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March 28, 2011
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Join us for an evening that changes the story for so many kids!
An Evening for Child Advocacy
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Anne M. Aaronson Christopher E. Dunne Richard J. Gelles, Ph.D. Ira Harkavy, Ph.D. |
Dolores Miller James H. Steigerwald Leslie A. Sudock Marge & Mike Thackray |
Get ready for an extraordinary auction!
Planning a night out? How about dinner with Mayor Nutter, or Philadelphia Inquirer Restaurant Critic, Craig LaBan?
Looking for a get-a-way? Relax at the Stoweflake Mountain Resort & Spa in Vermont! Check back soon for other exotic vacation packages!
Register now for a dazzling evening with friends, fabulous auction items and terrific entertainment!
Join us as a Sponsor!Sponsorship includes terrific benefits, including promotional features and complimentary reception admission. Contact event@advokid.org to join us!
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Join us as a Volunteer!We need your help on April 13, 2011 to host this celebration! |
32nd Annual Philadelphia Bar Association 5K Run/Walk
Register now to reserve your chance to compete in the 32nd Annual Philadelphia Bar Association 5K Run/Walk!
All proceeds benefit our kids, so grab your favorite running shoes and start training now. Or, sign up your family for the 5K Family Walk. Child-friendly activities are offered all morning, including face painting and balloon animals by B101.
Bring your youngsters for the Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Kids’ Dash!
Children ages 5-10 will love running in this FREE, 200-yard non-competitive Dash! The Kids’ Dash begins immediately after the Run/Walk. All participants will receive a Race give-a-way. Although this is a free Dash, participants must register online.
Need to psych yourself up to run? Let attorney Maureen Farrell tell you how.
Design your own Race Pledge Page! When you register for a FREE active.com account, you can create an online Race Pledge Page to allow friends and family to easily sponsor you. Or, you can create a Race Pledge Page through the Facebook feature, FundRazer. All participants who collect more than $250 in pledges
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Race Updates Caesar Rivise Bernstein Cohen & Pokotilow Team Competition For an application contact Michael Berkowitz or call him at 215-567-2010 (ext 132). Deadline for team registration is May 6.
Neill Clark Challenge
Win with Philadelphia Runner!
Packet pick up:
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Pick-Up| featured client & volunteer |
Two Continents! One Heart! 
It starts off like a dreadful nightly news story that happens in other places in the world to people we’ll never know. A warring African tribe attacks a neighboring tribe. In the hostilities, 17-year-old “Taban” is badly hurt, and family members are seriously injured or killed. Anxious for Taban’s survival and unable to care for him, Taban’s family scrapes together the funds to pay for the youth’s passage to the United States. With minimal English language skills, Taban arrives without a passport or papers of any kind, unable to tell his story.
| legal update by Marguerite C. Gualtieri, Esq., Managing Attorney |
Is Open Adoption coming to Pennsylvania?
The face of the modern family has been changing for decades. Today, single parents are heading up families, grandparents are raising grandchildren, adult siblings are caring for younger brothers and sisters, and gay and lesbian couples are parenting children.
Adoption, the process by which new family ties are legally forged, has had a significant role in changing the modern family. By no means new, adoption legislation was first passed in Massachusetts in 1851. The Adoption History Project offers a brief history of adoption, as well as other topics of interest for further study.
What is new in adoption in the state of Pennsylvania relates to the voluntary agreements by which adopted children can maintain ongoing contact or communication with identified members of their birth families. These agreements are soon to be legally enforceable in certain situations. On October 27, 2010, Governor Rendell signed Act 101 of 2010 into law. Act 101 is an amendment to the Adoption Act (23 Pa.C.S. Domestic Relations Chapters 21-29) and will become effective on April 25, 2011. This new law addresses not only the means by which children can maintain beneficial relationships with biological relatives, but also the broad issue of how adoptees can access medical and social history information and records related to their adoption.
| chris' corner by M. Christine Kenty, PhD, Dir. of Research and Evaluation |
Fulfilling our mission – one child at a time!
Dr. Kenty is Child Advocates' Director of Research and Evaluation. As part of the Administrative Team, she structures and maintains client and programmatic data systems and program evaluations to inform best practices and to meet funders' data requirements. Chris is a key staffer to the National Children's Law Network, coordinating with national partners to design the multi-site outcomes database. |
The vast majority of Child Advocates’ children come to us because they lack a permanent, nurturing home environment. Over the last three years, we hit the mark in more than 90% of the cases we closed, offering these children safe, stable homes—sometimes for the first time in their young lives! We are proud to have delivered so consistently! Still, there is more to be done.
New Faces on our Leadership Council!
We are delighted and honored to welcome to our Leadership Council two wonderful new members whose names you know well: former Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham, partner at Archer & Greiner, and pro hockey player Darroll Powe, Center (#36) for our beloved Philadelphia Flyers. Ms. Abraham and Mr. Powe join a skillful and esteemed group of individuals who serve as an advisory group to Child Advocates and provide consultation on our efforts. We are deeply indebted to our Leadership Council and to our amazing Board of Directors who, under the leadership of Board President Len Bernstein of Reed Smith, are—in a word—unstoppable in their hard work and love for our children. We love them back!
Staff Changes
Big changes on our ace Development Team, headed by Moira Mulroney who joined us in June 2010! Moira is an attorney with years of development experience at WXPN and the Philadelphia Zoo. She also worked as Assistant District Attorney in the Legislation Unit of the Office of the District Attorney in Philadelphia.
We are sad to say good-bye to Development Officers Kristyn DiDominick and Pattie Bongiovanni who have left Child Advocates to pursue new ventures. Kristyn will be heading up development efforts at Manna on Main Street in Lansdale, PA. Pattie’s fantastic import company, BeiPiatti, offers “beautiful plates and other wonderful things,” all of them handmade in Italy. We miss these fine, creative staff members who have served us well and wish them the very best.
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