2012 AFRICAN AMERICAN PARADE AND FESTIVAL TO HONOR LANSING WILSON CALDWELL

     (Lansing) --  The Capital City African American Cultural Association will hold its 12th Annual Parade and Family Heritage Festival on Saturday, August 4, 2012 in downtown Lansing.  The annual event showcases  the
mid-Michigan African American community with a parade and festival featuring marching bands, floats, food, vendors, musical acts, dancing, and much more.  It's a family-focused, uplifting celebration for all of mid-Michigan to share in this day-long event.

     "We are pleased to announce that the parade and festival will be back in 2012 with special focus on providing a positive experience for our children and youth," said parade and festival chairperson Dr. Michael C.
Murphy.   "And we will honor and celebrate the life of the late Wilson Caldwell who was a founding member of the Association.   Wilson served the community as a courageous voice for social justice in Lansing.


He was president of the NAACP  at a critical time and helped so many people seeking justice and fairness in the community."

     For information on participating in the parade or festival go to www.ccaaca.org or call (517) 755-6895.  

Civil rights probe in response to East Lansing School Board decision

The East Lansing School District voted to close a k-4 elementary school and realign the remaining five elementary schools to include grades k-5 with the sixth grade moving to MacDonald Middle School.  The public comments at School Board meetings leading up to the decision were long and passionate.  A committee of residents was appointed by the School Board early on.  The committee debated the issue of how best to reorganize the District's elementary schools in light of diminishing revenues and outdated infrastructure.  The Board had an unprecedented number of public comment periods to discuss the committee's finding and come to a decision.  Despite the Board's vote it was apparent that no one wants their neighborhood school closed.


Unfortunately for many East Lansing residents their neighborhood school was not available for their children to attend.  Seven years earlier the Board decided to close an elementary school and change the existing elementary schools from six with k-5 grades to four with k- 4 and two with 5 and 6.  This action increased the amount of busing since those in neighborhoods where the school changed to grades five and six with younger children now needed to go to a k-4 elementary school two or more miles away.  For the past seven years the East Lansing School District has not supported neighborhood schools.  The adopted re-alignment and infrastructure will require a February 28, 2012 vote on a bond issue to fund the change.


A recent Lansing State Journal article, "Civil rights probe will not delay E. L. bond vote," reported that a federal civil rights complaint has been filed concerning the closing of the elementary school:


In a 4-3 vote taken Sept. 26, school board members voted to keep the district's five other elementary buildings open. The vote was seen by some as an attack on the diversity of Red Cedar, which regularly draws its student body from more than 50 nationalities. . . 


A portion of Red Cedar's 266 students are children of international families at Michigan State University, and the school celebrates its global perspective. The complaint alleges closing the school will discriminate against its students based on race, color or national origin.


The article further reported the following demographics:


Red Cedar is the only building with more minority students than white - 55 percent. Donley's is 45 percent, Pinecrest's 37 percent and Marble Elementary is about 22 percent. The district's fifth- and sixth-grade buildings, Glencairn and Whitehills, are both about 40 percent minority.


I was unaware of these demographics.  I knew that the school in my neighborhood, Glencairn, would be primarily white if it were not for the students being bused there from Red Cedar.  I was delighted when my son moved from fourth grade, at Marble, to fifth grade, at Glencairn, that his class went from having three or four children of color to nearly half of the class.  In first grade, my son was sent down to the office for using a pair of scissors incorrectly.  When I got to the school I asked him what he was doing with the scissors and he said, "I was cutting my hair so that it would be straight like the other boys."  Neither the white teacher or white principal had thought to ask him why he was cutting his hair.    Had Marble been more diverse perhaps this incident wouldn't have occurred - both the cutting of the hair as well as the teacher and principal not understanding the reason behind it.


I think it is important on a number of levels for all children to learn in a diversified setting.  Including diversity in social and economic backgrounds as well as racially and with regards to nationalities.  This includes being taught by a diverse faculty.  While my children have had African American principals, it wasn't until seventh grade that my son had a teacher of color.  For a successful society our children need to learn tolerance and how to celebrate the strengths of diverse backgrounds each individual brings with them.


I understand the feeling of many of the parents of Red Cedar students who chose school of choice so that their children could be enjoy the benefits of a diversified student body.  A number of these parents are white parents raising adopted children of color.  But, I also think it would be a disservice to the students who would attend Glencairn when it returns to grades K-5 to learn in a mostly white environment.  Eventually, all students end up at the District's one middle school which has forty percent diversity.


In addition to learning in a diverse student body I find it important to have elementary schools that are walkable and bikable.  When we moved to our East Lansing neighborhood we did so assuming that we would walk our children to school.  Getting to school by means without a motor provides opportunity for students to exercise, to establish a conservation ethic, to enjoy some time with friends and parents who can take the time to walk with their children. and to breath fresh air before being sequestered to their classrooms.  


At the time I didn't realize that we could chose to send our children to other elementary schools in district.  Assuming equal education by faculty throughout the district, we sent our children to their designated school.  Perhaps we missed out on an opportunity by not choosing to send our children to Red Cedar.  We felt that the faculty at both Marble and Glencairn have been outstanding for the most part and have had  three wonderful principals between the schools.  


My hope is that the unique attributes of celebrating diversity inherent at Red Cedar are transferred with the students and staff to Glencairn so that  students who may not be afforded the opportunity until middle school can also benefit from them.  I suppose that an argument can be made that insular environment created at Red Cedar can not be transferred and that when the school closes the attributes end too.  The students would go from a school where fifty-five percent of the student body is of color to one where the student body is only forty percent of color.  The minority would in fact be back to being the minority.  Is this enough to loose the unique identity that parents enjoy by sending their children to Red Cedar?  Could Glencairn become the new school of choice for those seeking these attributes and thereby increase its minority demographic to become majority?


Glencairn has always had a "Taste of Glencairn" community dinner, where students and their parents bring a dish that celebrates their family.  While I didn't attend the dinners prior to the school changing to a fifth and sixth grade school and increasing its students of color,  I can only conjecture that the meals at the dinner became a little spicier, tastier and a touch more soulful with the new additions.  

Recent Racial Incidents at Michigan State University and Responses

Dear Community Leaders,

My name is Laura Hamilton and I am the corresponding secretary for the Black Graduate Student Association. In lieu of recent events occurring at Michigan State University, as well as nationally, we will be having a town meeting on Friday, November 11, 2011 from 5-7pm. The title of this town meeting is, Racism in a "Post Racial Society". We would like to extend an invitation to your membership to join us in talking about race and racism especially as it relates to our experiences at Michigan State University. We would also like to have a few members formally speak on a panel. If they can come prepared to speak 5-10 minutes about their views on race in a post racial society and the Michigan State context, that would be greatly appreciated. We are also interested in using this forum as a platform to connect with the undergraduate students and faculty to use our collective efforts/talents/experiences to address the racial issues occurring at Michigan State University.

We look forward to working with you. And please let me know if you need any additional information.

Best,


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From Lou Anna Simon, President Michigan State University




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From the Michigan Messenger

Credit: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MSU_Abbot_Hall_sign.jpg, Lovelac7

Racial incidents draw 1,000 to MSU townhall

Students want university to take action

By Todd A. Heywood | 10.05.11 | 9:41 am

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Nearly 1,000 Michigan State University students, administrators and community members packed into a large lecture hall at Conrad Hall on the campus to discuss what administration officials have called a “rash” of racial incidents on the campus.

In the last three weeks, at least two incidents of racist graffiti have occurred in two different dorms. In one instance, the racist message was written on the dorm room dry erase board of a black student. In the other, racist graffiti using the same racial epithet as well as sexually explicit graphics, was found on several walls in another residence hall. A third incident came to light on Tuesday. Students say when they went to a lab on campus, they found a black rag doll hanged by a makeshift noose.

Kent Cassella, spokesperson for MSU, said the MSU police continue to investigate them both as individual incidents as well as potentially as a series of events that are related. He said MSU has not called in the Federal Bureau of Investigation as of Tuesday night as the police department was waiting for preliminary investigatory reports to be completed.

Acting Vice President of Student Affairs Dr. Denise Maybanks said that, to her knowledge, the university had initiated its bias incident response plan, but was not able to verify that Tuesday night.

Students from the university’s Black Student Alliance organized the event on Tuesday evening to discuss with the community how to respond to the situations. There was some discussion about marching to protest what was going on, but no final decision was made at the meeting. Organizers told students they would email them regarding the next steps by Friday.

“We wanted to bring it to the forefront, see how the community feels about it and what they want to do about it,” said Dedrick Cotton, the Black Student Alliance special events coordinator.

“Those are the tip of the iceberg. This is not the first time that we’ve seen or heard anything like this, but as blatant and as frequent as it has been in the past couple of years, this was about as quick as it happen in a school year,” Cotton said.

This is not the first time MSU has made headlines for alleged racial activity on the campus. Over the past decade a couple of student groups have invited controversial and some say racist speakers to the campus. In the most recent incident, MSU Sons of Liberty invited Nick Griffin, the head of the openly racist British National Party, to the campus to speak. Griffin withdrew from the event when his invitation to speak at another event in Washington D.C. was cancelled.

James Gill, vice president of the state NAACP, was at the Conrad community meeting as well.

“We’re always concerned when there are racial issues that come out,” said Gill, who is a detective with the Lansing Police Department. “We know that there are racist people in the world. We just want to know who they are so we can take care of it from there.”

Gill says that the incidents, while shocking, are not necessarily surprising given the recent history at MSU, as well as political fights in Washington D.C.

“When people in the U.S. Congress, in the U.S. Senate act like that to the President of the United States, then other people think it’s open day. We can go ahead and do that and nothing’s gonna happen to us,” said Gill. “So it’s totally wrong. Yes, I think it does stem from what those people are doing in Washington D.C.”

Cotton was not quite as certain as Gill, but said he was willing to give the university the benefit of the doubt in dealing with the incidents — though he says the administration has not responded adequately to the situation thus far.

“I wouldn’t say that we’re feeling threatened as of now,” Cotton said. “We don’t feel everything has been up to par, or taken as seriously as we think it should have been taken.”

Weighing in on the neighborhood schools discussion in our community

Dear President Addiego and ELSB Memebers:

You have done an admirable job with very difficult decisions concerning the future of our K-8 facilities.  Your public participation process has been exemplary.  It is obvious that this process has benefited the Board significantly.

My wife and I moved to East Lansing in 1999 and were immediately attracted to the Glencairn Neighborhood because of its intrinsic beauty, proximity to downtown and MSU and because of Glencairn Elementary School which was K-5 at the time.  Our son, Jacob, was born in 1999 and by the time he was old enough to attend Glencairn Elementary it was reconfigured to a Grade 5-6 school.  For our son's first day of school, he rode a bus two miles to Marble Elementary School. Our daughter Antonia was born in 2004 and when she was school age, she got on the same bus.  We have never experienced neighborhood schools.

I know you have received ample input on the benefits of neighborhood schools, so I want to let you know how we benefited from having our children go to a school that was not in our neighborhood.  Given that we have quality teachers at all of our schools, the main benefit for our family has been the diversity of the student body. On a community level, East Lansing is better off when each of our students is provided the opportunity to associate with a broad range of other students.  It lifts the community up when students of different economic, cultural and racial backgrounds are able to befriend each other at an early age.  This is the world that our children are growing up in.  

On a personal level, my children are African American and as they search for their own identity it is equally important that they have the opportunity to not be the only child of color in their classroom, especially since on the whole we have a rather diverse student body.  It is also important that they have the opportunity to have instructors and administrators of color so that they can broaden their aspirations through these role models.  My daughter looks up to and is very fond of her Principal, Ms. Ruth Riddle.

While at Marble Elementary, my children were still one of the few children of color in their respective classes, but they were not alone.  With Glencairn and Marble Neighborhood students mixed my children were provided much more cultural, economic and racial diversity than they would have received if they had attended Glencairn Elementary for five years.  Increased diversity has been a significant benefit of having our current school configuration.

I applaud your recent decision to mix the the Red Cedar Elementary student body with the Glencairn Elementary student body as a K-5 Glencairn Elementary school. When Jacob went to Glencairn as a 5th and 6th grade student (2009-2011) it was wonderful to see him in an environment that neared fifty percent children of color in the classroom  (I would feel this way if I had European American children as well).  The racial configuration was very diverse with fellow students representing a variety of cultures and colors as well as economic situations.  While the mix would not be the same since the Marble student body would not be included in the new reconfiguration, it would none the less be significantly more diverse than if Glencairn Elementary was only populated by the surrounding neighborhood.  This move not only benefits Glencairn Neighborhood Students, but it also benefits the Flower Pot Neighborhood students as well as MSU International Students' children.  All of our students come together at MacDonald Middle School.  Early integration of both European American Students and non European American students allows for a much more productive, cohesive and rich middle and high school experience which will benefit each student who attends our school district and the world that they enter upon graduation. I know the Red Cedar Elementary School has a reputation as an outstanding international academy.  I am looking forward to my daughter benefiting from those same values and programs as they are shared with the Glencairn  Elementary student body. 

Warmly,

Erich 

Shaka

I rented Shaka Zulu over the summer to watch with my children.  It was certainly evident from the two episodes that we watched that the story was being told from an English viewpoint.  Later I learned that it was written by Joshua Sinclair for the South African Broadcasting Corporation during the height of Apartheid.  I couldn't help but wonder about the story from a Zulu perspective.  Though at the time Shaka did not see the necessity of the written word since his messengers were under the penalty of death if they did not convey the King's exact message.


I was looking for a movie about an African King when I selected it, having a vague recollection of watching it 24 years ago.  While my twelve year old son enjoyed the cultural dress of the time, we lost interest after the second episode and did not complete the ten part series.  I find often that the movies I grew up with move at a snails pace compared to the techno driven green screen epics of today.  Please let me know if you know of good movies or books about African royalty.

Football and Soccer

East Lansing, MI

Population by Race
	White	81%
	African American	7%
	Native American	0%
	Asian	8%
	Hawaiian	0%
	Other/Mixed	4%

Recently at an East Lansing High School football game I observed my son's 7th grade football team walking through the stands, making their rounds so to speak.  This particular contingent of about a third of the team which included my son was all young men of color, predominately African American and Mexican American.  Wearing their Blue and White Trojan home jersey's over their squared shoulders as they pounded the aluminum planks of the Stadium was an impressive and rather loud sight.  It was if they were off to Stomp the Yard.  As they passed by me my son glanced up briefly with eyes that said don't call out my name.  I watched their forward progress and couldn't help but notice when they passed a row of 7th Grade soccer players all relatively lanky, white  and blonde in their East Lansing warm up jackets.


Jacob played soccer until fifth grade and then switched to football.  His football team has a majority of young men of color, including Indian American and Vietnamese American.  He is one of two young men of color on his baseball team.  Even East Lansing's youth basketball teams are a majority white.  I'm not sure what to make of this, though I like seeing Jacob surrounded my young men of color.  It is not that I don't like to see him surrounded by his baseball team, rather that is more of the norm in his life.  It is just that I also like to see him in situations where is skin color is in the majority.

Tahquamenon Falls

We just got back from Michigan's beautiful yet rural Upper Peninsula.  We were camping just outside Paradise, MI at the Tahquamenon Falls State Park and were delightfully surprised when our children came back to the camp with two new friends who happened to be African American. In our camping experience we rarely see people of color.  Because of this we often ask ourselves, should we continue to pursue vacations to places that put our children in the extreme minority, or should we seek out vacation destinations where Andria and I are the minority?

As we grow together as a family, our children are becoming old enough and more comfortable with themselves to make their own observations and express themselves in response.  Andria and I we have decided that to camp and see nature's wonders is too spiritual to miss regardless of the diversity of those sharing the experience with us.  Of course, we would never put our children iintentually at risk for such an experience.  But so far, except for a few stares, most likely do to our entire family makeup and not necessarily because of our children's skin color, we have had uneventful vacations save for the joy of family and the celebration of the place.  

When Jacob was three years old, we went to Jamaica where Andria and I were in the minority.  While there Jacob was treated like a royal prince by the staff of the resort.  We much enjoyed that vacation.  We need to get our passports so that we can continue to have experiences like that.  Both children are eaqer to go to South Africa.  While I have searched, I have yet to find US vacation destinations that afford the same experience that are not urban in nature like Chicago, or Atlanta.

It turned out that their friends were also adopted by white parents.  When we went out of the camp to swim in the breakfast tea colored falling water of Tahquamenon or stop in the quaint seaside town of Grand Marias, Jacob and Antonia couldn't wait to get back to camp to see Peter and Rachael.  

When we arrived back to our campsite, Peter and Rachael were usually waiting at our site or if not, as soon as we stopped the car, Jacob and Antonia would run over to their campsite to find them.  For most of the week, the four of them were the only children of color in the park.  But that didn't seem to matter, since the four were quick to play with any children they could find.  Peter and Rachael are wonderful kids and that immediately put me at ease, though I have to admit, I am more comfortable when Jacob and Antonia are playing with children of color.  I am a bit on guard when they play with white children at least until we get to know them.  I suppose a parent is always on guard when their children meet knew friends.  It is the character of the child that counts, not their skin color.  Despite understanding this, there is still a level of comfort that I experience when my children interact with other African American children -  that is of course until their character is unveiled.

National Kidney Foundation: Ten Facts About African Americans and Kidney Disease

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Ten Facts About African Americans And Kidney 

Disease

http://www.kidney.org/news/newsroom/fs_new/10factsabtaframerkd.cfm

Due to high rates of diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease, African Americans have an increased risk of developing kidney failure and requiring dialysis treatments or a kidney transplant to sustain life. African Americans need to be aware of these risk factors and visit their doctor or clinic regularly to check their blood sugar, blood pressure, urine protein and kidney function. The following are ten facts about African Americans and chronic kidney disease:

1. African Americans suffer from End Stage Renal Disease disproportionately. The incidence of kidney failure per million population is 998 in African Americans, compared with 273 in white Americans. African Americans constitute about 29 percent of all patients treated for kidney failure in the U.S., but only about 14 percent of the overall U.S. population. The incidence rate of diabetic end stage kidney failure has increased steadily among African Americans.
2. African Americans also develop kidney failure at an earlier age than white Americans. The mean age for African-Americans at the start of treatment for kidney failure is 56 years, compared with 66 in white Americans.
3. The death rates per 100,000 population from high blood pressure is 15.6 for white males, 51.1 for black males, 14.3 for white females and 37.7 for black females.
4. Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney failure in African Americans. The prevalence of diabetes in African Americans is much higher than in white Americans. Approximately 14.7 percent of all African Americans over 20 years of age (3.7 million) have diabetes. On average, African Americans are twice as likely to have diabetes as white Americans of similar age.
5. National surveys show that the number of cases of diabetes among African Americans has doubled. Yet, about a third of the diabetes cases among African Americans are undiagnosed.
6. The most common type of diabetes in African Americans is type 2 diabetes. The risk factors for this type of diabetes include: family history, impaired glucose tolerance, diabetes during pregnancy, hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance, obesity and physical inactivity.
7. African Americans with diabetes are more likely to develop complications of diabetes and to have greater disability from these complications than white Americans. African-Americans experience kidney failure about four times more often than white Americans with diabetes. They are also more likely to develop other serious complications such as heart disease and strokes and to experience greater disability than white Americans with diabetes.
8. High blood pressure is the second leading cause of kidney failure among African Americans, accounting for 34 percent of the new cases each year. However, high blood pressure remains the leading cause of death overall in African Americans because of its link with heart attacks and strokes.
9. It is not known for sure why African Americans are more prone to develop high blood pressure. More than 40 percent of African Americans are believed to have high blood pressure, however. African-Americans also have higher death rates from causes related to high blood pressure.
10. Many African Americans may be unaware of the connection between high blood pressure and chronic kidney disease. Reports indicate that about 43 percent of African Americans who are on dialysis were not aware they had kidney failure until about one week before starting dialysis.

For more information on kidneys and kidney disease, visit www.kidney.org

Sources of Facts and Statistics:

“Diabetes in African Americans,” from the National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse

High Blood Pressure Statistics. American Heart Association.

U.S. Renal Data System 2007 Annual Data Report (www.usrds.org)

December 2009

The End of Anger?

Today on NPR's  Talk of the Nation

May 31, 2011

In 1994, Ellis Cose surveyed successful, middle-class African-Americans and uncovered an often unspoken rage. He described his findings in the book The Rage Of A Privileged Class.

Now, 17 years later, Cose has discovered a major change among middle-class blacks: They have become one of the most optimistic groups in America. He reveals his findings in a new book, The End Of Anger.

Cose tells NPR's Neal Conan that the rise in optimism is not linked to perceived end of discrimination.

"No one black who I talked to thinks we have arrived at a point where we are an equal opportunity nation," Cose says.

Cose conducted two large surveys — one of black Harvard M.B.A.'s and one of graduates of A Better Chance, a program that sends kids to prep schools. He says he learned that for well-educated and well-prepared African-Americans, "the sky is the limit."

Cose found that a generation after The Rage Of A Privileged Class, middle-class African-Americans are finding themselves with opportunities that didn't exist before.

The End Of Anger: A New Generation's Take On Race And Rage
By Ellis Cose
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"And this is something that is fundamentally different about the way people — particularly people of color — are viewing the American experience," he says.

According to Cose, it was once axiomatic for African-American parents to warn their children that they'd have to work twice as hard to get half as far as their white counterparts. But these days, the conventional wisdom has changed.

"Some of those kids are indeed going to get as far as anybody," Cose says.

Cose refers to the post-Jim Crow generation as "The Believers," a group that never experienced a time when African-Americans couldn't get into top-ranked universities or work at large corporations. Instead, they saw African-Americans rise to top positions in both industry and government.

Because of that, Cose says, the Believers have largely concluded that the old ways don't apply to them; that they can succeed no matter what color skin they have. He says in many ways, African-Americans today have more faith in this country than their white counterparts.

In one survey, Cose asked participants about discrimination in the workplace. He says, "Around 90 percent said there was some kind of glass ceiling in the corporate workplace."

But when participants were specifically asked about glass ceilings at their workplace, the results were quite different — only half said they saw a glass ceiling in effect.

In another workplace survey, many young African-Americans said they felt they were treated the same as their similarly credentialed white peers.

"People were not saying discrimination has disappeared," Cose says. Instead, he says, the message was that "the kind of discrimination that made it impossible to aspire to rise to a certain level is nowhere anywhere near as heavy as it used to be."

The result is that a young black Harvard M.B.A. can actually reach for the stars. There may still be discrimination, but if you successfully navigate around trouble, you can still achieve your goals.

On Talk of the Nation today and available for podcast

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The Parenting Dilemmas Of Transracial Adoption

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Today, approximately 40 percent of adoptions in America are transracial — and that number is growing. Parents of transracial adoptions often struggle with how best to raise children who don't look like them — is it best to raise them colorblind, or acknowledge the differences?

http://www.npr.org/programs/talk-of-the-nation/

Adopt America Network planning November online live auction

Sign up on their Facebook Page.

Charlene Crane Rook

April 22, 2011

Dear Friends:

At Adopt America Network we believe that every child deserves a safe, loving, permanent family and home of his or her own. This foundation is essential to the well-being and mental health of every person.

Adopt America Network (AAN) is dedicated to helping find adoptive families for foster children with special circumstances, whether they have physical challenges, emotional issues or they are older children with siblings. Our placements are even more vital when you consider these small souls are the innocent victims of painful loss, neglect and abuse.

We are hoping you will join us in this journey in CREATING SPECIAL HOMES.

In November 2011 we will be kicking off the first CREATING SPECIAL HOMES live/online auction.

We are simply asking that you create a special home to help us create special homes. Please draw us your best home on the cardstock provided, sign it, fill out the label on the reverse side, and return in the envelope provided. We will then have it matted and include it in an auction to raise money to help us create more special homes for foster children waiting for adoptive families. Should you want to also donate other special items to be included in the auction we would be thrilled. We are asking that all items be sent to us by October 1, 2011.

It is our hope, that with your help, we can provide even more homes for our special children. Over 87% of AAN’s income goes directly to program costs so you can be sure that the money raised will be used wisely.

If you have any questions, please call our Family Outreach Coordinator, Charlene Rook at
1-800-246-1731 (ext.44) or email her at Char@adoptamericanetwork.org.

Thank you for your help,

Wendy Spoerl, President
Adopt America Network

P.S. Please visit our website www.adoptamericanetwork.org to learn more about the children in foster care waiting for families and how AAN helps find their special home.
Check our Facebook page under Creating Special Homes Auction.

Adopt America Network | Helping Children with Special Needs

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Adopt America Network specializes in placing special needs children in loving homes, providing adoption services and adoption services to our clients.

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