Is Adoption on Canadas Endangered Species List?
Many forces are working against adoption and against the waiting children in our current system. Adoption is threatened by these creeping forces. Are we open to the things we need to do right now to turn this around, or will adoption soon be extinct? Marilyn Shinyei, Adoption Options, Edmonton, Alberta 4C English – Getting Out from Behind Closed Doors: A guide to opening your child’s adoption A humorous and emotional view of opening two closed adoptions as experienced by one mother. Myths, realities, challenges and rewards of openness and opening up closed adoptions will be presented. This session is designed for adoptive/prospective adoptive parents and professionals. Karen Madeiros Adoptive Families Association of British Columbia, Burnaby 4D English – What Can We Learn from the U.K.? This workshop will describe the UK’s national framework on multi agencies and its impact for children in care and adopted children. The discussion will include ways to make what you have now more effect
