Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care

Foster care is tough on kids, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it is easy to transition to adoption.  What can you do to make this move easier. Our guests will be Kim Phagan-Hansel, editor of Fostering Families Today magazine and The Foster Parenting Toolbox; and Madeleine Krebs, Clinical Coordinator at the Center for Adoption Support and Education with over 35 years of experience providing psychotherapy for families with foster and adopted children. foster care adoption, adopting from foster care, foster-adopt

Infertility treatment is under attack by various state legislative bills. What can you do to protect your right to treatment, including IVF? What other legislation affects infertility--requirements for insurance to pay for treatment; tax credit for infertility treatment. Join our guests, Barb Collura, Executive Director of Resolve: The National Infertility Association to talk about the threats to infertility treatment and what you can do. infertility, fertility, infertility treatment, in vitro fertilization, in vitro fertilisation, IVF, IUI, multiple births, embryos, frozen embryos, embryo disposal, stem cell research

What are your odds of getting pregant with In Vitro Fertilization? Should you try another cycle of IVF.  What are your odds of success? Our guests Dr. Mylene Yao, co-founder and CEO of Univfy Inc., a company that develops personalized prognostics for fertility patients and physicians. In her previous role as a National Institute of Health (NIH)-funded assistant professor at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, Dr Yao, together with her scientific collaborator and co-founder Professor Wing Wong, developed deep phenotype profiling as an approach to in vitro fertilization (IVF) prediction modeling. We also have with us Dr. David Seifer, Clinical Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology  at New York University School of Medicine in New York City, Scientific Director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Maimondies Medical Center and Co-Director of Genesis Fertility and Reproductive Medicine in New York City. Infertility, unexplained infertility, male factor infertility, fertility treatment,

Members of the Ohio Birthparent Support Group will discuss Difficult Dialogues: The Essential Conversations that Prospective Adoptive Parents MUST Have Before, During and After Placement.  What they wish all current and prospective adoptive parents knew about how birthmothers feel and what they need in the adoption relationship. birthmother, birth mother, birth parent, first mother, adoption, placing a child for adoption, domestic adoption, open adoption, adopting a baby, adopting a child

Join our guest , the wonderful Deborah Gray, author of two of the seminal books on attachment parenting and bonding in adoption, Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma, and Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today’s Parents.

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What are the legal and immigration implications with seeking third party reproduction in another country? Will you be able to get your child home? What must you prove to get your child citizenship?  What are the special concerns of couples from other couples coming to the US for infertility treatments that are not allowed in their home country? Join our guests, Immigration and Reproductive Law Attorney Irene Steffas and Professor of Immigration Law at Mercer University School of Law, Scott Titshaw. fertility tourism, seeking fertility treatment abroad, infertility treatment is a foreign country

Can your environment affect your fertility? What everyday chemicals, toxins, foods, and products should you avoid when you are pregnant? Join our guest, Dr. Tracey Woodruff, Director of the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment at the University of California San Francisco to discuss how the environment affects your fertility and pregnancy. pollution, pregnancy, chemical, drugs, medicine, toxins, pesticides, hormone disruptors, fertility, infertility, trying to conceive, birth defects, genetics

The Primal Wound theory has been dividing the adoption world for years. Dr. Marcy Axness, an adoption therapist , adult adoptee, and author of Parenting for Peace, has written eloquently on the topic and will be our guest to explain what adoptive parents need to understand about this theory, and how it impacts their children both now and in the future. Adoption. adoptive parenting. Adopting a child. Parenting adopted children. Psychological development of adopted children.

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Are you eligible for the refundable adoption tax credit for 2011. what changes are planned for 2012 in this tax credit for adoption. Our guests are Mark McDermott, adoption attorney and adoption tax credit expert, Megan Lindsey, Director of Infant Adoption Training Initiative and Assistant Director of Policy for the National Council For Adoption, and Josh Kroll, the adoption tax credit expert at the North American Council on Adoptable Children.

What are the unique infertility issues facing African Americans and what resources are available to help?  Our guest to discuss this topic will be Dr. Desireé McCarthy-Keith, a reproductive endocrinologist with Georgia Reproductive Specialists and she also has Master of Public Health in maternal and child health; Dr. Camille Hammond, with the Cade Foundation, an organization that works  to increase awareness about infertility and family building solutions in all communities, especially in underserved communities.  ; and Regina Townsend, with the Broken Brown Egg.org. a support group and information resource on African American reproductive health and infertility.