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April 3, 2010 North Bay, CA 10:00 am	Family Outing Babies through school age, children and parents will meet and enjoy venues throughout the Bay Area that will support and educate as well as being fun. Join Malaika Parker, Pact Family of Color Specialist, leads this opportunity to interact with other families in an environment to promote community and learning with other adoptive families of color.
April 4, 2010 East Bay Location 2:00pm - 4:00pm	Northern CA Bay Regional Adoptive Family Group Meeting Families with adopted children of color meet monthly at a park or venue location for informal gatherings on the first Sunday of the month. Locations alternate at various locations around the bay. The majority of the kids who attend regularly range in age from 0 to 12, but all ages are welcome. Specific locations will be sent out monthly to those who sign up to receive the emails. Pact staff do not attend these events.
April 13, 2010 Kaiser, Oakland CA 7 pm - 9 pm	Adoption Book and Film Discussion Group Featured Book: The Journey of the Adopted Self: A Quest for Wholeness By Betty Jean Lifton. This book is groundbreaking in naming many of the experiences of adopted people as they search for themselves in the context of their dual identity and connection to two families.
April 17, 2010 Oakland, CA 9:00 am - 4:00 pm	Baby Care for Adopted Infants is a baby care class designed especially for pre-adoptive parents! You will learn the fundamentals of baby care and won't have to sit through topics that don't necessarily apply to your family (such as post-partum care or the assumption that your child will be breast-fed). The class will teach you the basics of baby care as well as give you really practical information about how to promote attachment and read your new baby's cues. Other topics include how to hold your baby, bathing, feeding, clothing, sleeping patterns for the newborn vs. the older infant, health care and safety issues. This class is appropriate for parents-to-be of children up to 2-years-old when they come home. Featured speakers: Molly Brannigan, Infant Care Instructor and Nancy Curtis, Children's Hospital Oakland International Adoption Clinic.
May 1, 2010 East Bay, CA 10 am - 12 pm	Play Café Babies to early school age. Play groups give families of color the opportunity to get together in an informal environment. Malaika Parker, Pact Family of Color Specialist, leads this opportunity to interact with other families in an environment where parents can talk about successes and challenges while children enjoy playing with other children who share their experience.
May 2, 2010 East Bay Location 2:00pm - 4:00pm	Northern CA Bay Regional Adoptive Family Group Meeting Families with adopted children of color meet monthly at a park or venue location for informal gatherings on the first Sunday of the month. Locations alternate at various locations around the bay. The majority of the kids who attend regularly range in age from 0 to 12, but all ages are welcome. Specific locations will be sent out monthly to those who sign up to receive the emails. Pact staff do not attend these events.
May 11, 2010 Kaiser, Oakland CA 7 pm - 9 pm	Adoption Book and Film Discussion Group Featured Film: Adopted: We Can Do Better By Barb Lee and Nancy Kim Parson with Catherine Wigginton Greene. The filmmakers, who are Korean adoptees themselves, present us with the gripping story of two adoptive families at opposite ends of the adoption experience.
May 13, 2010 Oakland, CA 6:30pm - 8:00pm	Pact's Family of Color Adoption Orientation Join Malaika Parker, Pact's Family of color Specialist, for a FREE orientation to learn about the adoption process through Pact. We will answer many questions about different kinds of adoption with specific focus on the need for parents for children of color and the specifics of the experience of adopting an infant through Pact.
May 22, 2010 Oakland, CA 9:00am-4:00pm	AdopTalk is a workshop for adoptive and pre-adoptive families that focuses on talking with children about adoption. We will discuss the developmental stages that children go through and how each stage changes their understanding and questions about being adopted. We will also work with you on how to help your kids handle questions about adoption from others outside of your family. We will help parents think about behavior as the language of children and give research-based tips for understanding a child's point of view and feelings about adoption. The second half will focus on telling children their story including the answer to questions such as: What should you share? With whom? How should you handle painful or difficult information? What if you don't know their story, how can you fill in the gaps? Participants will have an opportunity to ask specific questions and share stories.
June 5, 2010 Oakland, CA 1 pm - 4pm	Understanding Adoptees Feelings Join Malaika Parker, Pact's Family of Color Specialist and adult adoptees for a potluck and discussion on Understanding Adoptees Feelings. This is a great opportunity to ask questions of those who have lived the experience and explore the lifelong issues that are part of the process. Adoptive parents of color and their parenting partners ONLY.
June 6, 2010 East Bay Location 2:00pm - 4:00pm	Northern CA Bay Regional Adoptive Family Group Meeting Families with adopted children of color meet monthly at a park or venue location for informal gatherings on the first Sunday of the month. Locations alternate at various locations around the bay. The majority of the kids who attend regularly range in age from 0 to 12, but all ages are welcome. Specific locations will be sent out monthly to those who sign up to receive the emails. Pact staff do not attend these events.
June 12, 2010 Oakland, CA 9:00am - 4:00pm	True Colors is a day-long workshop for transracial, international and interracial families that focuses on the issues inherent to parenting children across racial lines. You will hear from adults who were raised in transracial adoptive families about their experiences. We will present concrete suggestions for connecting your child to his or her racial heritage and information about how positive racial identity develops. We will focus on white privilege and how white parents sometimes bring blinders to some of the racial realities that their children will deal with as a fact of life as a person of color. Real life scenarios will be explored in an interactive approach to problem solving and understanding the obvious and sometimes not so obvious divides and boundaries that multiracial families must negotiate.
June 15, 2010 Kaiser, Oakland CA 7 pm - 9 pm	Adoption Book and Film Discussion Group Featured Book: Lucky Girl by Mei-Ling Hopgood. A beautifully written memoir about Hopgood's unexpected reunion with her birth family in China at the age of 23, details the slow evolution of their relationship over the next ten years and her deepening understanding her family's personal history.
July 3, 2010 East Bay, CA TBA	Family Outing Babies through school age, children and parents will meet and enjoy venues throughout the Bay Area that will support and educate as well as being fun. Join Malaika Parker, Pact Family of Color Specialist, leads this opportunity to interact with other families in an environment to promote community and learning with other adoptive families of color.
July 4, 2010 East Bay Location 2:00pm - 4:00pm	Northern CA Bay Regional Adoptive Family Group Meeting Families with adopted children of color meet monthly at a park or venue location for informal gatherings on the first Sunday of the month. Locations alternate at various locations around the bay. The majority of the kids who attend regularly range in age from 0 to 12, but all ages are welcome. Specific locations will be sent out monthly to those who sign up to receive the emails. Pact staff do not attend these events.
August 1, 2010 East Bay Location 2:00pm - 4:00pm	Northern CA Bay Regional Adoptive Family Group Meeting Families with adopted children of color meet monthly at a park or venue location for informal gatherings on the first Sunday of the month. Locations alternate at various locations around the bay. The majority of the kids who attend regularly range in age from 0 to 12, but all ages are welcome. Specific locations will be sent out monthly to those who sign up to receive the emails. Pact staff do not attend these events.
September 4, 2010 East Bay, CA 10 am - 12 pm	Play Café Babies to early school age. Play groups give families of color the opportunity to get together in an informal environment. Malaika Parker, Pact Family of Color Specialist, leads this opportunity to interact with other families in an environment where parents can talk about successes and challenges while children enjoy playing with other children who share their experience.
September 5, 2010 East Bay Location 2:00pm - 4:00pm	Northern CA Bay Regional Adoptive Family Group Meeting Families with adopted children of color meet monthly at a park or venue location for informal gatherings on the first Sunday of the month. Locations alternate at various locations around the bay. The majority of the kids who attend regularly range in age from 0 to 12, but all ages are welcome. Specific locations will be sent out monthly to those who sign up to receive the emails. Pact staff do not attend these events.
September 16, 2010 Oakland, CA 6:30pm - 8:00pm	Pact's Family of Color Adoption Orientation Join Malaika Parker, Pact's Family of color Specialist, for a FREE orientation to learn about the adoption process through Pact. We will answer many questions about different kinds of adoption with specific focus on the need for parents for children of color and the specifics of the experience of adopting an infant through Pact.
October 2, 2010 East Bay, CA 1 pm - 4pm	Racial Identity Formation for Children of Color - How To Support Strong Self Esteem Join Malaika Parker, Pact's Family of Color Specialist, in this discussion about how to instill hope while keeping our children safe in this age of change. Race is always a factor, we will discuss how to instill pride in our children as we talk about the racial landscape of their world. Childcare provided.
October 3, 2010 East Bay Location 2:00pm - 4:00pm	Northern CA Bay Regional Adoptive Family Group Meeting Families with adopted children of color meet monthly at a park or venue location for informal gatherings on the first Sunday of the month. Locations alternate at various locations around the bay. The majority of the kids who attend regularly range in age from 0 to 12, but all ages are welcome. Specific locations will be sent out monthly to those who sign up to receive the emails. Pact staff do not attend these events.
November 6, 2010 Oakland, CA TBA	Pact's Annual Family Party Join other adoptive families of children of color to celebrate our families and have fun together. Food, games and activities for children babies through teens. A great time to connect with others who share your experience and do your holiday book shopping from Pact's great selection of multicultural books for children and adults.
December 4, 2010 South Bay, CA TBA	Family Outing Babies through school age, children and parents will meet and enjoy venues throughout the Bay Area that will support and educate as well as being fun. Join Malaika Parker, Pact Family of Color Specialist, leads this opportunity to interact with other families in an environment to promote community and learning with other adoptive families of color.
December 5, 2010 East Bay Location 2:00pm - 4:00pm	Northern CA Bay Regional Adoptive Family Group Meeting Families with adopted children of color meet monthly at a park or venue location for informal gatherings on the first Sunday of the month. Locations alternate at various locations around the bay. The majority of the kids who attend regularly range in age from 0 to 12, but all ages are welcome. Specific locations will be sent out monthly to those who sign up to receive the emails. Pact staff do not attend these events.