AUGUST08

ADOPTEE NEWS
 

Adoptee Stories / News

• Beauty through the eyes of an Asian Adoptee

• Vietnam: Will adoptions bring orphans a better life?

• French Connection: Adopted girls revisit Indian orphanage

• United Adoptees International (UAI) launches English version Blogsite

• Overseas Korean Adoption has roots in History, scholar says

• Gianna Horak: Pre-Olympic Ceremony, Return Visit Planned, & A Young Singer's Olympic Sized Adventure

• An adoptee on her Korean culture

• Jen and Family

• A Korean adoptee thinks she's White

• An adoptee on her mum's perspective

• An adoptee talks about Racism

• The Adoptee's sense of beauty

• Transracial Adoption Video

• Adoption - Race vs Culture

• Adoption - Chinese vs Adopted Chinese

• Blog: Adoptee is not in my spell checker

 

Adoptee Social Events

• NSW: Teenz Connection
  31 Aug, 2008

• SA: Adelaide Adoptees
  23 August, Saturday late afternoon
  Mekong Thai on Hindley St, Adelaide
  contact Lynelle on 0411 126 427

• SA: EMW Ice Skating
  Sat 23 Aug @ 12:30 - 4pm

• USA: AFAAD 1st Annual Gathering
  7-9 Nov, 2008 Oakland, CA

• USA: African Adoptee (AFAAD) Discussion Group / Dinner
  Thurs 14 Aug, 2008 @ 7:00pm
  RSVP or call 202-679-0105

• Asian Adoptee Gathering - Hawaii
  Oct 10 - 13, 2008

• Adoption Cross Roads celebrates 22 Years
  30 Aug, 2008
  74 Lakewood Drive, Congers NY, USA
   

Return to Birth Countries

• Oct 2008 OKF Korean Festival
  Scholarships for Overseas Koreans

• FCC Australia's 1st official China Heritage Tour
  10 - 17 April, 2009
  Further details contact

• TRACK: Truth and Reconciliation for the Adoption Community of Korea

 

Education

• NSW: Aust Adoption Conference
  Young Adult Adoptees Forum
  Wed 3 Sept, 2008 @ 7pm

• SA: Adoption, Identity & Connecting
  30 Sept - 18 Nov, 2008

• SA: The Culture of Adoption
  Mon 11 Aug & 11 Sept, 2008

• USA: Sexual Abuse Healing Weekend for Adoptees & Birth Mothers
  5 - 7 Sept, 2008

• USA: Reunions & Expectations Workshop
  24 - 26 Oct, 2008

Looking for Adoptees to Participate

• NSW Camp Connection 2009 / 2010
  Paid Project Officer position
  Seeking applications

• Adoptees who have come from Illegal Adoptions
  Contact Lynelle for participation in an international documentary

• QLD: Adoption Services Dept seeking Teen & Adult Adoptees to participate in Prospective Parent Education Session
  Contact Rachel Rosenbrock or 07 3006 4025
   

Camps

• NSW: Camp Connection 2009 / 2010

• WA: ASFC Cultural Camp
  3 - 5 Oct, 2008

• Filipino Heritage Camp - Colorado, USA
  Aug 7 - 10, 2008
  Adoptee Counsellors Needed

• Holt Adoptee Camps, USA
  
   

General Inter-Country Adoption News
 

Birth Family

• YouTube: Adoption foundation founder now supports Korean unwed mothers

Books

• Australian Book: Love our Way available at all major book stores.  Review by S Macrae

• Australian Book: Releasing the Past - Mother's stories of their stolen babies
  Available at Gleebooks

• Silent Tears: A Journey of Hope in a Chinese Orphanage

Media / News Articles

• TIME: Stolen Children

• ABC Radio: Indian babies "bought and sold" for foreign adoption

• The Chinese Adoption Effect

• Cuts in foreign adoptions causing anxiety in USA

• Funding of Humanitarian projects hosts more children abroad; english version

• Geelong babies used as guinea pigs in scientific testing

• South Korea debates International Adoption

• Stolen kids traced to Dutch orphanage

• Stolen babies adoption racket

• Adoptions from India & Child Trafficking

• Adoption racket opens a can of worms

• Reports of child trafficking in name of adoption 'malafide'

• QLD Govt still awaiting proof of Indian adoption racket

• Painful truth about adopted children

• Premier can't recall stolen kid cases

• Cover-up claim over 'stolen' child's adoption

• Couples sent stolen children by Indian adoption agency

• Children kidnapped for Aussie adoptions

• Australia Talks: Podcast of the discussion on Intercountry Adoption

• Vietnam Orphanages in fake document investigation

• How the McCain's changed their adoption baby story just before 2008 bid

• Couple accused of taking Kenyan baby

• India-Japan baby in legal wrangle

• Yadav, 9, vanished into thin air

• UNICEF's Definition of Orphan

• Film: Foster Child

• Meth, adoption, deportation

• Call to fight trafficking of unborn

Attorney General's Dept for Intercountry Adoption

• Updates available on:
  - Commonwealth-State Agreement for continuation of Australia's ICA
  - Information for Parents who have adopted from India

• Peak Group Agenda for July's Meeting
  - Communique for July's meeting

• Statistics

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Research

• Intercountry Adoption - Call for Papers for Journal (International Social Work)

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Education

• NSW: Wine & Cheese Night for Adoptive Parents
  24 Sept, 2008

• VIC: Sexuality & Identity
  29 August, 2008

• VIC: Preserving Memories
  22 August, 2008

• SA: Medical & Developmental Issues for inter-country adopted children
  11, 18, 25 Sept, 2008

• SA: Childhood, Adolescence & Beyond - the experience of an Intercountry Adoptee
  Sun 24 Aug, 2008

• SA: Therapeutic Parenting for Adoptive Parents
  July & August, 2008

• SA: Adoptive Parent Reading & Discussion Group
  August & October, 2008

• SA: Adoption Counsellor Training
  9 & 16 Sept, 2008

Conferences

• 9th Australian Adoption Conference
  Sydney, NSW
  2 - 5 Sept, 2008

• USA Conference: The Adoption Initiative: 5th Biennial Adoption Conference - Identity & the Adopted Teen
  Oct 24 & 25, 2008
  St John's University, Manhattan Campus

• North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC) 34th Annual Conference
  Ottawa, Ontario
  July 31 - Aug 2, 2008

• Centre for Family Connections
  4th International Action Conference on Post Adoption Services
  23 - 25 Feb, 2009
  Hotel Marlowe, Cambridge, MA, USA