JUNE08

ADOPTEE NEWS
 

Adoptee Stories

• Loss after Loss

• Corrie Lothrop - Chinese Adoptee & Qualifies for Olympic Trials

• Article: Adoptees use DNA to predict Surname

• Girl with No Country - Adoptee from Guatemala

• YouTube: I Was Stolen (note there are 2 parts to the video)

• Chad Goller-Souourner: Memoirs of a Bulimic Black Boy
  Book here for Performances: 11 - 20 July
  Seattle, USA

• Canada's Native Adoptees: Stolen Nation

• The Book Show: Growing up Asian in Australia (the book includes Blossom's chapter - Korean Adoptee) or try Blip.TV link

• Vietnamese Adoptee Dominic Golding features on Compass: A Sense of Place
  ABC TV, Sunday June 15

• Jen's Story on YouTube

Adoptee Social Events

• VIC: Melbourne Adoptees
  4 July, Friday Night @ 7pm
  Penang Affair, 325 Brunswick St, Fitzroy
  contact Jessica to RSVP

• NSW: Sydney Adoptees
  10 July, Thursday Night
  contact Lynelle for details

• SA: EMW Movie Fundraiser
  29 June, contact Kat or 0432 573 944

• SA: EMW Indoor Rock Climbing
  20 July, contact Kat or 0432 573 944

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

Return to Birth Countries

• Vietnamese Sancta Maria Adoptees:
  Reunion being organised for 2010
  Contact Peter for details

• Photos of Vietnamese Orphanages

• Holt Family Tours, USA

Education

• SA: Searching Discussion Evening
  Monday July 14, 2008

• USA: Sexual Abuse Healing Weekend for Adoptees & Birth Mothers

Looking for Adoptees to Participate

• Korean Adoptees: Also-Known-As Mentor Program

• Adoptee Rights Day Demonstration
  New Orleans, USA - July 22, 2008

• Writing My Wrongs

• GOAL: Dual Citizenship Questionnaire for Adoptees & Adoptive Parents

• New Teenage Book: What My Parents Couldn't Tell Me
  Seeking poetry, short pieces, quotes

• Korean Australian Adoptees
  Anyone interested to help organise a future International Korean Adoptee Gathering (2011) here in Aust - contact Pia

• Adoptee Conducting Research: looking for adoptee artists to participate in research
  Contact Dominic for details

• Research needing Adoptees to Participate

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

• Seeking Asian Adoptees who can contribute to Grinding up Stones - an Asian Adoptee publication
  
   

Camps

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

• Teen Korean-English Summer Camp
  July 26 - Aug 9, 2008

• Holt Adoptee Camps, USA
  
   

General Inter-Country Adoption News
 

Birth Mother Stories

• Raising a Child Alone in Seoul - A birth mother's story

Blogs

• Do Orphanages really want to find Birth Parents?

• The Perfect Prospective Adoptive Parent

Documentary

• Unrepentant: Kevin Annett and Canada's Native Indian Genocide

• Adopted: A film by Barb Lee (Trailer now available)

Media / News Articles

• Adoption Asian kids becomes latest fad

• Mixed Blessings

• Too Posh to Adopt?

• Council of Europe adopts new convention on Adoption

• Nepal introduces new inter-country adoption terms

• We are Family

• Mom convicted of Killing Son

• Tallahassee lawyer suspended in adoption case

 

Attorney General's Dept for Intercountry Adoption

• Updates on:
  delegation visit to Ethiopia, Philippines program, first Peak Group Meeting outcomes, South Korean program, Thailand & South America pending delegation visits  

Research

• Intercountry Adoption Statistics
   

Education

• VIC: Sexuality & Identity
  29 August, 2008

• VIC: Preserving Memories
  24 June, 2008

• SA: Parenting Workshop - Supporting Children who have been Traumatised
  4 July, 2008

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

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

• Holt Web Seminar: Adopting from China, Ethiopia, & Other Countries
  24 July, 2008

Conferences

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

• 8th International Conference on Grief & Bereavement in Contemporary Society
  15 - 18 July, 2008 @ Melbourne, VIC

• Adoption in Australia Symposium: VIC
  July 3-4, 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