Pieces of Me: Podcast Interview with the Authors

Listen in as Laveda Doxey, Project Coordinator interviews Bert Ballard and Carrie Kitze. Hear about EMK Press' new book "Pieces of Me: Who Do I Want to Be? Voices for and by adopted teens". Edited by Robert L. Ballard.

The Georgia Center is proud to share this pod cast, a discussion about a new book for our adopted Teens and their parents.

Bert Ballard, PhD, is an adoptee, adoption researcher, and future adoptive parent. He has helped form two adoptee-led organizations, the Vietnamese Adoptee Network and the International Adoptee Congress to that end. He has been published in Adoption Parenting: Creating a Toolbox, Building Connections and Adoption Today magazine and has spoken across the U.S. and Canada to numerous adoptive parents and adoption professionals sharing his experiences as an adoptive person. Bert has a PhD in communication and conducts research on adoption identity and adoptive families. He has two scholarly articles coming out soon. Bert is the editor of EMK Press' latest project, Pieces of Me: Who do I Want to Be, a groundbreaking work for adoptive teens.

Carrie Kitze, founder and Publisher of EMK Press is an adoptive mother of two children from China. She is the author of We See the Moon and I Don't Have Your Eyes and the creator of Adoption Parenting: Creating a Toolbox, Building Connections which she worked on with her editors Sheena Macrae and Jean MacLeod.

New Location

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All of our phone numbers have remained the same.

Adoption Assistance Information

The Department of Human Resources - State Adoption Unit is presently updating the Adoption Assistance Booklets. The GA Resource Center will provide the booklet to prospective adoptive parents, adoption agencies and professionals when the booklets have been completed.

GACRS Online Pod Cast

Great News

Parents and Professionals can now access audio Pod Cast under the "Services" and "Resources" icons at the website. There you will find 2-15 minute audio clips recorded by experts in the field that address topics on adoption, foster care and parenting. Here's a sample of some of the clips that are now available to you: Dr. Alcuin Johnson's podcast on Attention Deficient Disorder with or without Hyperactivity, Dr. Wendy Hanovold's presentation on 3 Steps to Giving Consequences and Dr. Sunaina Jain's discussion on Hoarding Food to name a few. We will be adding pod casts on Attachment, How, When and Why to tell you Child about Adoption and many more. If you have a topic that you would like to learn more about please call our office at 404-929-0401, and we will make every effort to make that topic available to you.

Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Resources

Visit the General Information on Adoption category for weblinks to websites specifically for grandparents who are raising grandchildren. These websites offer information about education, legal support, support groups and much more.