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| A TIME OF TRANSITION |
| On January 1st of 2009, Dillon International joined forces with Dallas, TX-based Buckner International, a globally oriented ministry responding to children in need worldwide through humanitarian aid, volunteer mission trips, community enrichment/prevention programs, and a network of support services. These support services include residential and foster care, domestic and international adoption. The new affiliation combines all adoption services for both organizations under the Dillon International name. Besides our current adoption programs in China, India, Haiti, and Korea, Dillon will be adding Russia and Ethiopia to the list through our affiliation with Buckner. All other Dillon adoption education and post-adoption services will also continue to be offered to the adoption community-at-large. The AEC newsletter will continue to provide you, our reader, with the latest in adoption education and trends. |
| DETERMINING THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE CHILD |
| All U.S. states and territories require that the child's best interest be considered whenever such decisions regarding a child's placement are made. The States Statutes publication provides factors that may be considered by the court when making a "best interests" determination. For further information and links to each state's laws, policies and statutes, visit the childwelfare.gov website. | |
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| LOOKING FOR UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION ON INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION? |
| JCICS has worked over 25 years as a membership organization to help organizations, children, parents and others vested in international child welfare. Read JCICS' history.
Visit http://adoption.state.gov/ for current information from the U.S. Department of State's Office of Children's Issues specific to intercountry adoption.
NEPAL
In an announcement dated January 1, 2009, the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare (MWCSW) established procedures for processing adoptions pursuant to the Government of Nepal's (GON) new Terms and Conditions for adoptions. Read more at http://adoption.state.gov/news/nepal.html.
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| ADOPTIVE FAMILIES LIBRARY |
"A Theoretical Framework for Understanding Ethnic Socialization Among International Adoptees" by Jayashree Mchanty and Christina Newhill is in the October-December issues of Families in Society (Volume 89, Issue 4). This report reviews theoretical models and focuses on the need for balancing socialization of the child's birth culture with the current mainstream culture. For more information, visit http://www.familiesinsociety.org/currentissue.asp.
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| SPOTLIGHT ON CONFERENCES |
| The National Association of Christian Social Workers are holding their annual conference from October 29 - November 1, 2009, in Indianapolis, IN at the Hilton Indianapolis. Go to http://www.nacsw.org/conv_head_text.html for more info on attending.
The Midwest Adoption Conference will be held November 2, 2009, in Deerfield, IL. To learn more about this one day conference, go to http://www.midwestadoption.org.
The NYS Citizens' Coalition for Children Annual Training Conference will be held May 7 - 9, 2009, in Albany, NY. To learn more, visit http://www.nysccc.org. |
| UPCOMING DILLON/BUCKNER EVENTS |
| Be sure to visit Dillon's website for the list of Dillon's upcoming heritage weekends and camps. Applications to register for these fun-filled family events are now online. Dillon's heritage weekends and camps are open to all adoptive families regardless of whether they adopted through Dillon International or not. Come share in your child's birth heritage with other families and make a new friend or two along the way!
Visit http://www.dillonadopt.com/heritagecamp.htm for more info. |
| AEC'S MISSION STATEMENT |
| The mission of Dillon's Adoption Education Center is to provide family-centered education to address the needs of individuals and families who are touched by international adoption. Dillon International believes that education can benefit everyone. The Adoption Education Center's services are available to professionals, agencies and individuals.
Adoption in the United States has increased over the years and family-centered education is a growing need in all aspects of the family system. The Adoption Education Center provides education services to adoptive families in all stages of the adoption process.
The Adoption Education Center is part of Dillon International's lifelong commitment to families. | |
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We hope you enjoyed this issue of the "Adoption Education Quarterly" and want to thank you for your readership. We encourage you to forward this e-newsletter to your friends and colleagues, who have been touched by adoption, and to suggest that they also sign up to begin receiving Dillon's quarterly AEC e-news.
Sincerely, |
| Karin Price
Director of The Adoption Education Center, a service of Dillon International, Inc.
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| DISCLAIMER
We do not make any representation about the changes that take place in the information reported in this newsletter, and inclusion of items in the newsletter does not signify we support the authors' perspectives.
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