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Did You Know?
The average age for the children in foster care was 9.7 years. Average length of stay in foster care was 27.2 months. The largest percentage of children (47 percent) were in a nonrelative foster family home. Forty-nine percent had a case goal of reunification. 123,000 were awaiting adoption, down from 132,000 in FY 2007. (Children's Bureau AFCARS report, Fiscal Year 2008)
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Identity in Adoption: Mirrors and Windows
Have you ever wondered just how much nature vs. nurture will play a role in your adopted child’s identity formation?
How will they balance these influences as they pull together their own understanding of who they are?
What can you do to help them?
Join moderator Leah Bloom, LMFT, an adopted person who was adopted from Korea, as she leads our panel of adopted persons through a discussion about the intricacies of identity formation in adoption. Our panel - adopted domestically, internationally and from foster care – will reflect back on their own experiences and answer YOUR questions about such things as:
- What their adoptive parents did that helped them through the journey
- What they wish their parents had done
- Additional supportive elements and resources that have helped them mold their identity formation
- Privacy concerns in sharing their adoption story
- Feelings of loss related to their adoption what tends to trigger this
- Curiosity and feelings about biological parents and how much they identify with them
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Leah Bloom
Leah Bloom, LMFT, is a Faculty member at the Chicago Center For Family Health and trained at Northwestern University at the undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate level. As a clinician with a private practice in Chicago’s downtown Loop, she brings her experience of interpersonal and inner-personal psychotherapy to her clients. Ranging from Individuals, Couples, and Families of all kinds, she creates a supportive environment for all her clients who seek to discover who they are in the world and the change they hope to create for themselves. Leah has a particular ability to join with children and adolescents, and has a specialization in both Domestic and International Adoption. Trained as a systemic and family therapist, she brings in all areas of the client’s life into their work together — creating change that makes a difference.
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