SEPTEMBER08

ADOPTEE NEWS
 

Adoptee Stories / News

• Songs by Susie (Vietnamese adoptee)

• Reunite Cards by Adoptees

• The point of return

• Late Discovery Blogsite

• (Blog) Shedding Skin: Moving away from being called an Adopted Adult and Adoptee

• National Centre for Missing Indian Kids and Vanessa's story including her interview

• SBS Worldview Podcast: Ethical Intercountry Adoption with Indigo Willing and HeeRa Heaser from ICASN

 

Adoptee Social Events

• QLD: Adoptee Social Event
  2 Nov, 2008 @ 12noon - 3pm
  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

• WA: Adoptee Social Event
  20 Sept, 2008 @ 7:30pm
  Seoul Korean Restaurant
  253a William St, Northbridge (Chinatown)
  Contact Eun to RSVP

• VIC: Adoptee Social Event
  20 Sept, 2008 @ 7pm
  Goshen: 189 Smith St, Fitzroy
  Contact Jess to RSVP

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

• USA: AFAAD Bay Area Gathering
  19 Sept, 2008 @ 7pm Z Cafe & Bar

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

Return to Birth Countries

• 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

• NSW: Aust Adoption Conference
  Young Adult Adoptees Forum
  Wed 3 Sept, 2008 @ 7pm

• SA: Adoption, Identity & Connecting
  30 Sept - 18 Nov, 2008

• SA: The Culture of Adoption
  Mon 11 Sept, 2008

• USA: Sexual Abuse Healing Weekend for Adoptees & Birth Mothers
  5 - 7 Sept, 2008

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

Looking for Adoptees to Participate

• 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

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

• Holt Adoptee Camps, USA
  
   

General Inter-Country Adoption News
 

Adoption Legislation

• QLD Review of Adoption Laws
  - time period for comment has been extended to 22 Sept, 2008

Books

• Australian Book: Love our Way available at all major book stores.  Review by S Macrae

• Australian Book: Releasing the Past - Mother's stories of their stolen babies
  Available at Gleebooks

• EMK Teen Book seeking submissions

Media / News Articles

• China eases restrictions on illegally adopted children

• Proposals to make adoption easier

• Plans to let parents legally abandon kids

• Adoption from abroad takes a dive

• No way home for India's Stolen Kids

• Failed adoptions carry real pain

• Love in Action

• Birth Parents want to see Trafficked child

• Adoptive Parents of kidnapped children may face legal action

• The great Indian adoption racket across four continents

• Zabeen Kidnapping Photos

Attorney General's Dept for Intercountry Adoption

• Ministerial Statement regarding the recent Indian Adoption Scandal

• India Program Updates

• China & South Korea's program updates
   

Research

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

Education

• NSW: Wine & Cheese Night for Adoptive Parents
  24 Sept, 2008

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

• SA: Medical & Developmental Issues for inter-country adopted children
  11, 18, 25 Sept, 2008

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

• SA: Adoption Counsellor Training
  9 & 16 Sept, 2008

Conferences

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

• 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