RegDay is an annual event to increase public awareness of the International Soundex Reunion Registry; a free humanitarian service better known as the ISRR. There are typically many sites nationwide. Among the venues that have hosted RegDay sites around the nation are such businesses as Borders Bookstore, Barnes & Noble, and other independent book stores.

Learn more about the ISRR from the official ISRR web site at www.isrr.net  

Volunteer for RegDay at the National RegDay web site: www.regday.org

The first DNA banking project designed exclusively to reunite adoptees, birth parents, and siblings in the world!

Contact Gale Sipple for more info

4th Annual Courage and Curiosity Fund Raiser

November 9, 2005 5:00 - 10:00 pm
Cambridge, MA

Adoption, foster care, and complex blended families

The Lifelong Impact of Adoption

Lecture & discussion by Marlou Russell, Ph.D.
Saturday, November 5th, 2005
Santa Monica College
Santa Monica Airport Campus
3171 S. Bundy Dr., Room #235
Santa Monica  CA  90066
1pm -4pm    $35 per person
Free parking on campus

Marlou Russell, Ph.D. is a psychologist, adoptee in reunion, and the author of Adoption Wisdom: A Guide to the Issues and Feelings of Adoption.

This class is for adult adoptees, birth parents, adoptive parents, those considering adoption, therapists, attorneys, the media, and anyone
interested in the emotional and psychological aspects of adoption.

For more information contact:

Marlou Russell, Ph.D.
1452 26th Street, Suite 103
Santa Monica, CA  90404
Phone (310) 829-1438
[email protected]
http://www.marlourussellphd.com

1st Annual Lancaster Regional Adoption Conference
November 11 & 12 in Lancaster, PA at Lancaster Bible College

The hosts - GIFT -gathering international Families
 Together and SOAR- sharing our adoptive resources would like to invite your members to join us in an adoption celebration 

 You can find all of the details, including workshop
 descriptions, registration fees and forms,
exhibitors in our market place and 
 www.lrac.info. 

Workshops will include:

 WISE Up:  Helping Children Respond to Questions
 About Adoption and Adoption and the Schools, both presented by Debbie Riley, Executive Director of CASE and author of Beneath the Mask: Understanding Adopted Teens; 
Lifebooks: Fostering Strength and Resilience in our Children, presented by Cindy Probst, author of Adoption Lifebook: A Bridge to Your Child's Beginnings;
 Medical and Developmental Issues of Internationally Adopted Children, presented by Dr. Gail Farber,  International Adoption Health Program, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Adoption Is A Lifelong Journey, presented by Laura Blum-Romano and Joanna Blum-Leo, twin sisters, adopted from Colombia as infants; along with several other topics.

 Elaine Goldman
Steering Committee
GIFT-gathering international families together
 [email protected]
 717-733-7288