Intercountry adoption play therapist Jane Brown, who has five adopted children from Korea and China, is coming to Australia in June.  Jane is sponsored by ASIAC (NSW) Inc and AFA (ACT).
 
Jane, a qualified social worker and educator from the USA, works with 20-25 children in a group to explore their adoption experience through drama, drawing, craft, games and other fun activities designed to help integrate the information they receive about adoption and race.  This is Jane's second visit to Australia and this time, she will be taking with her the drawings made by the children to sew into an Adoption Quilt which will be shipped back to Sydney.  The idea is that the quilt will be rotated around the families whose children helped make it and to be used for display at adoption events.

Five Australian states are hosting the Playshops. If you wish to find out more about Jane and her Playshops or to enquire if places are still available (currently filling fast), please contact the following Playshop organisers in the relevant states:

NSW: ASIAC (NSW) INC

• Enquiries - playshops@asiac.org.au (Evelyne Schilz-Middleton)
• Register Online at http://www.asiac.org.au/playshops.html

ACT: ADOPTIVE FAMILIES ASSOCIATION (AFA)

• president@adoption.org.au (Lesley Mulder)

SA: POST ADOPTION SUPPORT SERVICES (PASS) / ADOPTION FAMILY INFORMATIONA SERVICES (AFIS)

• s.petersen@rasa.org.au (Sandi Petersen)
• samantha.cross@dfc.sa.gov.au (Samantha Cross)

TAS:

• jan.williamson@utas.edu.au (Jan Williamson)

VIC: POST PLACEMENT SUPPORT SERVICES (PPSS)

• gspbdb1@optusnet.com.au (Gail Scowcroft)

WA: ADOPTION SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES & CHILDREN (ASFC)

• infoasfc@yahoo.com.au (Sonya Mahoney)