Disorder. Her life of survival and victory brings hope and understanding to parents and professionals working to heal a wounded child. She shares her experience and wisdom with love and laughter.
Beth gives a deeper understanding of Reactive Attachment Disorder from the inside out. She shares effective tools to make a difference with challenging children. Most of all she gives hope in a hopeless exhausting situation, empowering parents with a positive vision for their child’s future.
Click HERE for registration form.
Additional training opportuntities listed on our calendar and under the training tab. Please contact NFAPA if you have any questions.
The Fundraiser event we had with NFAPA & NFFC was a huge success. Thank you all for attending!
Ashley Rhodes-Courter, author of "Three Little Words",
spoke at the luncheon on May 2nd at the Metropolitan Communty College, Fort Omaha Campus Swanson Conference Center.
If you have not had a chance to read her book, we have a couple of copies at the office that can be borrowed. They are also available on line. We are still collecting donations! Contact NFAPA at nfapaevents@windstream.net . We hope to see you at a future event.
Brian Arnold
Branson Type Shows
With
Brian Arnold America's one Handed Pianist
July 7, 2012 (tentatively)
Lexington, Nebraska
(Possible Talents)
Voices of Glory (3 young kids having won runner up on America Has Talent)
16 year old daughter of Brian Arnold – Kerrigan – singer and songwriter
Other talent from time to time
The Brian Arnold Ministries, operated by Betty Hastings in Tennessee, is proud to announce that there is a new direction that Brian Arnold of Branson, Missouri has decided to take. It is with a passion and wanting to help foster families and children in care, that they have put together a fundraiser for various states and very proud to include Nebraska in the new undertaking.
A Branson show is coming to Lexington, Nebraska on July 7, 2012. Brian is bringing talent from various areas such as a group of sibling teens, Voices of Glory, who were runners in the America’s Got Talent show, his 16 year old daughter who not only sings but writes most of her own songs, his adult step daughter, and many other artists from time to time, with comedy, music and not to leave out, Brian Arnold, America’s one handed pianist, singing and playing the keyboard with one hand.
It will be a night of fun, and music but most of all a percentage of the tickets will be given to the children in care in Nebraska. The most amazing part of all of this is that Brian Arnold and his group will be responsible for all expenses and only ask that the foster parents in the area where the show is to be held, will help spread the word and sell tickets.
It will not only be an enjoyable event, where foster/adoptive kids get in free, but we hope to raise moneys to leave in the area for the kids’ benefit when the show is over.
We know you’ll want to be involved and more information will be coming later.
A website to be established set up for Branson Shows to be: www.GuessWhoIsComingToTown.com otherwise contact Betty Hastings at bettyh@areneas.net