OCTOBER08

 

ADOPTEE NEWS

Adoptee Stories / News

• Love Relationships in the Betweenship: by Daniel

• Sunday Night Safran - Podcast with Sumei Williams: White people with brown babies

• Suki's blog: Adoption Survivor

• Adopted & Abused

• Stories heal pain and Victoria's blogsite

• Handcyclist's campaign to eradicate polio: Canadian Indian adoptee

• My Soul's Journey thru' the adoptive process - Jhorna's story

• Growing up in an alien environment (Lemn Sissay - Ethiopian adoptee) and his new book Listener

• Susie's Music - Vietnamese Aussie adoptee

• Matt Purcell - Korean Aussie adoptee & his music

• Independent Registry for Holt Adoptees & Birth Families who are Searching

• Book: Once They Hear My Name and review (by Korean American Adoptees)

 

Adoptee Social Events

• NSW: Adoptee Catchup
  Sun 23 Nov 2008 @ 10am, Sydney
  Contact Lynelle for details

• NSW: Teenz Connection Adoptee Calendar

• VIC: Adoptee Dinner
  Sat 25 Oct, 2008 @ 7pm
  Saigon Rose (206 Chapel St, Prahan)
  Contact Jess to RSVP

• SA: PASS African Hair & Makeup Workshop
  Sun 16 Nov, 2008 @ 1-4pm

• QLD: Adoptee Social Event
  Nov, 2008 (date & time tbc)
  Slaughter Falls, Mt Coot-tha, Brisbane
  http://dl.id.au/l.php?l=1
  G13 in Map 158 of the UBD Directory
  Bring: food to grill, a dish to share, drink
  Contact Ilan for further details

• USA: AFAAD 1st Annual Gathering
  7-9 Nov, 2008 Oakland, CA
  Press Release & Flyer

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

Return to Birth Countries

• First Trip Home for Korean Adoptees
  Applications end 20 Oct, 2008

• Oct 2008 OKF Korean Festival
  Scholarships for Overseas Koreans

• FCC Australia's 1st official China Heritage Tour
  10 - 17 April, 2009
  Further details contact

• TRACK: Truth and Reconciliation for the Adoption Community of Korea

 

Education

• UK: IAC's International Searchers Get Together
  18 Oct, 2008 @ 12noon - 3pm

• USA: Reunions & Expectations Workshop
  24 - 26 Oct, 2008

Looking for Adoptees to Participate

• Australian International Adoptee Film Festival - May 2009.  Interested in participating?  Contact Indigo for details

• SBS Documentary seeks Inter-country Adoptees to participate

• Worldwide Korean Adoptee Survey

• NSW Camp Connection 2009 / 2010
  Paid Project Officer position
  Seeking applications

• 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

• WA: ASFC Cultural Camp
  3 - 5 Oct, 2008

• Holt Adoptee Camps, USA
  
   

General Inter-Country Adoption News

Books

• EMK Teen Book seeking submissions

Media / News Articles

• Lost children looking for missing fathers across borders

• Legal action to make Chinese daughter one of us

• Korea aims to end stigma of adoption and stop "exporting" babies

• Indian adoption scandal referred to CMC

• Love child returned to biological mum

• No winners in Samoan adoption scandal

• Abandoned Korean girl finds home in Hong Kong

• The Lie We Love

• Families in the making

• IVF ban on couples who are trying to adopt "unfair"

• Warning on suspect Indian adoption agency ignored

• Older children abandoned under laws for babies

• YouTube: Malawi Adoption - Tracy Ulman doing a reverse play

• Biggest baby boom since Soviet times

Attorney General's Dept for Intercountry Adoption

• Oct visit to China & South Korea

Research

• Adoption, resilience and the importance of stories: the making of a film about teenage adoptees

• Intercountry Adoption in Europe 1998 - 2006: trends, patterns, and issues (P Selman)

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

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

Education

• NSW: PARC Information & Discussion @
  Northern Beaches
  30 Oct, 2008

• SA: Adoptive Parent Reading & Discussion Group
  30 October, 2008 with a screening of The Girl in the Mirror

Conferences

• USA Conference: The Adoption Initiative: 5th Biennial Adoption Conference - Identity & the Adopted Teen
  Oct 24 & 25, 2008
  St John's University, Manhattan Campus

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