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Hi, everyone!! My name is Julie, and I'm the moderator for this forum. Welcome, welcome, welcome. I'm an African American adoptive mom with 2 sons (5 and almost 3), and I also work with Pact, an Adoption Alliance. We started this forum to talk about the following questions: Where do we find support in our community and extended families for our journey through adoption - from thinking about whether to adopt to welcoming a baby or child into our home? How and when do we talk about adoption with our kids, our families, our community? How do we make an adoption within an extended family work? What are the differences between private adoptions and foster care adoptions, and how do we make each of them work for our families? How can we, as African American adoptive parents, support other adoptive families in our community? SO, the forum is for pre-adopt and post-adopt parents, and the idea is to do what we can to give each other info and support.
cdawson asked about factors people considered when choosing an agency. Marfrey's answer was great -- I'd add asking how many AA adoptive parents the organization has worked with in the past. Just a few, or do they regularly reach out to and work with African American adoptive parents?
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