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British Association for Adoption & Fostering: A care leaver who saw hope
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Monday, 3 September 2012. A care leaver who saw hope. This week on the blog we hear from Anu, who recently joined BAAF to help out with the 2012 National Adoption Week campaign. Here, she shares her story as a care leaver who saw hope. To find out more about National Adoption Week. Head over to the campaign website. If you'd like to share your story on our blog, please email blog@baaf.org.uk. Join #adoptfosterchat on Twitter. Subscribe to the BAAF blog. BAAF Social Media Channels. The BAAF blog has moved!
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British Association for Adoption & Fostering: February 2012
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Tuesday, 28 February 2012. A tale of two adoptions. To continue our series on adoption, search and reunion, we speak to Jo, who was adopted as a baby in 1957. In 1985 she began to search for her birth mother. A few years later she was put in her birth mother's shoes when the son she put up for adoption decided to trace her. I began to feel like a puppy and wondered whether my parents had picked this puppy because I seemed like the least trouble. I had always wondered who my birth mother was. I used t...
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British Association for Adoption & Fostering: September 2011
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Monday, 26 September 2011. If I were Prime Minister: changing the care system. Matt Langford, 19, was in care for 9 years. During this time he had over 15 placements and two spells of homelessness. He now lives independently. Here he speaks frankly about changes he believes are needed in the care system and what he would do if he were Prime Minister for the day. I think that the current system also doesn't provide young people leaving care enough information or advice on what to expect when living indepe...
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British Association for Adoption & Fostering: May 2012
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Monday, 28 May 2012. 15 years in fostering: Our story. Vaughan and Sian Jenkins from west Wales have been fostering for 15 years and are both full-time carers. They work for a local authority scheme doing task-focused work with children with challenging behaviour, who are often at risk of going into custody or secure units. He'd learnt to ride in 20 minutes. Declan achieved all sorts of things while he was with us. He got a Royal Yachting Association Qualification and was competent to take a smal...It wa...
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British Association for Adoption & Fostering: September 2012
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Tuesday, 25 September 2012. The BAAF blog has moved! For regular visitors to the BAAF blog, we have moved to a new home here: http:/ www.baaf.org.uk/blog. Please head over where you can continue reading real-life stories about fostering and adoption. This page will continue to stay live, but new content will only be added via the relocated page. Monday, 3 September 2012. A care leaver who saw hope. To find out more about National Adoption Week. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Join #adoptfosterchat on Twitter.
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British Association for Adoption & Fostering: January 2012
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Monday, 30 January 2012. I was seven when I was adopted. Today on the blog we hear from Nicholas, who explains how "the gift of adoption" changed he and his sister's lives for the better. I was seven - my little sister four - when I was adopted. I owe everything I have to the gift of adoption – I dread to think where many thousands of children would be without it. I will do what I can to promote what I believe is a truly important social tool; it creates family from fear, security from sufferin...Last ni...
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British Association for Adoption & Fostering: A “real boy”
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Monday, 30 July 2012. A “real boy”. Jeannie Mackenzie adopted Gordon when he was 10-years-old and living in a psychiatric hospital. Here she describes their emotional and life-changing first meeting. I can only imagine how strange and terrifying it was to meet me for the first time, but he showed no sign of fear, he simply got out of his social worker’s car and walked up the path calling out, ‘Hi Mum! 8217; as he walked past me into the house. Join #adoptfosterchat on Twitter. Subscribe to the BAAF blog.
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British Association for Adoption & Fostering: I was lucky to have been adopted
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Monday, 6 August 2012. I was lucky to have been adopted. Today on the BAAF adoption and fostering blog we hear from Iain, who looks back on his adoption in 1975 and tells how adoption has been a "very positive experience" for him, his adoptive family, and his birth family. I was adopted in 1975 when I was a little baby. Well, I say 'little', but I was 10lbs at birth and was so long my feet dangled over the end of the Moses basket my adoptive parents had brought to collect me in! I know that I couldn't ha...
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British Association for Adoption & Fostering: Adopting a child with disabilities
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Monday, 13 August 2012. Adopting a child with disabilities. Today on our adoption and fostering blog we hear from foster carers Ann and Kev who recently made the decision to adopt a disabled child, Rosie, who was placed with them aged six weeks. Here, Ann explains in her own words. We continue to foster and it's obvious from the smile on Rosie's face that she loves all the babies that come to live with us. If you need more information or advice about fostering or adoption. Join #adoptfosterchat on Twitter.
