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here where I've been passing along information ...
Here's a press release from AdoptionDoctors.Com,
AdoptionDoctors.Com, a Long Island, NY based pre-adoption medical record service team, is showcasing their practice on-line through their website and via their upcoming Hague compliant pre-adoption education and parenting classes that are set to begin this Spring. The doctors are part of a team of licensed professionals assisting adoptive parents around the world, a network that includes physicians, psychologists and social workers.
"Parents who are planning to adopt internationally have many questions and concerns about their prospective children so we established AdoptionDoctors.Com to meet their particular needs," stated Dr. George Rogu, medical director and founder of the on-line information portal and evaluation service. "We help concerned parents by providing pre-adoption medical record and video tape evaluations before they proceed with an international adoption. Our blind referral evaluation and support service allows parents to send important medical information and video footage about the child when overseas to our office for a remote evaluation. We are a life link back to the United States", added Dr. Rogu.
Recent changes with an international adoption law has necessitated that parents complete adoption education classes to comply with the 2007 Hague accreditation process. Realizing that classes are beyond what many adoption agencies can provide, AdoptionDoctors.Com is putting the finishing touches on distance learning classes for parents that may be accomplished on their own time.
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Jewish Child Care Association is having a conference on infertility, adoption and the family in New York City next month.
Dr. Jane Aronson, well known and respected adoption doctor, is scheduled to be the keynote speaker.
Here's a list of topics to be covered in the conference:
Health and developmental issues of children adopted from abroad
Comparing domestic and international options
Our stories ... our voices (Adult adoptee panel)
Relationships with birth parents and open adoption
Interpreting children's pre-adoption medical records
Talking to others (including kids) about adoption
Adopting and the Jewish family
Adopting a second child
International adoption process panels
Parenting as a single
ADD, ADHD and school related issues
Multicultural families
Adoption homestudies: everything you need to know
Adoption for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut residents
For more information:
Kathy Brodsky, LCSW
Director, Ametz Adoption Program/JCCA
120 Wall Street - NYC - NY - 10005
212-558-9949
www.jccany.org
And for a reality dose,
here's a site that graphically illustrates how tough things are out there in the real world.
Somewhere around 25,000 people die of hunger in the world, that's one every 3.5 seconds. This site gives a glimpse at how that might look.