Monthly Adoptive Parents Meeting

80 Park St, Montclair, NJ | Get Directions »
FREE

Featured topic: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know

About Adoption, but Were Afraid to Ask

Speaker: Maris H. Blechner, M Ed LCSW,

Maris is an adoptive and birth parent, an educator, a

social worker, and a nationally respected speaker and

trainer on child welfare issues. She has more than 31

years of professional experience in public adoption.

Maris was one of the founders of Family Focus Adoption

Services, the high energy level NY State adoption

agency that she has directed for the last 24 years. She

has been the Vice President of the North American

Council on Adoptable Children and the NY State

Adoption Action Network and is a Board member

emeritus of NY State APC. She also sits on a variety of

work groups dealing with the improvement of

adoption. Most importantly, Maris defines herself as a

child advocate, well trained in grass roots community

activism.