expert will speak

Mid Valley Adoptive Families and the Benton County Family Support Group are playing host to speaker Jackie Tasker, a clinical family therapist, at 4 p.m. Saturday at the Grace Lutheran Church, 435 N.W. 21st St., Corvallis. Tasker has therapeutic expertise and experience in attachment, bonding, trauma, grief and loss. She works with families and with adoptees of all ages as well as children who are not adopted, and with children who have behavior issues. Recently she returned from the Evergreen Psychotherapy Center in Evergreen, Colo., where she received training in attachment therapies from Dr. Terry Levy. 

 To RSVP, email JudiKO@aol.com or call 745-5779. 

— Gazette-Times