Hello everyone,
We are couple in our thirties looking to adopt due to infertility. M (potential dad) is a child & youth psychologist working in the youth sector and M (potential mum) works in health & safety / outdoor education equipment.
We are currently at the beginning of the cyfs process, we have been to the information day and are waiting for the next "How to care" 2 day seminars that are compulsory to attend while our paperwork is…
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Added by M&M on June 14, 2011 at 20:45 —
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Families Supporting Adoption (NZ) wishes to extend an invitation to attend the 2010 National FSA Conference to be held on Saturday, 2 October from 9:30am to 4:30pm at the Temple View Chapel, Foster Road, Hamilton.…
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Added by Kathie and Jack Rifle on August 20, 2010 at 9:30 —
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Kia ora koutou
He mihi mahana ki a koutou katoa. Hope you are all well and have survived the first term and are coping with the year's first school holidays.
Well it's time to start planning our next conference again and I would really appreciate input from as many of you as possible. This year I'd like to see a lot more waiata, sharing of personal experiences, birth whanau respresentatives, extended whanau and stake and branch leaders.
So please put the…
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Added by Kathie and Jack Rifle on April 8, 2010 at 20:00 —
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It's official. We are having 5 children placed with us (permanent placement)!! 4 of them will be coming home on Friday. 1, 2, 5 & 7 years old. Number 5 is a prem baby - still in neonates in Lower Hutt hospital. All siblings.
Added by Kathie and Jack Rifle on August 4, 2009 at 21:09 —
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Hello everyone, I'm so glad to see people here that we know.
It has been a rough few months for Jeff and I, but I am happy to say that our profile is now in with CYFS and we are in the pool as of friday last week. It took us 7 months to get it into them as I struggled so much with accepting that handing it in would mean the final acceptance that we would be adopting and not having children ourselves. But it feels right to do it at this time. We will be posting our one off to LDS…
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Added by Gay and Jeff Weusten on June 28, 2009 at 15:54 —
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Kia ora e te whanau
I have set up a Facebook group as well, just to improve our visibility. The Facebook group has a link to our website here. Feel free to join the Facebook group as well.
Love to all. Kathie
Added by Kathie and Jack Rifle on June 10, 2009 at 13:58 —
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The purpose of this website is to provide information for families who are seeking to either adopt children or to place children for adoption. If you have already been through this process then perhaps you are an old hand, but for some you may just be wanting to know how to get started. What's the process? What do I need to do? Will it cost money? How does it work?
Here is just a little information about the basics. I welcome any other perspectives as well to add to my comments or…
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Added by Kathie and Jack Rifle on May 24, 2009 at 16:37 —
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Kia ora koutou katoa and welcome to Families Supporting Adoption (NZ) aka FSA(NZL).
I'm Kathie Rifle the current Chairperson for FSA in New Zealand and I welcome you to our FSA Social Network. So what is FSA and what does it do? Families Supporting Adoption is an organization sponsored by LDS Family Services that seeks to promote a positive view of adoption. The organization has more than 5,000 members worldwide—including adoptive couples, birth parents, adults who were adopted, and…
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Added by Kathie and Jack Rifle on April 21, 2009 at 1:30 —
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