DEC08

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Adoptee News

Adoptee Stories / News

• QLD: ICASN QLD State Rep is Anna
  A HUGE thankyou to Ilan who did a fabulous job in the past couple of years for QLD ICASN!

• Dear Expectant Parent - blog by Korean adoptee

• My Father (movie) by Aaron Bates (Korean adoptee).  Interview with Aaron

• YouTube: First Trip Home for 44 Korean adoptees (funded by GOAL & Korean Govt Agencies)

• Adoptees in Reunion (thesis by Susan Rogers, Nov08)

• Things My Mother Told Me by Juli Jeong Martin as published in Zine

• Adopted from Russia with love to Korean home

• Genes, Schemes and International Adoption (Korean adoptee solo performer)

Books

• The Colours in Me: Writings & Poetry by Adopted Children & Young People (book)
  Book Launch for 16 Feb09 - London UK

Adoptee Social Events

• NSW: Teenz Connection Adoptee Calendar

• NSW: Transracial Adoptee Film & Panel Event (sponsored by NSW DoCS)
  Sat 20 May, 2009 @ Parramatta
  Contact Lynelle

• VIC: Transracial Adoptee Film & Panel Event (sponsored by Monash University)
  June 2009 @ Monash Uni
  Contact Dominic

• VIC: ICASN Social
  Sat 27 Dec08 for Dinner
  Contact Jess for details

• SA: Relationships Australia PASS
  8 Week Support Group Evenings for Adopted People focusing on Adoption, Identity & Belonging
  9 Feb - 6 Apr, 09 @ 6:30-8:30pm

Looking for Adoptees to Participate

• Transracial Adoptee Film & Panel Event 2009
  Interested in participating as a volunteer or do you have a film you wish to show?  Contact Indigo for details

• ICASN Perspective Paper - if you'd like to participate in the next paper, our topic is "Parenthood".  Contact Lynelle for details

• Jigsaw seeking adoptees to participate in Postcard project: Adoption Secrets

• SBS Documentary seeks Inter-country Adoptees to participate

• Adoptees who have come from illegal adoptions
  Contact Lynelle for participation in an international documentary

• EMK Teen Book seeking submissions
   

Camps

• NSW: Camp Connection 2009 / 2010
  
   

General Inter-Country Adoption News

Books / Films

• Adopted (film) - now available on DVD

Media / News Articles

• Adoption abused for enrolment in schools at US Military Camp

• Child?  Or Adopted Child?

• Vietnam adoptions in the spotlight (english translation)

• Family Reunion

• Business of Babies

• Couples look to adopt kids, kept waiting

• US intercountry adoptions fall for 2008

• Feminist lens on adoption

Attorney General's Dept for Intercountry Adoption

• Legislation & Publications

• Harmonisation Workgroup Updates

• Central Authorities Nov08 Meeting Report

• Darwin's ICA Peak Group Meeting Communique

• Updates on China Document Processing Info, China's Online Waiting Child Program, China Increase in Orphanage Donations

NSW Government for Intercountry Adoption

• EOI for Intercountry Adoption Assessment & Placement Service

Research

• Adoptees in Reunion (thesis by Susan Rogers, Nov08)

• Adoptees as 'White' Koreans (by Kim Park Nelson 2007)

• Psychosocial Outcomes within Adopted & Non-Adopted Individuals (Summary)

• Corruption in International Adoptions: Where do babies come from and where do they go?

• Ministry of Justice Quarterly (Netherlands)
  Summary for Nov08

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

• Issues in Gay & Lesbian Adoption due for release Dec09 - Call for Papers (Adoption Quarterly)
   

Legislation

• NSW Adoption Ammendment 2008

Conferences

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

• PACT
  True Colors I: Putting together the pieces of the Transracial Adoption Puzzle
  Jan 10 & Jun 13, 2009
  Oakland, CA, USA