Support Group
Sun, Feb 22
|Coast Hills Church
Allison Davis Maxon, M.S., LMFT, will share from her expertise as a nationally recognized expert in child welfare and mental health specializing in Attachment, Developmental Trauma and Permanency/Adoption. Dinner will be served and a program for children and teens will be provided. RSVPs required.
Time & Location
Feb 22, 2026, 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Coast Hills Church, 5 Pursuit, Aliso Viejo, Ca, 92656
About
Allison Davis Maxon, M.S., LMFT is a nationally recognized expert in the fields of child welfare and children’s mental health specializing in Attachment, Developmental Trauma and Permanency/Adoption. She is the Executive Director of the National Center on Adoption and Permanency and was the foster care consultant for the Paramount Pictures movie Instant Family. Allison was honored in 2017 with the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute ‘Angels in Adoption’ award and is the co-author of Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency: A Guide to Promoting Understanding and Healing in Adoption, Foster Care, Kinship Families and Third Party Reproduction, Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2019.
Pizza and childcare will be provided for children ages 0-12.
Pizza and games will be provided for teens.
This is a FREE event for families providing care for children throuth foster care, adoption, guardianship, and kinship placements.