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Meet The Need:
South Carolina's Statewide Training on Adoption

Meet the Need 2024: South Carolina’s Statewide Training on Adoption offers two days of trauma-focused attachment-based training. Keynote speakers include Melissa Corkum- author of Reclaim Compassion, adoptee, and adoptive parent, Kayla Moffitt- foster care advocate, adoptive mother, and Foster the Family staff member, and Allison Cooke Douglas- post-permanency expert at the National Center for Enhanced Post-Adoption Support, Neurosequential Model in Education trainer, and adoptive parent. 

Join us for a two day training diving deeper into the three TBRI® Principles: Connecting, Empowering and Correcting, to bring hope and healing to your home.​

MEET THE NEED 2024

DECEMBER 5-6, 2024

1200 Hampton Street

Pricing

Day 1: $100, Day 2: $50, Both Days: $150

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meet the need 2024 content overview

On day one, adoptive families, adoption professionals, and clinicians will take a deeper dive into the TBRI® Connecting, Empowering, and Correcting Principles through keynotes and breakout sessions led by those with personal and professional lived experience. Day two provides in-depth sessions focused on practical tools attendees can immediately implement at home and in their professional practices.​​

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Meet the Need 2024 SPEAKERS

Meet the Need 2024 will feature keynotes and breakout sessions led by nationally known experts in the adoption field.

hotel accommodations

MARRIOTT DOWNTOWN COLUMBIA, SC

1200 Hampton Street

Located less than a mile from the South Carolina State House and in the heart of Downtown Columbia. 
Discounted rates are available. 

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ADDITIONAL hotel accommodations

Cambria Hotel Columbia Downtown the Vista

1000 Lady Street

Holiday Inn: Columbia - Downtown

1233 Washington Street

FEATURED SPONSORS

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BE AN EXHIBITOR

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Meet the Need offers the opportunity to spread awareness about your organization's services to individuals in the adoption field across the state.

Exhibitors will receive one table for the duration of the event (December 5-6), one complimentary registration to Meet the Need.

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BE A SPONSOR

Join us as a Meet the Need event sponsor to highlight your organization in front of hundreds of adoptive families, adoption professionals, and clinicians. 

Organizations who are interested in being an event sponsor can choose from several levels of investment. 

MEET THE NEED 2023

Thank you to everyone who attended Meet the Need 2023! We hope to see you again next year!

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