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ARC Is Coming!!!
The 24th Annual ARCheology Summer Intensives Are fast approaching.
Click here for more details and meet us on the Cape!
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A special thanks to all who called or wrote their State Senators on Tuesday May 19, 2009 in support of our ammendment. We're still fighting to win back state funding, any help at all is greatly appreciated!
You can find a list of your State Senator here
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Are you on Facebook?
Join our group!!!
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Check this out!
Click here to see the
"War/No More trouble"
Song played around the
world video!!!!!
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Food For Thought:
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile
-Albert Einstein
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The New Release
"The People They Brought Me"
by Penny Callan Partridge is a MUST read!
We have copies available at CFFC for $20. Pick yours up today!!!!
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A Message from CFFC CEO and Founder:
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Although our work began in 1976, our non-profit Center For Family Connections was incorporated in 1995- making 2010 our FIFTEENTH ANNIVERSARY!
Think of some ways you can celebrate our anniversary for and with us.
Contact Larisak@kinnect.org with ideas and donations.
Fifteen years ago - in 1995 - (the same year the explosive growth of the internet brought a wealth of information to homes, businesses and institutions) more than 20 million people became wired to the world, and the world of adoption was given the gift of Center For Family Connections.
In Egypt in 1995, archaeologists excavated one of the largest burial tombs ever discovered. The 3,000 year-old tomb contained the remains of some 50 sons of Pharaoh Ramses II - talk about family connections and siblings being kept together!
In 1995 the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opened, the first woman flew a U.S. spaceship -and CFFC started.
Things may have changed a lot in these fifteen years, but after all this time there are some things that have remained the same:
· Center For Family Connections still fights for funding and runs on a shoestring, asking staff to do more work for less pay in order to serve children and families in need.
·CFFC still writes grants and lobbies for our small contracts to continue at level funding, though much more is warranted in these tough times (funding from the Commonwealth has never been increased in twenty -five years!)
· CFFC still has hard-working, dedicated employees and board, who work to keep serving the children and families in adoption and in other complex blended families.
This summer marks the 24th Annual ARCheology Summer Intensives in Provincetown, Cape Cod from July 12-15, and we would love to see you there! Alison Larkin will be joining the festivities and will be presenting some of her new material. The ARC brochure is available on our website where you should stay tuned to see the schedule as it gets finalized.
Celebrate this upcoming anniversary with us. As a gift to CFFC:
· Send us clients
· Find us funding from corporations and state and federal grants as well as private individual donors and family foundations.
· Volunteer and help us with our website, help us with our auction and annual fundraiser on November 10th.
·Stay in touch with your State Representatives and Senators, reminding them of the invaluable services we provide to families in the Commonwealth. The more they hear from us, the less they will be able to overlook our needs for state funding!
·Help us by donating Apple Computers and other items that will make our work smoother.
·Help us to find inexpensive space near our current site to do trainings and art therapy groups. Better yet, find funding to do this!
·Donate some new plants to keep our office cheerful and welcoming to clients.
·Donate restricted funds to keep our therapy dog in training and in treats!
·Refer us to friends who will clean our windows and carpets, and provide new window treatments for our office at a discounted price.
Thanks for celebrating our anniversary with us and remember that May is National Foster Care Month - your contributions to us will help kids and families who are in transition on the way to permanency plans.
Sincerely,
Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao
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Special Guest Feature Alison Larkin
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Netherlands limits adoptions of US children
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THE HAGUE (AFP) - The Dutch government said Wednesday it would make
it more difficult to adopt American children, who formed the third
largest group of foreign adoptions in the Netherlands last year. "The
adoption of children from the United States will be subjected to
stricter requirements," the justice ministry said in a statement --
explaining that small children could easily be placed with American
families. From a total of 767 foreign adoptions last year, 56 were of American children -- the third largest group after China and Haiti. Under Dutch adoption regulations, it was preferable for a child to
be adopted from within his own area or country. And investigations have
shown that "small children can easily find homes with American
families," said the statement. "There appears to be no necessity to place these children outside the United States".The
ministry said the tougher criteria would not be applied to American
children of five years or older, those in foster care, or those who are
difficult to place because of health problems or other special reasons.
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