Upcoming Adoption Events

• "The Adoptee's Challenge"
  A 6-week course in beginning January 8, 2008
  Albany Adult School, Albany, CA 
  Six 1-1/2 hour sessions covering adoptees, search, and sealed records.
  "Explore the challenges faced by adopted people seeking their missing heritage. Lectures, feature film segments of adopted people and their parents searching for each other, and class discussions will be interesting to people who have a personal or professional involvement with adoption. Learn about recent changes in some states that now allow adoptees to access their own birth certificates. Meet others who share your interest in this topic."
  Janine Baer, M.A, instructor and adoptee. Total cost is $30.
  To register, visit www.albanyadultschool.org
   
• "Adoption in the Global Community: Redefining Kinship in the 21st Century"
  The 29th Annual Conference of the American Adoption Congress (AAC) will be held on March 26-29, 2008 at the Portland Downtown Waterfront Marriott, 1401 SW Naito Parkway, Portland, Oregon 97201.  For more information and to register, visit the AAC website: http://www.americanadoptioncongress.org/national_conferences.php
   
• "On Adoption"
  April 16, 2008
  Herbst Theatre, San Francisco
  A City Arts & Lectures presentation as part of their 2008 series on Art & Politics
  The two speakers are Linda Carroll, author of  Her Mother's Daughter and Ann Fessler, author of The Girls Who Went Away. 
  For registration information and tickets, visit www.cityarts.net
   
• If you'd like us to include your upcoming event here, please let us know.