by Brenda Reul

Families Thru International Adoption Events

FTIA Families Educational Seminar

Our Ohio Office is organizing this seminar for all FTIA families, pre and post adoption, in the Indiana-Kentucky-Ohio area, who are welcome to join us on Saturday, September 18 from 12:30-3:30 pm at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Cincinnati for the seminar "Parenting to Promote Attachment" presented by Dr. Gregory Keck. For more information, email ohio@ftia.org or call 513-794-1515.

Informational Seminars

Saturday, September 11, 2004 -Southeast Christian Church, Louisville., 10:00 - 11:30 am

For details about other upcoming meetings, please see our 2004 Informational Seminar Schedule.

Adoption / Parenting Events

The Transracial Adoption Support Group meets every 4th Thursday of each month at Childplace Adoption Agency, 2420 Hwy 62, Jeffersonville, Indiana, 7-8:30pm. Serving southern IN & Louisville, KY metro area for anyone parenting a child outside his/her racial group.
Jeff & Krisanne Roll, 812-338-2115 or jklumber@aol.com.

The Kentuckiana Chinese School will hold registration and the first day of school on August 22. This year in addition to Chinese language classes, KCS has created a new class called "Chinese culture class". For more information contact Leda Wu at 290-8208.

To learn about Crane House's Fall Event—Taste of Asia or other special events sponsored by Crane House, call 502-635-2240.

Latin Family Connection is planning an Independence Day Party at Forest Park Community Church on September 11, 2004, for parents and children. For more information, contact Amy Lincoln at Lincoal@aol.com.

The Hispano Latino Coalition held the grand opening of its new location at 224 Woodbine on Tuesday June 8th.

The Latin American club of Louisville has scheduled the following events:

• FRIDAY, AUGUST 20 -Potluck and speaker
• SEPTEMBER - The Club will participate in several community festivals.
• FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29 - Halloween party and chili contest.
• FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19 - Elections
• FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17 - Christmas party.

For further information, contact Miguel Lagunas at MigLagunas@aol.com.

The Louisville Free Public Library is offering the following programs:

• María´s Bilingual Stories
• Saturday, September 25 at 11 a.m.
• Bilingual stories and fun times for children of all ages. It is not necessary to know how to speak Spanish.

Pinata Play
at the Bon Air Library Saturday, September 25, 2:30 p.m. Read "Hooray, a Pinata!," take a swing at a piñata, and learn about the virtual piñata concentration game. Ages 6 and up, sign up required.

Multicultural Book Party
Saturday, September 25, 3 p.m. Stories, crafts, games and treats. Ages 5 and up.

Celebrate International Heritage Month
Thursday, September 9, 7 p.m. Jennifer Ratoff, Metro Louisville Office for International Affairs.

Crane House Presentation
Wednesday, September 22, 6:30 p.m. Learn about the beautiful crafts of Japan, including origami.

For branch locations and further information, call 574-1611.

Louisville Metro
will celebrate the second annual "Celebrate Our International Heritage Month" in September. For information, contact:

Kentucky News:

Eva Atkinson is coordinating efforts in the Owensboro, Kentucky area to highlight "National Adoption Awareness Month" in November. A meeting of local adoption service providers and representative of adoption support groups is planned for Sept. 3 (at Brescia University) to brainstorm ideas. If you have ideas for NAAM or a November event planned for "National Adoption Awareness Month" in the Owensboro, Western Kentucky area, please contact Eva at evaa@omuonline.net or call her at 270-686-4282, and she will add it to the press release to area media.

If you want to plan your own events for your area, here are some online resources compiled by Eva, an FTIA Kentucky Board Member:

National Adoption Awareness Month (November)

• www.nacac.org/resources_adoptionmonth.html
• national-adoption-month.adoption.com
• national-adoption-month.adoption.com/calendar.html
• www.nacac.org/AdMoGuide/recruitment.pdf
• naic.acf.hhs.gov

National Adoption Day (Sat. Nov. 20, 2004)

• http://www.nationaladoptionday.org/2004/index.asp
• nationaladoptionday.org/2004/participate/materials.asp

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