I am a searcher... I always was... and I still am... searching for the missing piece.

—Louise Bourgeois

Somewhere Between NY Conference Screening & Panel

Clinicians, Constellation Community & Educators Welcome!
View the Conference Schedule HERE
The 8th Biennial St. John’s Adoption Initiative Conference
May 29 – 31, 2014
Brooklyn, NY
Sleeping Giants in Adoption:
Power, Privilige, Politics and Class
Since 2000, the Adoption Initiative has provided a forum to encourage and promote a greater understanding of the critical adoption issues affecting our society at large.  By creating a dynamic structure where scholars, professionals, researchers and other individuals interested in advancing our understanding important aspects of the adoption experience are brought together  to discuss their most recent contributions in the field.
The conference is a dynamic and energetic, adoptee-centric academic forum to hear perspectives on issues relevant to our community. This year I am honored to moderate a post-screening panel discussion comprised of the subjects of Linda Goldstein Knowlton’s documentary Somewhere Between.
Somewhere Between: #fiveyearslater #powerpanel #adopteevoices
Jenna Cook, Haley Butler, Jenni “Fang” Lee and Ann Bocutti (in person and via video-feed)
along with the filmmaker, will share their perspectives
on the conference themes through the lens of their own experiences.
If you are a clinician, this is a special opportunity to connect with professional resources that are key to working effectively with adoptive families.  If you are part of the adoption constellation, and interested in learning about how social institutions and policy affect you and your family, this conference will provide much food for thought. Very reasonable accommodations are available on campus. CEUs are available. Register for the conference here!
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Free Monthly Support Group in Pasadena

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Lesli Johnson, MFT and I have formed AdoptCONNECT
and joined with Five Acres to continue providing a monthly
adoption support group in Pasadena.
The mission of AdoptCONNECT is to provide a place for the Adoption and Foster Care community to come together and share stories, ideas and concerns in a safe environment. It is a place to express feelings, process grief and loss, give and get support and build lasting connections.AdoptCONNECT is a free monthly group for all members of the adoption and foster care community: adult adoptees, birth/first parents, adoptive parents, waiting parents, former foster youth, foster parents and legal guardians.  We look forward to seeing you this month!

This Thursday, March 20th

 7 – 9pm

Five Acres Zeilstra Center

747 W. Mountain View Street

Altadena, CA 91101

(Please park behind the building)

Facilitated by adult adoptees: Lesli Johnson, MFT and Angela Gee, MFT
AdoptCONNECT is a drop-in group and there is no need to RSVP!

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Inheritance

23andme85.5% Chinese
2.9% Nonspecific East Asian
3.3% Southeast Asian
8% Nonspecific East Asian and Native American
.3% Unassigned

100% Angela Gee

Thanks to 23 & Me, another piece of my identity was recently illuminated. Getting the 411 on my DNA affirmed more than just my race and ethnicity. Similar to receiving the “non-identifying” information of my first months of life provided by my Louisiana orphanage, the concrete information fills in some blanks, while reinforcing a sense of loss as it provides another piece of my identity puzzle. I am enthralled with the ancient and modern migration of my self.… Read the rest “Inheritance”