Navigating Adoption

two Chinese TRA working to share adoptee stories and provide advocacy, awareness and education | mains: @zippyzoe2000 @_ceisenhauer_

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Don't forget to fill out our Adoptee Spotlight form in our bio to be featured on our page! We will have NAAM statements again, so be on the lookout for the form next week!

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Today is November 1st, which means it's the start of National Adoptee/Adoption Awareness Month (NAAM)! Here is some brief information about what NAAM is and what we, as an organization, plan to do this month.

Happy November and NAAM!

Adoptees, Please take time for yourself

[cosette epp @_ceisenhauer_]

National Adoptee Awareness Month (NAAM) is in 16 days.

Please remember if you’re not an adoptee, please bring in adoptee perspectives to the conversation and not just adoption agencies or adoptive parents. ALL perspectives need to be added, not the ones that fit your narrative.

[Meredith Chen @meredithchenn]

Cosette Eisenhauer-Epp, co-founder of the advocacy network @navigatingadopt said many adoptees struggled with feelings of abandonment and missing a piece of their identity and she felt glad children would grow up in their birth culture without “feeling forced to assimilate”.

[Meredith Chen @meredithchenn]

I spoke with a would-be parent among 300 or so affected US families, along with Chinese child protection experts, advocates, past adoptees, and adoption organisations to hear their perspectives on China’s international adoption and Beijing’s abrupt ban.

https://t.co/uIDFjmRf4h

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Here is the link to register!

https://t.co/Dt2TxJZETh

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Hi everyone! Navigating Adoption, an adoptee-founded organization is hosting an adoptee-only discussion on China's recent end to International Adoption. It is open to all adoptees, regardless of Chinese descent. It will take place on Zoom on September 17th at 6:30 pm EST.

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We want to continue to take time and space for those who are grieving and processing everything. We understand that people have different emotions about this, and it’s okay. We are here for our Chinese Adoptee community and our adoption community.

[cosette epp @_ceisenhauer_]

I have no words right now. All I know is that the foster and adoption community needs to rally with Michael Oher. This right here is the definition of white saviorism. They used Michael Oher and his story for profit.

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Co-Founder Cosette Eisenhauer gives everyone a glimpse into what it is like to be an adoptee. Here are some battles I’ve personally had to face with being an adoptee.

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Listen on Apple Podcasts at https://t.co/Zn2FToHWm1
Listen on Spotify https://t.co/BrAY4fKbvs

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The co-founders of Navigating Adoption had the opportunity to be guests on the podcast Thriving Adoptees by Simon Benn.

Hear us share about the adversity that adoption brings into our lives as transracial adoptees and what thriving adoptees means to us.

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Here are 4 questions that we have created that can hopefully allow adoptive parents to reflect and become self-aware of the way their children grew up.

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Here are 4 questions that we have created that can hopefully allow adoptees to reflect and become self-aware of their emotions and the way they were brought up and Now.

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#adoptees #adopted #aapi #educators #adoption #aapi #AAPIHeritageMonth #AAPIHM #aaapi

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Read about a personal microaggresion in the link below from our co-founder Cosette Eisenhauer ! (@_ceisenhauer_)

https://t.co/BBGzPhefpC