NOV09

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

• TV: SBS 2 Part Doco to air Dec 9 & 16 @ 8:30pm EST Are You My Mother? (about Australian raised Intercountry Adoptees searching for bfamily & reunion - followed by on-line web debate & discussion)

• Adopted from Korea and in Search of Identity

• The babies airlifted out of Saigon

• From Saigon to Sussex - Reuniting the Vietnamese Airlift Orphans

• Finding Alice

• A generation fights to reform adoption laws

• What does "Gotcha" mean?

• Radio: Operation Babylift

• Omma Moments: Blog by Korean adoptee
   

Adoptees to Participate

• SA: Adoptee Mentors 20yrs+ for mentoring younger adoptees.  Full training provided by PASS.  Contact Sandi

Adoptee Social Events
Australia

• SA: Adoption, Identity & Belonging
  8 week support group
  6 Oct - 24 Nov, 2009 @ 4:30 - 6:30pm

• VIC: Intercountry Adoption Search & Reunion Discussion Forum
  Fri 4 Nov @ 8pm
  Collingwood Library, Abbotsford

• VIC: ICASN Social Dinner
  Thurs 26 Nov @ 6:30pm
  Marquis of Lorne (411 George St, Fitzroy)
  RSVP to Jess

• NSW: PARC Adoption Events Calendar
   

ICASN & AVI Australia-wide Adoptee Event

• Australia-wide Info

Adoptee Social Events
Other Countries

• USA: AFAAD Calendar

• USA: Oakland AFAAD - Adoptee Round Table
  6 Week Discussion Group
  14 Oct - 28 Nov, 09

• USA: Bay Area AFAAD Evening Discussion
  Wed 2 Dec, 2009 @ 7 - 9pm
  Contact AFAAD to RSVP

• USA: AFAAD 2nd Annual Gathering
  6 - 8 Nov, 2009
  Oakland, CA, USA

Camps / Return Trips to Birth Country

• Holt Homecoming Program for Korean adoptees wishing to work/live in Korea

• AUST/USA: TIES return trip to India
  27 Dec 09 - 10 Jan 10

• Worldwide: Operation Reunite - Vietnam Return Trip April 2010

• Vietnamese Adoptees from An Lac Orphanage
  Reunion 2010
  Contact Jason for further details
  
   

General Inter-Country Adoption News
 

Books / Film

• Other People's Children: Adoption in Australia

• Pieces of Me: Who do I want to be?

• Adoption: A Comprehensive Guide for Educators (by NAAW 2009)

• Film: Dust of Life

• Book: Adoption Reunion - Ecstasy or Agony?

• Book: Touched by Adoption: Journey's towards Wholeness

Media / News Articles

• South Koreans struggle with Race

• Australian Adoptions: Tangled Web
  ABC Radio on Hindsight, 15 Nov & 22 Nov (featuring International Adoption in Australia)

• Anger grows over Adoption Scam

• Silence on case of Stolen Indian Children

• Trafficking reports raises heart wrenching questions for adoptive parents

• Pity third world orphans, but they're not a commodity

• Fear, racism prevent easy adoption

• Close to tears Deborra-Lee Furness appeals for more Australians to adopt orphans

• Prosecution of Illegal adoption in the Netherlands

• Deborra-Lee Furness pushes for more adoptions

Research

• The Search for Family: A Social & Political History of Adoption in Australia

• Beyond Culture Camp: Promoting Healthy Identity Formation in Adoption
• Psychosocial correlates of parenting stress in Australian parents with a daughter adopted from China

Australian Attorney General's Dept for Intercountry Adoption

• General Updates 

• Country Program Updates

• Intercountry Adoption Process

• Updates on Consultative Groups

Education: Australia & New Zealand

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

• SA: Grief & Loss Workshop
  14 Nov 09

• VIC: Intercountry Adoption Search & Reunion Discussion Forum
  Fri 4 Nov @ 8pm
  Collingwood Library, Abbotsford

• VIC: A Day with Dr Dave Ziegler
  The Science of Success in Working with Difficult Children
  26 Nov 09

• VIC: Daniel Hughes Training - Attachment Focused Parenting
  28 Nov, 09

• TAS: Daniel Hughes Training - Facilitating Developmental Attachment
  26 & 27 Nov, 09

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

Conferences: International

• Mothering & Migration Conference
  18 - 20 Feb, 2010
  Puerto Rico

• 41st Anniversary Convention
  Northeast Modern Language Association
  7 - 11 April, 2010
  Montreal Quebec, Canada
  Calls for papers : Adoption Memoirs

• 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

• 3rd International Conference on Adoption Research (ICAR)
  11 - 15 July, 2010
  Leiden University, The Netherlands
  Call for Papers

• 12th Annual KAAN Conference
  23 - 25 Jul, 2010
  Harrisburg, PA

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

• Shedding Light on the Adoption Experience XI
  The Lifelong Effects of Adoption & Need for Family Preservation
  24 - 25 Sept, 2010
  New York City, USA