ASFC are currently seeking Intercountry Adult Adoptees from Western Australia to nominate for the Intercountry Adoption  Peak Body. For further details, please refer to information below or contact Sonya Mahoney.

Peak Body Intercountry Adoption Nominations

 As some of you may be aware one of the recommendations of the Bishop Inquiry into Overseas Adoption was that that a peak body consisting of Non Government Organisations (NGOs), adoptees and professionals be convened by the Federal Attorney Generals Dept.  Finally we are at the stage of nominations, they close 17th September.   Adoption Support for Families and Children (ASFC),  formally Australia for Children and prior to that ASIAC WA is the only parent run adoption support group in WA, our membership though large does not include all families and adoptees through Intercountry Adoption (ICA) in Western Australia, we would like to nominate an Intercountry adult adoptee to be one of WA’s representatives. 

The commitment would be 3 - 4 meetings a year involving travel interstate paid for by the Commonwealth please read attached information sheet.  WA’s Department of Child Protection Adoption Service does not have an ICA consultative forum, however ASFC does meet regularly with DCP, and we are meeting to forward nominations on 28th August. 

If you would like to consider yourself available for nomination you can do so directly by nominating directly to the AG’s Department,  ASFC would also like to put forward a nomination from a WA Intercountry Adoptee .  

If you are interested please get back to us on info@asfc.info or you can call me on 9272 9156 to discuss further by the Monday 27th August.  You would need to complete a short resume to go with the nomination.  The peak body will hopefully be ongoing so the opportunity is for over time the wider ICA community to be involved.

Please forward this to other Intercountry adoptees you know.

Regards,

Sonya Mahoney

on behalf of Committee

Adoption Support for Families and Children Inc

www.asfc.info

Korean adult adoptees in Perth (Western Australia) interested in a social networking meetup are encouraged to contact Pia.

In response to the desires of many Korean adoptees, InKAS have anounced the availability of a Korean scholarship at Sogang or Ewha Universities.

The tuition fees are fully subsidised, 50% from the Korean government and 50% from the school.

There are only a few places offered, 20 from Sogang and 12 from Ewha University per year. The places for this year are already filled. However, adoptees who still wish to study may still receive a 50% subsidy on fees from the Korean government.

The winter periods are:
Sogang: 4th Decemeber 2006 - 22nd February 2007
Ewha: 10th of January 2007 - 21st March 2007

More information can be found at Sogang University and Ewha University websites.

Jinny Hyun-Jin Kim is a Korean studying in the United States as a graduate student of Virginia Commonwealth University majoring in graphic design.

He is working on a thesis project about how adopted Koreans can commincated effectively their life experiences and stories in visual forms.

This thesis project is to understand Adopted Koreans better and enhance perceptions of adopted koreans. The final form of the thesis project would be a visual documentation of the collective experiences or stories. As a research process, Jinny Hyun-Jin Kim is looking for volunteers willing to have an interview or respond to my questionnaire by email or mail.

Jinny Hyun-Jin Kim can be contacted at liebe1118@hotmail.com

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