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In Response to the News from Kamloops, BC, Canada

By Dianne Sonnenberg, AKA Board Member & International (First Nations) Adoptee Headline: Remains of 215 children found buried at former B.C. residential school, First Nation says. Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc say ground-penetrating radar was used to locate… 

Guest Blogger – Anne Bingham

When I gave birth to my first daughter, the daughter I placed for adoption, I was newly a fifteen-year-old on the heels of a physically abusive relationship with her biological father. I youthfully claimed I… 

Texas Adoptee Rights Wins House Passage 144-1 for HB1386

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:4/9/21 Texas Adoptee Rights Wins House Passage 144-1 for HB1386 In an incredible display of support, House Bill 1386, filed by Representative Cody Harris (R-Palestine) passed the TX House Friday, April 9th with… 

St Patrick’s Day Thoughts from an Adoptee Perspective

Growing up as an adoptee, St Patrick’s Day always brought up feelings around my own lack of specific ethnicity information. While everyone was running around with garish green hats and eating green pancakes – declaring… 

AKA Supports TX HB 1386

Adoption Knowledge Affiliates PO Box 4082Austin, TX 78765 March 5, 2021 To the Honorable Members of the Texas Legislature: Adoption Knowledge Affiliates (AKA) urges you to support HB1386, legislation which restores, by removing undue burden and… 

Adoptees: Our Voices Matter

“As the adoption industry migrates to social media, regretful adoptees and birth mothers are confronting prospective parents with their personal pain—and anger,” reads the subheadline of a recent article on WIRED.com. ​ I wouldn’t have expected to… 

National Adoption Awareness Month 2020

​By Lilly Fei (⻜岗)​ It’s National Adoption Awareness Month (NAAM). I’m not sure I’d go as far as wishing you a happy NAAM, but I just wanted to give my annual NAAM reminders to hold… 

Press Release – AVA Awardee 2020

For Immediate Release:                        September 25, 2020                                                    Texas Legislator to Receive Advocacy Award from Central Texas NonprofitAustin, TX – Adoption Knowledge Affiliates (AKA) has announced its pick… 

AKA Conference News

For Immediate Release:                        ​September 28, 2020                                                    Pandemic Inspires Nonprofits Across States to Create Innovative Adoption Conference Austin, TX  – Adoption Knowledge Affiliates (AKA) and Adoption Network Cleveland (ANC) have joined…