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USCIS Webinar on Immigration Requirements
A message from NCFA:
Adoptive parents, as well as adoption agencies, want to make sure all requirements are met with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) when they bring their child into the U.S. in an intercountry adoption.
On Thursday, Oct 13, USCIS will be presenting a webinar on this topic for all agencies and families [...]
Training Opportuity for Friends of Adoptive Families
Lutheran Social Services of WI and UP presents a webinar by Elisabeth O’Toole:
What Adoptive Parents Would Like You To Know About Adoption
Topic: Welcoming Relatives and Friends Into Adoption
Date: Thursday, September 15, 2011
Time: 5:30 pm CST
Cost: Free
LSS of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan is hosting a webinar offering information and tools to help adoptive parents involve their [...]
Thoughts on Language
Thank you to Mary Collins for allowing us to share some of her thoughts on language. This jives with our experience as well. As you work through these issues that inevitably arise, please keep in mind that Kathy Killough, the CWA counselor, is available to talk with. She has tons of experience both as a [...]
CCC’s Transportation Need Met!!
Praise God!
We want to express our deepest gratitude for the overwhelming (and fast!) response of generosity to the transportation needs of Children’s Cross Connection in Ethiopia. Once again, the CWA family has pulled together and given above and beyond what was needed. Please see yesterday’s post, where the need to purchase a vehicle to support [...]
He carries us.
From a current adoptive family…
It was so great to get the call yesterday that court passed! After doing all the dossier-updating over the past several days and finally getting them to UPS at 4pm Wednesday … it was a very, very good reminder for us that we can run around and do all kinds of [...]
Are You Sleeping?
Adoption Learning Partners is introducing a new webinar for adoptive families struggling to get a good night’s sleep.
Join Dr. Julian Davies for a practical, humorous, and balanced exploration of why adopted children (and their parents!) often sleep so poorly, and what to do about it!
This webinar will help adoptive [...]
Adoptive Families Donate Water
CWA adoptive mom, Shannon Collins, has joined other adoptive moms in a special effort to donate three wells in rural Ethiopia. WCNC in Charlotte, NC recently featured their creative approach to providing awareness and solutions for the water crisis.
Full story at WCNC
Read more about how you can get involved in this project and a special [...]
NCFA’s Adoption Advocate
The National Council for Adoption provides adoption advocacy and awareness services for adoption professionals, families, birth parents, and agencies.
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NCFA is pleased to release Adoption Advocate No. 33 entitled, “Equalizing the Treatment of Foreign-Born Adopted Children.” In Adoption Advocate No. 33, NCFA highlights an adoption/immigration issue that often gets overlooked: the issue [...]
Mittens for Missions
Above is a picture of several CWA kids who worship at Charleston Baptist Church. Maddie Gladwell (7, Guatemala), Gray Gladwell (6, Guatemala), Benjamin Gladwell (4, Guatemala), Moli Jackson (6, China) and Grace Jackson (6, biological).
The AWANA program at Charleston Baptist Church recently collected 28 hats and 93 pairs of mittens for Acacia Village. We [...]
Change of Plans – Premiere
Dear Adoption Advocates,
As anyone who works on behalf of children knows, sometimes life gives you more than you bargained for.
Change of Plans is the fourth film in an initiative sponsored by Wal-Mart and P&G to bring back “Family Movie Night”. Change of Plans is the story of Sally and Jason Danville, [...]
