What: Film Screening of A Girl Like Her” and Discussion with Filmmaker Ann Fessler
When: Thursday May 1st, 2014 at 6:00pm
Where: The Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) Ferguson Lecture Hall, 600 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago IL http://www.mocp.org/events/event?id=257900
Bonus: Adoption Community AND Ann Fessler herself!
Ethiopian Adoption Connection is a searchable database, the objective of which is to match Ethiopian adoptees living around the world with their families in Ethiopia. I’m really very proud of it. It’s clean and simple which was key. We had to anticipate language and cultural issues, plus privacy verses searchability. Check it out at http://ethiopianadoptionconnection.org/.
The media loves adoption.
Only adoption can produce such a range of human interest from the heartwarming reunion stories to the horrors of an adoption gone wrong. It is adoption that gives us our fiercest headline producing custody battles and fluffy bits about the newest addition to a celebrity’s Hollywood brood.
Unfortunately, the important news about adoption is usually buried deep or posted online on small local papers, but adoption issues are in the news almost every day. Get your daily dose here, adoption news all the time. It might be bad, it might be good, but it’s always about adoption.
We don’t make this stuff up!
What’s the Difference? Family of the Missing Plane or Mother from Adoption
I personally find it difficult to understand why our society in general can grasp these families grief, yet they can’t understand or even acknowledge a mother of adoption loss’ grief. Do mothers not warrant the same compassion and empathy as those that lose a loved one in another fashion? Loss is loss. Grief has no rules as to which situation grants the right to grieve.
With a broken and heavy heart we share the news of the unexpected passing of someone dear to so many of us. Jeni Gay Flock has passed on March 19, 2014. Fellow activist, adoptee, and beautiful soul, she will be missed.
WHEN: Wednesday, March 27, 20146:00 to 9:00 p.m.WHERE: Adoption Network Cleveland 4614 Prospect Ave, Ste 550 Cleveland, Ohio 44103
WHO: Foster, Adoptive or Birthparents
CONTACT: At least one week prior to date: Eddie Lebron at 216-881-5390
WHEN: Friday, March 29, 2014 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
WHERE: Adoption Network Cleveland 4614 Prospect Avenue, Ste 550 Cleveland, Ohio 44103
WHO: Adoptive, Foster or Birthparents
Documentary film maker Jean A.S. Strauss will be in Cleveland for the viewing of her new film “A Simple Piece of Paper”. Adoption Network Cleveland is proud to be the Community Partner for the world premiere of this film. Jean follows 18 citizens as they receive their original birth certificates following a change in Illinois law. In 2015, Ohio Adoptees will be able to do the same.
WHEN: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
WHERE: Mentor Baptist Church 7500 Johnnycake Ridge Mentor, Ohio
WHO: Anyone associated with adoption or foster children
WHEN: Monday, March 24, 2014 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Adoption Network Cleveland 4614 Prospect Ave, Ste 550 Cleveland, Ohio 44103
WHO: Anyone interested in volunteering with ANC in any capacity.
WHEN: Thursday, March 20, 2014 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
WHERE: Church of the Savior 2537 Lee Road Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44118
WHO: Anyone interested in making a difference to a youth in foster care by becoming a Mentor
CONTACT: amy.lomis@adoptionnetwork.org
FEE: NONE
When: Thursday, March 20, 2014 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Where: Church of the Savior 2537 Lee Road Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44118
Who: Anyone connected with adoption.
When: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 from 6:45 to 8:45 p.m.
Where: Adoption Network Cleveland, 4614 Prospect Ave, Ste 550, Cleveland 44103
Who: Adoptees 18 & over
Contact: Linda Bellini – 216-482-2323
Cost Members $20.00 / Non-Members $30.00
One chart counts children and the other chart counts millions of dollars in profits and revenue for ONE adoption agency. They really shouldn’t correlate, should they? If adoption was ethical and not a business and not based on supply and demand than these two charts should not relate to each other at all, right? Especially a fine accredited long standing nonprofit adoption agency like Adoption Advocates International that has “saved” children for 30 years.
This monthly group is for anyone exploring adoption or who has begun the adoption process. Musings of the Lame cannot confirm the quality of such meetings nor approve or disapprove the messages given. Please do your homework to ensure that any adoption is as ethical as possible. As this agency has a foster to adopt program, the listing is permitted.