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SUMMARY:Adoption and Infertility - LIVE WEBINAR
DESCRIPTION:NEW CLASS ALERT –  \nApproximately 80 percent of all couples who become adoptive parents struggled with infertility. Infertility can feel like a betrayal of our bodies. Disappointment\, loss\, and shame are common experiences for those experiencing infertility. Infertility is a loss and one that needs to be adequately grieved. It’s a life experience that feels like it is our natural given right.  This lecture will address the grief of the adoptive parents who experienced infertility and how it can impact parenting the adopted child. The adopted child and the birth parent are grieving as well and how the grief on all points of the triad interfaces will be explored in this presentation.  Sara Forsythe Menna is a licensed clinical social worker who has been in private practice for over twenty years. She has worked within the school system as a school social worker and as a private therapist to children and couples. Currently she is in private practice on the north side of Chicago where she sees individuals and couples. (saramenna.com) She is an adoptive mother and has a specialty in adoption and infertility. \n  \nREGISTER HERE\n \n  \nFree for ACI Families/Alumni \n$30 for Non-ACI families \nPayment for Non-ACI families can be made by calling ACI during business hours: 773.334.2300
URL:https://www.adoptioncenterofillinois.org/event/adoption-and-infertility-live-webinar/
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SUMMARY:Activism in Adoption Series 2024 - hosted by On Your Feet Foundation
DESCRIPTION:Activism in Adoption Series 2024 – On Your Feet Foundation will present via zoom Gretchen Sisson\, PhD\, a sociologist who studies abortion and adoption in the United States and author of the upcoming book\, RELINQUISHED: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood\, being released in February 2024. \nAttendees who request adoption education credit will receive certificates to show attendance and a session outline can be provided to agencies.  Free for ACI Families/Alumni – For more information on how to sign up and attend email pbrown@adoptillinois.org \nDr\, Sisson is a researcher at Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health\, part of the Department of Obstetrics\, Gynecology\, and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California\, San Francisco. Her studies on adoption include hundreds of in-depth interviews with women who have relinquished infants for domestic adoption over the past sixty years\, with a particular focus on women who have relinquished since Roe v. Wade. Her research examining adoption decision-making after abortion denial (as part of The Turnaway Study) was cited in the Supreme Court’s dissent in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health from Justices Breyer\, Kagan\, and Sotomayor. In response to the oral arguments and decision in Dobbs\, she authored pieces in the Washington Post\, The Nation\, and the Washington Post (again). Gretchen’s research has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered and Consider This\, as well as in New York Magazine\, VOX\, and other outlets.
URL:https://www.adoptioncenterofillinois.org/event/activism-in-adoption-series-2024-hosted-by-on-your-feet-foundation/
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