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WHAT IS IT
Adoption Dialog is a podcast exploring the complexities of adoption from all perspectives, including birth parents, adopted people and adoptive parents.
WHO HOSTS?
It is hosted by two women of different generations, an Adoptive Mother, Sally Baffour (AKA Auntie Sally) and an adopted Foundling, Judith Alexis Craig.
Sally Baffour is an adoption consultant and an experienced single adopter (of Ghanaian heritage) with trans-culturally adopted twin boy and girl, now 32 years old, of Caribbean heritage. Sally, originally an interior architect, changed professions to become an adoption consultant after she adopted her twins.
Judith Alexis Craig is a foundling of Haitian heritage who was found as a newborn baby in a ditch in Haiti. She was adopted as a baby transracially into a White Canadian family and eventually became a Social Worker working in the UK for 12 years as an Adoption Social Worker. She is now back in Canada, working as a Social Worker and an Adoption Therapist.
When Where To whom?
Co-hosted by Sally, who is based in the UK and Judith in Canada, the online podcast is open to the public and focuses on the complexities of adoption. It is transmitted monthly through zoom on the last Sunday of every month at 7.30 pm (BST Time zone).
Why?
Judith and Sally come from both ends of the adoption spectrum, with a wealth of unique personal and professional experiences gathered in over 30 years (each) in adoption and fostering. With their unique and expansive knowledge in the field, they decided to join forces to shine a light on all aspects of adoption and fostering, with a particular focus on giving voice to the historically underrepresented voices and experiences of adopted people and biological parents.
How
At Adoption Dialog, we will interview guests and explore topics related to birth (origin) parents, adopted children/adults, adoptive parents, foster parents, and looked-after children/adults and all the issues that affect them. The podcast provides a unique opportunity to explore the complex layers of adoption. As the programme is online, we are reaching a broad cross-section of people in the UK and abroad.
Objective
Educate the public constructively about adoption issues and offer support and guidance to all on the adoption journey.
Goal
Our goal is to:
– Dispel myths and misconceptions about adoption
– Provide a safe space for people on the adoption journey to heal through sharing and storytelling
– Provide peer support and coaching to adoptive parents
– Voice to those with a ‘living’ experience of adoption
– Provide therapeutic support to adoptees and adopters
– Signpost people with a ‘living’ adoption experience to appropriate support agencies.
Outputs Services we will be offering
Provide an information gateway for the public and prospective adoptive families:
– on the adoption process
– educate them on the core adoption and fostering issues
– Encourage prospective adopters to come forward to adopt to reduce the significant number of children waiting for permanent placements, homes, and families.
– Identify and support families willing and able to provide homes for children with complex needs.
– Encourage those who want to adopt to contact us to help and guide them with hand-holding support.
Get involved Inviting guests for the podcast
Share your story, and let us learn from your experience
– Birth parents
– Adoptees (adopted people)
– Adoptive parents
– Adoption workers, professionals, and support groups
– Therapists
– Specialists
– Other
– Birth parents
– Adoptees (adopted people)
– Adoptive parents
– Adoption workers, professionals, and support groups
– Therapists
– Specialists
– Other
Title Jani na
Tell us what you want to know and topics you would like us to cover.
From the public
From the public
Impact
Better understanding by the public of people with a ‘lived’ experience of adoption and fostering
Remove the stigma of people living through the experience of adoption and fostering
Compassion and empathy with birth parents.
Reduce trauma for people living
Remove the stigma of people living through the experience of adoption and fostering
Compassion and empathy with birth parents.
Reduce trauma for people living
Values
Share honestly
Share boldly
Share authentically
Kindness
Compassion
Empathy
Open-minded, None-judgmental
Be open to correction and open to learning
Share boldly
Share authentically
Kindness
Compassion
Empathy
Open-minded, None-judgmental
Be open to correction and open to learning
Statement
We believe that wherever possible, taking children from their birth parents and placing them for adoption must always be a last resort because family preservation is the most important support for any child. Therefore, whenever safe to do so, more supports need to be provided to help families maintain their children’s care within their own families and family network.
Share your story, and let us learn from your experience
If you have an adoption or fostering story to share and would like to be interviewed for the Adoption Dialog show, fill out the interview form with a brief outline (250 words) of your story and we will reach back out to you.
Check out our website for more information:
www.adoptiondialog.com
Phone
(+62) 8896-2220 | (021) 111 444 90
adoptiondialog@gmail.com