KAAN 2010 Conference

K orean American
A doptee
A doptive Family
N etwork

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Conference Overview

Program subject to change without notice.

Friday Sessions

1:00 PM	Sign In
3:00 PM	Family Cultural Activity
5:00 PM	Dinner on Your Own
7:30 PM	Resilience - Film Family Cultural Activity

Saturday Sessions

7:00 AM	Continental Breakfast
8:00 AM	Opening Announcements
8:15 AM	Opening Keynote
9:30 AM	Loving What Is I Am a Seoul Survivor Adoption Agencies in Korea Provide Post Adoption Support Bridging the Gap Between Korean Americans and Korean Adoptees. Adult Adoptees as Parents: New Layers in the Adoptee Journey
11:00 AM	HallyWho? ASK: Why the Special Adoption Law in Korea is Being Revised "Me? A leader?!" - Leadership models for transracial, international adult adoptees The role of the Church in Healing for Adoptees Shifting Dreams: Embracing Reality in the Launching of Our Children
12:30 PM	Keynote Lunch
2:15 PM	De-Mythifying Adoption Adoptees and Mental Health Issues Diversity Programs for the Adoptee Because I Loved You What if? Pondering the Imponderables Around International Adoption and Finding Peace, Or Not
3:45 PM	A Long Journey Attachment, Love, and Couples: Themes in Couples Where One or Both Partners are Adopted An Unfolding Relationship between an Adult Adoptee and her Birth Father Is White Privilege Getting In Your Way? Ten Important Tools Every Transracially Adoptive Parent Must Have in their Toolbox
6:00 PM	Keynote Dinner
8:30 PM	Supporting Each Other Support Group for Non-Asian and/or Bio Siblings of Adoptees Supporting Each Other Supporting Each Other

Sunday Sessions

7:30 AM	Prayers, Meditation, Reflection, and Candle lighting
8:00 AM	Continental Breakfast
8:45 AM	White, Yellow, Other: Locating Korean American Adoptees in Asian America The Past, Present and Future of G.O.A.'L. I Didn't Mean It That Way: A Family Talks about Racism in Trans-racial Adoption The Psychological Death of a Mother Raising Your Male Korean Child: Special Issues and Concerns Youth Program
10:10 AM	InKAS The Adoptee and Relationship Issues Adoption Healing Through Homeopathy Narrative of Adoption KOHSA: Korean Heritage School for Adoptees Youth Program
11:45 AM	Closing Keynote