Ongoing
**1st Sunday of the month, 10am – noon, East Bay
Playgroup East Bay
The East Bay Playgroup meets first Sunday of the month, from 10 A.M.
to noon, Memorial Park, 1331 Portland Avenue, Albany 94706. For
information or suggestions, e-mail Alison Seevak (aseevak@earthlink.net)
or Tom Howell (thowelljr@earthlink.net).
**2nd Saturday of the month, 10am – 1pm,
Central Contra Costa Playgroup
Central Contra Costa
A regular monthly event, please join
families with kids from 1 to 10 years old at the Hap Magee Park in
Alamo/Danville from 9:30 AM to noon or so. There is a large playground,
fort, train structure, and water play which may be turned off in winter.
Contact Elaine Hannah (ehan5@sbcglobal.net)
**2nd Sunday of the month, 10am – 1pm, San
Francisco Playgroup San
Francisco
A regular monthly event for toddlers, pre-schoolers
(younger and older siblings are welcome), playground to be announced.
Contact: Elizabeth Huey (elizabeth_huey@yahoo.com).
**3rd Saturday of the month, 11am - 1pm, North Bay
Playgroup Marin
County
A monthly event for
kids of all ages, the North Bay play group meets at the Town Park in Corte
Madera (Pixley Avenue at Redwood Avenue) from 11am to 1pm on the third
Saturday of every month, except for July and August, when we meet at the
Terra Linda Community Pool (670 Del Ganado Road, San Rafael) instead.
Contact: Milinda Lommer (mjlommer@yahoo.com).
**Mid-Peninsula Playgroup
Mid-Peninsula
Mid-Peninsula
Adoptive Families Playgroup, locations to be announced. For all ages and
any families built by adoption. This group has been meeting on the second
& fourth Saturdays from 10AM - 12Noon. If there is enough interest, we can
also add a weekday time. Contact: Cathy Chang (gnahc3@aol.com).
**Last Sunday of the month, 11am – 1pm, South
Bay Playgroup South Bay
For: Toddlers, Pre-schoolers (Younger and Older Siblings Welcome)
Place: Portal Park at 10299 North Portal Avenue (Be sure to take
North), Cupertino (west of Vallco Shopping Mall, north of Stevens Creek
Blvd.)
There are designated play structures and areas for 3 different age groups
and a large sandbox. Bring your own snack and/or lunch.
Contact Pearl (goginosprint21@earthlink.net)
Parents Place
Parent support groups, classes, workshops, counseling, drop-in play room
and resources such as a parenting library and child care and community
bulletin board matching families and caregivers are only some of the
services offered by the nationally-recognized Parents Place of the Jewish
Family and Children's Services. Bay Area locations include San Francisco,
Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma. For more information, visit the Parents
Place web site or call. San Francisco: 415- 359-2454; Peninsula 650-688-3040; Marin 415- 491-7559; Sonoma 707-571-8131.
Pact Teen Club
- Separate groups for teens and pre-teens (teenclub@pactadopt.org)
Teens only! Meet other kids of color who were adopted or fostered. Here's
a
chance to have a good time with other kids who are like you. There will be
teen / tween only activities. Parents can participate in a concurrent peer
support group during which childcare will be available for younger
siblings.
FAIR calendar and
Pact calendar:
On-going education by non-profit or volunteer organizations for adoptive
families and children.
First Week Fiesta: Attention all single moms and people who know
single moms returning from China: We FCC (single) moms and dads and SF Bay
SAPS (Single Adoptive Parents) would like to welcome single moms home with
our First Week Fiesta. We have been in their shoes and understand how
overwhelming that first week back can be (even the second or third time
around!). We are here to provide a week’s worth of home-cooked meals or
groceries and a friendly visit or two. Just email Julia Schulman,
Julschul@aol.com, and we will set up a “fiesta” for any single mom in
the Bay Area. Welcome to our community!
Asian American Bone Marrow Donor Registration Drives Various locations
Visit the Asian American Donor Program at www.aadp.org
for more info. As many of you know, Asians and
other ethnic minorities in the U.S. are seriously underrepresented in the
national bone marrow donor pool. We may not be able to locate our
children’s birth families, but we can work with the Asian American
community to boost the numbers of Asian donors in the pool, and by so
doing increase our children’s chances of survival. The AADP, based in
Oakland, administers the drives and covers the cost of donor screening and
typing. General info about bone marrow donation can be found at
www.marrow.org (includes pages in
Chinese and other languages). For help organizing a drive,
contact Nancy Humphrey,
nancy.humphrey@comcast.net
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4. Time
5. Location (with directions if needed)
6. Contact Name, with telephone number and email address if available.
In general, we don't post phone numbers on the website, but we do post
e-mail addresses so people can contact you with questions.
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Allison Branscombe, Newsletter Editor at
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The newsletter comes out two to three times a year, covering a wide range of
articles and topics of interest to our families. It is a benefit of
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