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Join KAAN from June 21 – 23 for three days of keynotes, films, presentations, roundtables, performers, exhibits, support forums, and life-changing community. KAAN offers an Adoptee-Only track, as well as sessions for a general audience that are open to all. There are programs for adults aged 18+ and youth aged 8-17. Everyone is welcome, including adoptees, birth families, family members (adoptive parents, spouses/partners, siblings, and children of adoptees), service providers, and Korean Americans. If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at tech@wearekaan.org.

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Friday, June 21 • 2:30pm - 3:45pm
Adoptive Parents & Critical Thinking About Adoption

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Adoptive parents, especially those who adopted decades ago, should be critical thinkers on adoption: that can be complicated. Why is so much talk about adoption these days so negative? Isn’t adoption a good thing? How has adoption changed? What do you mean, child trafficking? Adoption industrial complex? What? We’ll discuss the history of adoption, developmental stages of adoptive parents, and how social media has promoted varied voices of adoptees. We will talk about racism, search, reunion, money, and more: what’s their intersection with adoption today in our families with adult children? We encourage adoptees and adoptive parents to attend.
Speakers
avatar for Maureen McCauley

Maureen McCauley

Maureen’s professional background is in child welfare advocacy, as former executive director of 3 adoption-related nonprofits. She’s presented workshops on adoption (i.e., transracial, international, older children, racism) across the US and in Canada. She is currently a consultant... Read More →
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Astrid Castro

Founder & CEO, Adoption Mosaic
Astrid Castro, founder/CEO of Adoption Mosaic. For over three decades, Astrid has served the adoption constellation through a variety of innovative programing designed to highlight the adoptee experience. Prior to creating Adoption Mosaic, Astrid worked in both the private and public... Read More →

Friday June 21, 2024 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Lakeshore B: Lobby Level
  General Session (Open To All Attendees)

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