LGBT Parenting: "Out" Parenting in a Straight World

This interactive seminar will encompass both the process of LGBT adoption (restrictions, stereotypes, barriers, etc.), as well as the joys and challenges after your child is home, such as living as an "out" family, how to answer questions from nosy outsiders, how to equip your child to deal with differences, and identity. Ideas will also be shared as how to find accepting and affirming services such as daycare, schools, church, doctors, etc.

Presenters: Kate Oliver, MSW, LCSW-C, Social Worker in private practice, daughter of gay fathers and COLAGE Speak OUT member, mother of two children; Ryan LaLonde, COLAGE National Board Chair and Metro DC coordinator and son of lesbian mother and pending adoptive parent; Katherine Rodeffer, M. Ed., school educator for 27 years, and adoptive parent; Jennifer Klotz, Assistant Director, Center for Adoptive Families and adoptive parent

Date: Saturday, November 10, 2007
Place: 10230 New Hampshire Avenue | Suite 200 | Silver Spring, MD | 20903
Time: 1:30 – 4:00 pm Fee: $50/family

If you want to register, please contact Jennifer Klotz at jklotz@adoptionstogether.org.