JULY09

Attached is recent news in the adoption arena that is relevant to inter-country adoption.

For older news, go to ARCHIVES
 

ADOPTEE NEWS
 

Adoptee Stories / News

• Everyone is silent when Adoption scandals appear

• Reading with Chopsticks

• Public Hearing on South Korean Adoption Law

• Asian adoptee, now CLU grad student, researches ties

• International adoptee, Courtni Hall, promotes adoption awareness

• Colombian adoptee who's also an adoption therapist in the USA: see www.adoptiontherapist.org

• Adult Adoptee Links

• Korea continues to deny overseas adoptees access

• Petition: Adoptee Right to Participate in Korean Adoption Law Revision

• South Korean Govt: New Central Authority website KCAR (Korean Central Adoption Resources)

• Transcultural adoptees in Film

• Sydney Art Show featuring Vietnamese adoptee Dominic Golding: A-17P a new Collective

• TV Show in Vietnam: As If Never Separated (translated in English)

Adoptees to Participate

• SA: Film & Arts Festival looking for Adoptee Artists & Volunteers

• SA: PASS's 8 week support group for adoptees
  Tues evenings starting 7Jul09

• Call for Korean adoptees to participate in Book

• NSW: AFC Charity Music Showcase Concert

ICASN & AVI Australia-wide Adoptee Events

• Australia-wide Info

• VIC: Transracial Adoptee Films & Seminar Event

• QLD: Transracial Adoptee Films & Panel Event

• NSW: Transracial Adoptee Artist & Panel Event

• SA: Transracial Adoptee Film & Art Event

• WA: details to be posted shortly
   

Adoptee Social Events

• NSW: ICASN Social
  Sun 26 July @ 11am onwards
  Viewing & discussion of film
  Parklea, NSW or catch train to Blacktown
  RSVP to Lynelle & arrange pickup

• NSW: Teenz Connection Adoptee Calendar
  Sun 26 Jul @ 12noon - 4pm
  Iceskating at Fox Studios, Sydney

• USA: AFAAD Nov 09 Annual Gathering

Education

• PASS: Korean Culture & Language Course
  Apr - Jun 2009

Camps

• USA: Filipino Heritage & Culture Camps 2009

• USA: Catalyst Foundation Culture Camps - Vietnam
  July 2009

General Inter-Country Adoption News
 

Media / News Articles

• Klobuchar seeks adoption policy change

• 1950 Child Custody Victim Bertha Hertogh Dies at 72

• Child Welfare League of America, Evan B Donaldson Adoption Institute Announce Patnership

• Single black women choosing to adopt

• Progress over Vietnam adoptions

• New delays on Child adoptions from Vietnam

• Bond set for biological mother in illegal adoption case

• SW China: baby girls taken and sold for adoption

• China checks out charges babies taken from homes

• Theatre: The Show Must Go On
  16 Jul - 1 Aug @ La Mama, Carlton VIC
  True story of Jan Russ who had her baby taken away for adoption

• Vietnamese woman used as Surrogate Wins Competition

• QLD Parents frustrated at child adoption wait

• New families face long wait to be together

• What's My Heritage

• NSW nears gay adoption

• Number of adopted children returned to care has doubled in five years

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Research

• Child Trafficking in the European Union: Challenges, Perspectives and Good Practices

• World Vision Report: 10 Things You Need to Know about Human Trafficking (p28 - 31 Adoption is still a trafficking risk)

• Journal of Korean Adoption Studies
  Call for Papers deadline 1 Sept 09

Attorney General's Dept for Intercountry Adoption

• Updates on Adoptions of Chinese children removed from their families, Thailand & Hong Kong Programs, Ethiopia Program

Education

• NSW: Co&APC Training
  Transforming Relationships for the Hurt Adolescent
  31 July 09
  Anglicare, Parramatta, NSW

• SA: Joys & Challenges of Parenting your Adopted Child
  July & August 09

• SA: Family Korean Language & Culture Course
  30 Jul - 17 Sept 09

• SA: Therapuetic Parenting for Adoptive Parents
  October & November, 09

• Input needed for: Transracial Adoptive Parenting Initiative - Canada Ontario

• Jayne Schooler in New Zealand, June 2010
  Assessing, Preparing & Supporting Families caring for Traumatized Children and Children in Out-of-Home Care

Conferences

• Australian National Forum on Post Adoption
  for workers in Govt & Non-Govt sector only
  15 - 17 Sept 2009
  Adelaide, SA, Australia

• The 11th Annual KAAN Conference
  Extending the Family of Korean Adoption
  31 Jul - 2 Aug 2009
  Denver, Colorado, USA

• Annual NACAC Conference
  13 - 15 August, 2009
  Columbus, Ohio

• Alliance for the study of Adoption & Culture
  3rd International Conference, 2010
  Adoption: Secret Histories, Public Policies
  20 - 23 May, 2010
  Cambridge, MA, USA

• Adoption Conference 2010: Connections
  4 - 6 June, 2010
  Mount Wellington, Auckland, New Zealand
  Details

• Call for Papers (ends Sept 15, 2009) for
  The 2nd International Symposium on Korean Studies (sponsored by IKAA)
  3 August, 2010
  Seoul, Korea