Name: Stronger Together Youth and Young Adult Peer Support Groups (in-person)
Start: 2025-09-30T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-30T19:30:00-04:00
Location: Formed Families Forward Office

August 2025
Welcoming the New School Year: Strategies for Foster, Adoptive and Kinship Family Success webinar

Featured August 13, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT

It's that time again for the kids to head back to school! This webinar addresses the unique challenges faced by formed families as they navigate new academic, social, and behavioral expectations and establish new relationships with educators and peers. Gain strategies for creating effective routines, managing anxiety, helping children regulate, and building effective working relationships […]
Building Resiliency webinar with WETA PBS Kids

Featured August 19, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT

Building Resiliency for Children WETA PBS Kids presents this virtual workshop to provide parents, caregivers and professionals with the tools to use children’s media to enhance literacy skills. Participants learn how to connect screen time to children’s literature and literacy-building activities. This session uses the power of children’s books to teach young children to embrace […]
Formed Families Together IN PERSON support group 25 – 26

Featured August 20, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EDT Formed Families Together IN PERSON support group 25 – 26

Formed Families Forward Office 10304 Eaton Place, Suite 100, Fairfax, VA, United States

For adoptive and foster parents and kinship caregivers, these monthly IN PERSON support groups are hosted by FFF. Formed Families Together support groups are facilitated by trained peer parents/caregivers who have lived experience with foster care, adoption and kinship care. The in-person group meets the third Wednesday of each month from 7 – 8:30 PM. […]
September 2025
An Early Childhood Conference- Discovering the Why? Empowering Families and Childcare Providers Together

Featured September 6, 2025 @ 8:00 am - 3:30 pm EDT

GMU Science and Tech campus 10900 University Blvd, Manassas, VA

Hosted by Foundation First, this conference event brings families and educators together to explore strategies for nurturing positive outcomes for children. Attendees can expect to gain: Valuable insights Practical tools & a chance to connect with experts and peers who share a passion for quality early childhood education. FFF's Melissa and Stacia will be presenting […]
Formed Families Together VIRTUAL peer support group meetings 25-26

Featured September 7, 2025 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm EDT Formed Families Together VIRTUAL peer support group meetings

For adoptive and foster parents and kinship caregivers, these monthly virtual support groups are hosted by FFF. Formed Families Together support groups are facilitated by trained peer parents/caregivers who have lived experience with foster care, adoption and kinship care. The virtual group meets the first Sunday of each month from 7:30 - 9 PM. Register […]
Together is Better: Building Collaborative Relationships between Caregivers and Educators webinar

Featured September 12, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am EDT

One of a series hosted by Fairfax Co Public Schools Family Resource Center, presented by FFF.
Formed Families Together IN PERSON support group 25 – 26

Featured September 17, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EDT Formed Families Together IN PERSON support group 25 – 26

Formed Families Forward Office 10304 Eaton Place, Suite 100, Fairfax, VA, United States

For adoptive and foster parents and kinship caregivers, these monthly IN PERSON support groups are hosted by FFF. Formed Families Together support groups are facilitated by trained peer parents/caregivers who have lived experience with foster care, adoption and kinship care. The in-person group meets the third Wednesday of each month from 7 – 8:30 PM. […]
Stronger Together Youth and Young Adult Peer Support Groups (in-person)

Featured September 23, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm EDT Stronger Together Youth and Young Adult Peer Support Groups (in-person)

Formed Families Forward Office 10304 Eaton Place, Suite 100, Fairfax, VA, United States

Our Fall 2025 Stronger Together support group for youth and young adults will meet IN PERSON in Fairfax City for weekly sessions starting on Tuesdays, September 23 from 6 - 7:30 PM. The group emphasizes positive peer supports as a context for strengths-based growth. Participants will explore who they are, who they seek to be, and […]
Preventing Escalation and Reinforcing Growth: Using Proactive, Affirming Behavior Supports with Children and Youth with Autism and related Neurodevelopmental Disorders webinar

Featured September 29, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT

Presented by Drs. Jodi Duke, Grace Francis and Alexandra Raines from GMU College of Education and Human Development, this webinar will offer parents, caregivers and professional partners ways to learn how to reduce the likelihood of distress and build skills by reinforcing helpful behaviors—all while avoiding jargon and centering respectful, neuro-affirming practices.
Stronger Together Youth and Young Adult Peer Support Groups (in-person)

Featured September 30, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm EDT Stronger Together Youth and Young Adult Peer Support Groups (in-person)

Formed Families Forward Office 10304 Eaton Place, Suite 100, Fairfax, VA, United States

Our Fall 2025 Stronger Together support group for youth and young adults will meet IN PERSON in Fairfax City for weekly sessions starting on Tuesdays, September 23 from 6 - 7:30 PM. The group emphasizes positive peer supports as a context for strengths-based growth. Participants will explore who they are, who they seek to be, and […]

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August 2025

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