It’s time for MAA’s Summer Hosting Picnics!

Please join us if you live in Utah, Illinois, or the surrounding states for our annual summer picnic! We’re excited to welcome several host children from Colombia to Illinois AND Utah this year! We welcome you to come out and meet the children and host families, MAA staff, and get an opportunity to learn about adoption, hosting, and advocacy. Bring your own lunch, and we will provide the activities, treats, and fellowshipping!

Utah Picnic:

July 21st, 9am-12pm

Logan, UT – Hyrum Gibbons Mount Logan Park

Illinois Picnic:

July 29th, 12-2pm

Rochester, IL - Rochester Park (in the Pavilion beside the large wooden playground)

Please email Anne Breedlove for more information.

Calling all teen or adult adoptees adopted over the age of five – we need to hear from YOU! We are working on an article about names. Would you be willing to share your name story? If so, please email Sarah Hansen and she will send you more information. Thank you!

A Conversation with Dr. Bruce Perry about Trauma

Join our friends at Creating a Family as Dr. Bruce Perry answers your questions about how trauma impacts adoptive, foster, and kinship kids and families. Dr. Bruce Perry is a child psychiatrist and neuroscientist, the principal of the Neurosequential Network, Senior Fellow of The Child Trauma Academy, and adjunct Professor at Northwestern University School of Medicine in Chicago. He is the author the numerous books, including co-author with Oprah Winfrey of What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing, and co-author of The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog.

Families home in June!