The Spokane Orphan Summit, a one-day conference aimed at encouraging Christians to get involved with foster, adopted and orphaned children and their families, will take place Saturday at Eastpoint Church.
The conference, which will be from 8:55 a.m. – 4 p.m., includes presentations from a variety of local and regional speakers about foster care, adoption, poverty, abuse, trauma, culture/identity and race, aging out of foster care, spiritual growth, medication management, managing behaviors, and other topics, according to an announcement.
There will also be breakout sessions for attendees to choose from.
Walk-in registration begins at 7:30 a.m. and costs $20 per person.
There will also be a pre-conference on Friday, which will feature trauma and attachment therapist Deborah Gray and Dr. Julia Bledsoe, founder of the Center for Adoption Medicine and pediatrician at the Fetal Alcohol Clinic at University of Washington.
Walk-in registration for the pre-conference will begin at 8 a.m. and cost is $50. The pre-conference runs from 9 a.m. -5:30 p.m.
