Post-Adoption Center for Education and Resources

PACER is looking to add new BOARD Members if anyone in Northern California is interested. Please email [email protected] if you are interested or have any questions. Our current efforts are focused on support, maintaining and expanding our peer support groups, connecting the adoption community through social media, and supporting adult adoptee access to original birth certificates.

Hey everyone, Check out Adoptee Elena S. Hall's new book "Through Adopted Eyes: A Collection of Memoirs from Adoptees." It recently came out in October and features adoptee perspectives and interviews about adoption.... https://www.amazon.com//069/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0 *Disclaimer - PACER does not support every view expressed in this book

https://www.facebook.com/kismetadoptionawareness/videos/437003530040110/ Celebrating adoptee filmmaker Shelby Kilgore, Check out a preview of her new film, called Beyond Biological, wherein she looks at all different types of adoption in Appalachia, from kinshipcare, legal guardianship, open adoption, and international adoption. She allows a space for people to tell their stories, good, bad and everything in between.... *not all views expressed in the video are supported by PACER

https://www.pactadopt.org/events/event_detail.asp?event=426 Hey All, on November 3rd, one of our partner organizations Pact, an Adoption Alliance will be hosting a day conference from 9am-4pm for Adoptive parents of color. Click on the link for more information!...

A great article by Anne Heffron! http://www.anneheffron.com//2/10/2/the-language-of-longing

This describes some adoptees!

https://dearadoption.com//dear-adoption-you-left-me-angry/ "If I wasn’t broken from adoption, I wouldn’t be so damn hard to love."

Please contact Richard Uhrlaub if you are interested! When: September 7-9, 2018 Where: Devil's Thumb Ranch Tabernash, CO... https://www.maleadoptees.com/

https://dearadoption.com//01/dear-adoption-what-do-i-dream/ An Adoptee's voice Dreams!

"You bring the worst in me and the best in me." "You gave me a heart to reject the world." "You gave me a heart to change the world."... https://dearadoption.com//dear-adoption-in-a-world-of-lab/

My focus is on the fact that there are virtually no international adoptee groups who support this petition. There are no international birth parents.

Congratulations to Karen & Team Access Connecticut - equal rights for all CT adoptees moves to the next phase!

Connecticut residents - be heard, use your voice now!