PORTLAND – Adoptive and Foster Families of Maine is holding its annual conference today and Saturday, April 6, at Verrillo’s Convention Center in Portland. Among the speakers are Lynn Price, founder of the sibling reunification camp program called Camp To Belong, a service that is tentatively planned to start in Maine during the summer of 2003. Price will deliver an address Friday morning.

David Berns, director of the Department of Human Services in El Paso County, Colo., will present a program titled “Working Together to Preserve Families,” which addresses kinship-care resources.

The conference is designed for foster and adoptive parents, kinship care providers (defined as relatives raising relatives’ children), adoption workers, caseworkers, attorneys, CASAS (court appointed special advocates), judges, educators, advocates and all people interested in the future of the state’s children.