Building Bridges of Connection
The First Annual
Conference
April 21 & 22, 2017
Monroe County Convention Center
Bloomington, Indiana
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Welcome Message
Welcome to Bloomington, Indiana and the first annual Indiana Adoptee
Network conference. Our theme, Building Bridges of Connection, reflects the
beautiful covered bridges Indiana has throughout the beautiful state. We have
many experiences to offer from plays and workshops to support groups and
films. We do ask that you please respect each other as individuals and be
understanding of the different path and journeys of each person.
We are more then excited to be heading towards our great opening date of July 1 st,2018. Those of you who live
in a state that has open access to original birth certificates know how important it is and what an amazing feat
we have accomplished. If you are an Indiana adoptee and need more information on registering with the state
or finding out more about what you need to do before July 2018, please see one of our board members.
On behalf of Indiana Adoptee Network welcome to an exciting two day event that we hope touches you for a
lifetime.
Pam Kroskie
President
WELCOME TO BLOOMINGTON INDIANA
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Schedule - Friday, April 21st
8:00 - 8:45 am
REGISTRATION
Lobby
9:00 – 9:15 am
WELCOME MESSAGE
Zebendon Room West
9:15 – 10:15 am
KEYNOTE - LESLIE PATE MACKINNON LCSW
Zebendon Room West
A BRIDGE TO REALITY
Leslie, a first mother, psychotherapist and trainer is working towards a paradigm shift in adoption. She has
been building bridges toward a destination with more accurate adoption narratives. Just like the tobacco
industry, it's time to challenge the benefits of the sugar-coated version of adoption, generated by the billion
dollar industry. She will also discuss trauma that occurs when mother and child are separated at birth and
outline a number of prevention tactics.
Leslie Pate Mackinnon LCSW, has practiced psychotherapy for four decades. She resides in Atlanta and presents both nationally and
internationally on the issues that impact families conceived through adoption and third-party reproduction. She’s been featured on GOOD
MORNING AMERICA, CNN, DAN RATHER REPORTS and THE KATIE COURIC SHOW along with her oldest son. Leslie is
featured in a book The Girls Who Went Away, and a documentary A GIRL LIKE HER. Drawn to the field by placing her two firstborn
sons for adoption when she was a teenager, her passion is to educate as many therapists as possible; before she drops! She currently
serves on the Donaldson Adoption Institute’s Board of Directors, and Concerned United Birthparent’s Board of Directors. She offers
consultation for the new TLC program, LONG LOST FAMILY. Her job is that of helping the participants manage the emotional intensity
of the reunion process. For more information about Leslie, please visit www.lesliepatemackinnon.com
10:15 – 10:30 am
BREAK & SNACK
10:30 – 11:45 am
WORKSHOPS
A. SHERRIE ELDRIDGE
UNSEEN STRUGGLES OF ADOPTEES
Lobby
Zebendon Room West
Without knowing it, many adoptees are swimming with the sharks! Just as a wise swimmer doesn’t swim with
red flags on the beach, adoptees must know how to recognize red flags in their family system and how to get
help from fellow adoptees or a trusted friend. This presentation will teach a system for adoptees to recognize,
know the meaning of family red flags, yellow flags, green flags, purple and blue flags, and then action steps to
self-care.
Sherrie Eldridge is an internationally-recognized speaker and author of the best-selling Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their
Adoptive Parents Knew, now it it’s tenth year of publishing, with sales exceeding 135,000 copies. An adopted person herself, Sherrie
blends practical adoption truths with life-changing principles. She is the author of four books including Twenty Life Transforming
Choices Adoptees Need to Make, her first children's book, Forever Fingerprints, and Questions Adoptees are Asking.
B. CHARLES MEISER
FINDING & CONNECTING WITH DNA
Hansen Room East
This workshop focuses on using DNA tools to identify possible relatives and connecting them to adoptees. It is
designed for all level of expertise—Newbies to Expert. The following questions are addressed: Why test?
Which tests? Where test? What's next? The workshop covers third party tools as well as those provided by
testing companies. It uses different types of teaching-learning activities to meet the needs of participants with
different learning styles. Participants receive extensive resources to assist them solve their puzzle. General
training workshop for an audience with mixed experience utilizing DNA to make relationship connections.
Charles Meiser, Genealogist/Historian at Meiser Research, is a retired business associate professor and Sam Walton Free Enterprise
Fellow at Lake Superior State University, Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan. He has been using DNA tools for over 10 years and researching
family history for 25 years. He was born in Muncie and grew up in Bloomington. Charles holds a B.S. Electrical and Computer
Engineering, M.S. Economics and Economic Education. Administrator, Meiser DNA Project. Co-administrator, Palatine Project (FTDNA)
11:45 – 1:00 pm
LUNCH (on your own, see map in program)
1:00 - 2:15 pm
WORKSHOPS
A. LISA ROBINSON
ASK A BIRTH FAMILY SEARCHER
Zebendon Room West
How I became a searcher and Q & A from the audience on any topic pertaining to searching for birth family. I
will offer tips and share my "secrets" on how I conduct successful searchers and steps on how to start your
search with or without a name. The importance of obtaining your Non-Identifying report and questions to ask
your adopted family to help you have a successful search. I will speak about adoption agency questions and
how to get more information out of your case worker. Also, tips on how to approach first contact and the
importance of making a positive first impression.
Lisa Robinson is an adoptee and a Birth Family Searcher who specializes in California. After hitting so many brick walls in her own
search Lisa reached out to The Search Guru, and adopted mother, Colleen Buckner. Colleen was able to put all the puzzle pieces together
and reunited Lisa with her birth mother the very next day. That day just happened to be her birth mothers 50 th birthday. Lisa is studying to
be a Professional Genealogist and Personal Family Historian and speaks regularly at adoption conferences in her community and
throughout the country. She is a member of Indiana Adoptee Network, Concerned United Birth parents, National Genealogy Society and
several other organizations. She contributes her time and advice writing a bimonthly column about searching for birth family with
Adoption Today magazine.
Currently Lisa is working on a fictional novel based on her own experiences of being the searcher and the searchee. When she is not
searching and reuniting she can be found working part-time at a local winery in the beautiful county of San Luis Obispo, California where
she resides with her husband and their four furry rescues.
B. BROOKE RANDOLPH LMHC
RELATIONSHIP BUILDING & BOUNDARIES
Hansen Room East
As the organizing editor of the upcoming book It's Not About You: Understanding Adoptee Search, Reunion,
& Open Adoption (for birth and adoptive parents and their therapists), Brooke believes in the transformative
power reunion can have for adoptees. Even when the process is wonderful, it is never simple. Boundaries can
help all members of the triad understand what to expect, what to share (and not share), and how to support each
other. This workshop will review boundaries that may be helpful, how to define boundaries, and what to do
when boundaries need to be enforced, in a way that promotes positive relationships rather than damages
relationships.
Brooke Randolph LMHC is a therapist, wife, and parent (adoptive, step, one-time kinship, and even grand). She is also a private
practice counselor in Indianapolis, Indiana. She is the author of The Bully Book: A Workbook for Kids Coping with Bullies, a
contributing author to Adoption Therapy: Perspectives from Clients and Clinicians on Processing and Healing Post-Adoption Issues
(2014), and the organizing editor for the soon to be published It's Not About You: Understanding Adoptee Search, Reunion, & Open
Adoption. She has also authored adoption education materials. She was a founding member of MLJ Adoptions, Inc., where she served as
the VP of Social Services for seven years. She is a Young Professionals Advisory Board member for The Villages, which is Indiana’s
largest not-for-profit child and family services agency, serving over 1,400 children and their families each day. Brooke adopted an older
child internationally as a single woman, which she considers one of the most difficult and most rewarding things she has ever done. She
has presented at numerous conferences and workshops throughout North America on a variety of topics.
2:15 – 2:30 pm
BREAK & SNACK
2:30 – 3:45 pm
WORKSHOPS
A. EILEEN DRENNEN
YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW
Lobby
Zebendon Room West
I went into reunion with my 21-year-old son in 1997 thinking I was prepared. I had read the books, plugged
into my local support group and attended adoption conferences. What I was not prepared for was the feeling of
being thrown back in time, to the lost 20-year-old I had been, with all her fear and insecurity and need. It took
me years to fully understand that process, and figure out how to grow the girl I'd been into the woman I wanted
to be – a process I detail in my forthcoming memoir. Whether you're well into your own reunion or just
starting out, my aha moments will resonate with your own experiences, or shed light on the journey ahead.
Eileen Drennen is a writer and editor with 27 years of daily newspaper experience most, at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where she
over-saw award-winning arts coverage, managed teams of critics and reporters and wrote profiles and reviews. She earned a MFA in
Creative Writing from Queens University in Charlotte N.C. In 2009 and taught critical writing at the University of Georgia in 2011. She
has been published in the online magazine The Rumpus.
B. DAWN FRIEDMAN MSEd LPCC
CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS OF REUNION
Hansen Room East
As Indiana adoptees gain access to their birth certificates, counselors will need to be prepared to support their
adult adopted clients in decision making around search and reunion. Session attendees will be given an
overview of search and reunion; an introduction to the clinical issues and implications; and practical strategies
for supporting their clients. The presenter will also share community supports and resources for clients.
Dawn Friedman MSEd LPCC is a counselor in private practice in Columbus Ohio who works with all members of the adoption
constellation. She is a volunteer with Adoption Network Cleveland and Ohio Birthparent Group co-facilitating open groups, which bring
together birth parents, adult adoptees and adoptive parents to support and learn from each other. Dawn's writing about adoption has
appeared in numerous publications including Adoptive Families, Salon.com, Brain Child, and MsMagazine.com among others.
You can learn more about her at www.BuildingFamilyCounseling.com
3:45 – 4:00 pm
BREAK
4:00 – 5:00 pm
WRAP-UP
7:00 – 8:00 pm
ENTERTAINMENT - PATTI HAWN
GOOD GIRLS DON'T
Zebendon Room West
Zebendon Room West
Patti Hawn, sister of legendary film actress Goldie Hawn, author of Good Girls Don't, she brings the birth
mother's point of view of her teenage pregnancy, the loss of her son to adoption, and the search to reunite 40
years later.
As an entertainment publicist Patti Hawn has worked on over thirty major motion pictures. Her film credits
include some of the most acclaimed films of the last decade including winner of two academy awards “GHOST,” “GLORY,” winner of
three academy awards, and the box office hit “OVERBOARD”. Most recently she has served as the unit publicist on “RAISING
HELEN,” “AUGUST RUSH,” and “BRIDE WARS.”
Good Girls Don’t is the debut literary effort of Patti Hawn. Her book is a deeply personal first-hand account of what it was like to be
trapped in an unwanted pregnancy at the close of an era where home economics took precedence over sex education. Her story starts in
her childhood home in Takoma Park, Maryland, where as a teenager she became pregnant by her high school boyfriend. In the typical
“solution” of the era, she is sent away to have the baby in secret and gives up her infant son on the day he is born. This is where the
typical adoption story begins…and ends.
She began her first career as a crisis intervention counselor in Silver Spring, Maryland and subsequently moved to Los Angeles where she
became the director of a social service program assisting disabled people in rehabilitation services.
Today Patti lives in Manhattan Beach, California with her husband and travels to India, Nepal, and Thailand where she works in
humanitarian efforts.
8:00 – 9:00 pm
ENTERTAINMENT - BRIAN STANTON
BLANK - A One-Man Play
Zebendon Room West
Brian Stanton was born Blank then adopted as Brian through Catholic Charities in the closed state of
Missouri. A brave soul made a copy of Brian's original birth certificate, gave it to his mother who in turn gave
it to Brian. Brian is now in reunion with his birth mother. Award-winning, critically acclaimed “BLANK” oneman play explores adoption & identity. Playing 12 characters, adoptee Brian Stanton embarks on a quest for
identity ultimately discovering the horrific truth of his birth, an instinctive love for his birth mother, and a
grateful dedication to his adoptive family. Outside of BLANK, Brian has made a career in the theatre as actor
and producer in Southern California.
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Schedule - Saturday, April 22nd
8:00 - 8:45 am
REGISTRATION
Lobby
9:00 -9:15 am
WELCOME MESSAGE
Zebendon Room West
9:15 -10:15 am
KEYNOTE – RHONDA CHURCHILL
Zebendon Room West
KEEP CALM AND BUGGER ON...30 YEARS FROM OKLAHOMA TO ENGLAND
Searches can be difficult; especially when the FBI is attempting to hide evidence. Rhonda Churchill’s journey
for the truth spans two continents and thirty years, from the wheat fields of Oklahoma to the halls of
Parliament; Mafioso to the Governor’s office. Armed with little more than dogged determination and
conflicting rumors of the past, this mental health therapist sought to do for herself what she had done for
others: find her family. Motivated by the belief that she had a grandfather who had loved her, Rhonda compiled
a detective strategy that dug through the past like a bulldozer. In 2009 she confirmed her grandfather’s
identity. That grandfather was Winston Churchill.
Rhonda will share her story of desperation and loss, hope and fear, joy and disbelief; with a generous helping
of “coincidence” that offered to help heal the past.
Rhonda Churchill, formerly known as, Baby Girl Gafford was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Rhonda lives outside Tulsa and is a
Licensed Professional Counselor. She has worked with adoptees and their families for over 30 years, specializing in the treatment of
adoption and attachment issues. In 1981 she began a search for her biological grandfather; a search that would span 30 years and over
4,500 miles, from Oklahoma City to London. In 2013 Rhonda penned “The Fifth and Final Name: Memoir of An American Churchill,” a
finalist in the Oklahoma Center For The Book Awards.
10:15 – 10:30 am
BREAK & SNACK
10:30 – 11:45 am
WORKSHOPS
A. STEVEN FRANK
ANCESTRY DNA INTRODUCTION
Lobby
Zebendon Room West
Tablet or Laptop Recommended
Many adoptees are intimidated by the technical terms and complex tools used in Genetic Genealogy. But at its
core is a simple process of building trees and connecting families. This workshop demystifies the process and
provides an explanation of the DNA testing process, as well as an overview of the results and how to use them
to get started in a search for your family. No scientific knowledge required!
Steven Frank is an attorney and genetic genealogist specializing in reuniting adoptees with their birth families through the use of DNA
testing. Steven has successfully reunited over two dozen adoptees with their birth parents, mostly in the state of Indiana. He is a regular
speaker on topics involving DNA and Genealogy for local libraries and interest groups. His website is http://www.geneticgenealogist.net
B. ZARA PHILLIPS
ADOPTION & ADDICTION
Hansen Room East
Adopted people are the highest minority in treatment and institutions struggling with addiction. Adopted teens
are four times most likely to attempt suicide than non-adopted teens. The presentation will start with the
speaker’s own journey of being an adopted person, and her addiction to drugs and alcohol. Her journey to
recovery at 22 years of age. She will highlight the lifelong impact of being adopted. Search, reunion, marriage,
birth of her own babies, death of adopted Mother. She will discuss getting sober, her recovery over the
last 29 years and how adoption healing has been an essential part of her process to staying sober.
Zara will highlight the adoption experience with text of people in the adoption field, Nancy Verrier, BJ Lifton
and Ron Nydam. She will explain the importance of attachment for babies, ‘Thomas Verney’ Zara will tie
together what professionals know about adoption with her own experience as living as an adopted person in
recovery. Quotes from Paul Sunderland a therapist in England working with addicts that are adopted.
Zara believes in grieving the adoption experience and that by doing this is the only way to move forward. She
will discuss grief, cellular memory and her own healing journey to freedom. She will also talk about how to
stay sober when dealing with primal issues that can affect ones sobriety.
Zara Phillips was born and raised in London. Zara loved to sing and dance from a young age and enjoyed spending hours in her room
writing all the lyrics to musicals and performing each part. Zara moved to Los Angeles where she continued writing new songs and
performing solo. In 2008 Zara finished directing and producing an adoption documentary entitled “ROOTS: UNKNOWN”. This
educational and informative film focuses on the emotional influence adoption has on the adoptee and their families. Interviews and sound
bites with adult adoptees, their families and children are mixed with artistic images of their art and creative expression. The film won
Best Homegrown Documentary at The Garden State Film festival in New Jersey.
In addition, Zara is also an author. Her book, ‘Mother Me’ is about Zara’s personal journey to motherhood from an adoptee’s point of
view. This is an intensely personal and compelling memoir in which Zara describes her feelings as an adopted person and explores her
relationships with her adoptive and birthmothers. “BENEATH MY FATHER'S SKY” is a one woman show that Zara wrote and performs.
Zara writes articles for various adoption magazines. She regularly talks and facilitates workshops and events related to adoption issues,
along with performing her music at clubs in NYC and New Jersey.
11:45 – 1:00 pm
BOX LUNCH - NETWORKING GROUPS
1:00 – 2:15 pm
WORKSHOPS
A. STEVEN FRANK
ANCESTRY DNA TIPS & TRICKS
Zebendon Room West
Zebendon Room West
Tablet or Laptop recommended
Continuation of Introductory Workshop. This workshop demystifies the process and provides an
explanation of the DNA testing process, as well as an overview of the results and how to use them to get started
in a search for your family. No scientific knowledge required!
Steven Frank is an attorney and genetic genealogist specializing in reuniting adoptees with their birth families through the use of DNA
testing. Steven has successfully reunited over two dozen adoptees with their birth parents, mostly in the state of Indiana. He is a regular
speaker on topics involving DNA and Genealogy for local libraries and interest groups. His website is http://www.geneticgenealogist.net
B. DEBRA BAKER
LOST & FOUND; SEARCH & REUNION 101
Hansen Room East
Hundreds of thousands have been separated through a closed adoption system, but the complexity of the need
or desire to search and possibly reunite with their birth families can be fraught with guilt and anxiety. The
presenter’s personal documentary “Lost and Found,” about her search for and finding her son after thirty years,
will serve as a backdrop to explore the impact of search and reunion not only on mother and adoptee, but also
on entire families.
Debra Baker is a writer and filmmaker. Her films “BROKEN TIES” and “LOST AND FOUND” have aired on PBS and screened at
numerous film festivals in the U.S. and UK. Her writing has appeared in adoption publications and several anthologies. A reunited
birthmother, she is a frequent presenter at adoption conferences, and was awarded the Excellence in Broadcast Media Award by the
American Adoption Congress in 2002.
2:15 – 2:30 pm
BREAK
2:30 – 3:45 pm
WORKSHOPS
A. LYNN GRUBB
Zebendon Room West
THE UNDER-VALUED AND MUCH NEEDED ADOPTEE PERSPECTIVE
Traditionally, adoptees have been subtly silenced in media, policy and law. However, there is a growing trend
within the adoptee community to work together for change using social media, blogs, anthologies and memoirs
as tools for education and adoptee advocacy.
Lynn will explore the reasons that adoptees have traditionally been silenced and invalidated in media, policy
and law as well as explore the idea that adoptees themselves contribute to their own silencing due to different
fears. These fears will be discussed, broken down and understood as part of the cultural mores of the closed
adoption system and the current lack of understanding by the general public regarding the adult adoptee
experience. She will also reveal the underlying currents of fear that strike adoptees’ hearts surrounding loyalty
and rejection and why they both waited until middle age to begin searching. They will discuss ways in which
adoptees can feel safer to express their needs so that we as a society can better meet those needs.
Lynn Grubb is a closed-era adoptee and parent by both biology and adoption. She has been active in the adoption community for several
years as a contributing author to Lost Daughters, a co-facilitator for Adoption Network Cleveland-Miami Valley’s adoption support
group, and has contributed to multiple adoption anthologies, including The Adoptee Survival Guide, which she created and edited. Lynn
is also the President of The Adoptee Rights Coalition, a non-profit organization that funds a booth every year at the National Conference
of State Legislatures and works to educate the masses about the sealing and amending of adoptees’ original birth certificates. She lives in
Dayton, Ohio with her husband, 12 year old daughter, a dog, two cats and two ferrets.
B. LYNN JOHANSENN
Hansen Room East
SAVING OUR SISTERS (SOS)
Saving Our Sisters is a workshop explaining how our grassroots movement of people touched by adoption are
both pro family and pro mother and child. We support mothers crisis who want to parent their unborn babies.
We do our best to prevent unnecessary adoption and mentor moms with a local support person that assist them
in finding local resources for them. We would like to also educate adoptees and mothers on life long adoption
trauma, grief and triggers experienced in relinquishment.
Lynn Johansenn, a birthmother, who lost her child to an unnecessary adoption, founded a volunteer grassroots movement, (S.O.S.) of
people who are living adoption separation & believe moms deserve support. S.O.S. is a pro-family, pro-mother and child, organization
that supports mothers in crisis who want to parent their unborn babies. Preventing unnecessary adoptions is our goal and purpose.
3:45 – 4:00 pm
BREAK
4:00 – 5:00 pm
IMPLEMENTATION PANEL
UPDATES ON SENATE ENROLLED ACT 91
Zebendon Room West
5:00 – 5:15 pm
CLOSING MESSAGE
Zebendon Room West
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Board of Director's
Pam Kroskie, President, has been part of the adoption community for over 25 years. Pam currently serves as
President of both HEAR (Hoosiers for Equal Access to Records) that is participating in the legislative process to
change adoptee laws in Indiana, and IAN (Indiana Adoption Network). She has also served as President and MidWest Regional Director of the National Organization of The American Adoption Congress (AAC). The AAC
provided education and support for the adoption community. While serving on the board for the AAC, Pam
contributed to the conference committee planning and executing the success of each destination. The
Congressional Coalition Adoption Institute and Indiana Congressman Todd Young awarded Pam the Angel in
Adoption Award in 2012. She also received the 2013 Spotlight Award for her Blog Talk Radio show for shining a
light on the need for openness and truth in adoption. Pam has written a children’s book on adoption called “Jack
and Emma’s Adoptee Journey”. She has also written many articles for Adoption Today Magazine and many other
publications. Pam also served as the marketing director for Adoption Today Magazine.
Contact Pam: [email protected]
Marcie Keithley, Vice-President-Treasurer, is a retired bank manager and licensed Investment Representative
with over 32 years of experience in sales, marketing, management and operations. In 2010, Marcie founded and
operated her own grassroots organization and held an Adoption Awareness weekend in Kentuckiana, partnering
with The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute and Indiana University Southeast. A birthmother in reunion since
2008, Marcie is a member of Concerned United Birthparents, American Adoption Congress, and currently serves
as the Vice President/Treasurer of HEAR (Hoosiers for Equal Access to Records). She has held numerous board
positions in her community such as Treasurer of Kiwanis International, United Way, Chamber of Commerce and
Habitat for Humanity. Her personal story has been covered by the media, TV, radio, as well as the cover story for
Southern Indiana Living Magazine. She is the author of the soon to be released memoir, “The ShoeBox Effect.”
Contact Marcie: [email protected]
Jennifer Fahlsing, Secretary, is a REALTOR®, Broker, in northeast Indiana. Prior to working in real
estate, she worked for 15 years in the employment industry where she served on the state board in various roles,
including President. Jennifer has spent many years as an industry speaker and trainer for state, regional and
national conferences. As an adoptee and first mother herself she understands the challenges involved in searching
and the gamut of emotions experienced in reunion. After decades of searching she located both her mother and
son within a 3-month period in 2013. In 2014, an article was written about her struggle to obtain a Passport. US
Adoptees Have Trouble Getting Passports Due to Seal Records Law. She was interviewed on local TV related to
the passage of Senate Bill 91 and testified on behalf of this bill. Jennifer is a member of Concerned United
Birthparents, American Adoption Congress, H.E.A.R. and Adoptees and Birthparents of Indiana.
Contact Jennifer: [email protected]
Laura Aughe, Membership Director, is an adoptee in reunion since January 2016. She has supported HEAR
and is dedicating her time to helping others in need of healing with adoption. Laura has been married since 2005,
and has two daughters. She grew up in Fort. Wayne and has two college degrees. She earned an Associates in
Occupational Therapy and a Bachelor of Science in Human Service, where she graduated magna cum laude.
Laura believes her calling is helping others and being a support system for those who need it. She teaches Sexual
Risk Avoidance to teenagers and has worked with Crisis Pregnancy Centers, mentoring and public speaking about
teen pregnancy.
Contact Laura: [email protected]
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Downtown Restaurant Guide
Bloomington Bagel Co - F4
Bloomington Sandwich - G5
Crazy Horse - F4
Esan Thai Restaurant - F6
Irish Lion - F4
Laughing Plant Cafe - G7
Le Petit Cafe - E3
Malibu Grill - F5
Max's Place - E5
Nick's English Hut - F8
Scotty's Brewhouse - F4
Scholar's Inn Bakehouse - F4
Scholar's Inn Cafe - F4
Taste of India - G7
The Village Deli - F8
Trojan Horse - G5
Uptown Cafe – G5
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Building Bridges of Connection
The First Annual
Indiana Adoptee Network Conference
April 21 & 22, 2017
Monroe County Convention Center
Bloomington, Indiana
Keynote Presenters
Brian Stanton
Rhonda Churchill
Leslie Mackinnon
Patti Hawn
Indiana Adoptee Network, Inc. is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization
committed to enhancing the lives of our Hoosier families that have been
touched by Adoption with an emphasis on education and empowerment. We
recognize and respect each individual, regardless of where they are in their
Adoption walk and strive to provide solutions, resources and connections for
Adoptees and their families.
IAN was inspired by the 2015 work with the Indiana legislators, when it
became clear that the education/awareness of our state’s lawmakers and the general public around adult
adoptee matters was very limited. IAN is in a unique and exciting position, to build a statewide network that can
exist to continue to impact education, attitudes, and legislation.
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