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Ethica: Call for papers

LGBT Adoptions:  Our Community, Our Voices Conference Ethica and the Alliance Project November 5, 2010 We are pleased to invite members of the LGBT adoption community (birthparents, adoptees, and adoptive parents), adoption professionals, researchers, and practitioners to submit presentations and papers that address issues of representation for the “LGBT Adoptions: Our Community, Our Voices Conference” at the University of Arizona, Tucson.  Traditionally adoption conferences have focused on the psychosocial well-being and adjustment of adopted children, adoption policies, or best practices by adoption professionals.  For this conference, we aim to gather adoption triad members and share the struggles and joys of the LGBT adoption community through their own experiences, voices, and with their peers and adoption service providers.  Our goals are: -       to create opportunities for mentorship with LGBT prospective adoptive parents and other triad members -       to provide educational opportunities for adoption service providers (CEW/CLEs) -       to develop sustainable outreach efforts between LGBT prospective adoptive parents ...Click here to read more »